Joshua and Natasha: 2013

Gilwell Field

I got to go to Wood Badge this spring and had the best time of my life. Well okay so the first weekend I only blacked out 150 plus times in the 3 days. I don't remember much about it other then it was totally crazy. But everyone on staff told me that it is meant to be that way. I do remember some stuff and took some pictures. I am part of the Fox patrol. We picked up on a lot of the exercises that they had for us. We did a communication exercise that we learned to communicate with each other quickly. The staff put on a great campfire. They even had Baden-Powell come tell his story. Wow that was awesome. We shot one of our own in to space. Foxy rocked in flight. I was able to be part of the largest LDS group to go through the course we had 16 members of the church there.

Joe, Mary, Rick, (Foxy in the rocket) Justin, Chris

Natasha

Nate Barlow at the launching pad

President Cowley

Jeremy Enz

Before flight

Foxy in flight

Justin holding Foxy after flight

John Harkey (course director)

Staff Camp fire

Baden-Powell

Second weekend was a blast. I enjoyed the weekend camping and cooking all of our meals. It was not as crazy as first weekend. I did have my tickets completed so there was no worries there. I only blacked out 90 or so times too. Yeah! Fox patrol had the patrol campfire program and it was prefect. Heavenly Father surely answered my prayer. I put it together over the 4 weeks we had off. All the patrols did great. Mondays flag ceremony was a very special one they flew John Harkey's dads veterans flag from his casket over Gilwell field. It was just beautiful. His father was a course director over wood badge as well. what a neat family tradition. While waiting for our banquet lunch John came up and started to chat with Jenny and I. He gave the kids their critter until they get to go through wood badge for themselves. So Kaelobbe, Brieanna, Jonathan, and Cristian are all Boboxes and Baby #5 is a fox (just because I was 10 weeks first weekend and 14 weeks second weekend and then it will be helping me as I work on my tickets.)