Posted by Admin | Posted in Camp 2009 | Posted on 19-07-2009
Well, it’s all over now…..
We’ve had our final campfire, and we’re all a little bit down.
We had a lot of rain yesterday & it continued through the night. Happily though, this morning proved much better.
After allowing the tentage time to dry, we arranged with Kandersteg Centre that we could stay in rooms tonight. This meant we could get down all our tents etc & pack them away for shipping back home.
In the afternoon, we went swimming which was great & then went to Des Alpes, a local restaurant, for a nice group meal of Pizza & Ice Creams.
When we got back to site, we had our tradidiontal end of camp campfire. This proved really great with contributions from leaders, Scouts & some of our new friends, like Neil & Johnny.
We presented various prizes, such as the Camp Log, Competition Dinner, Champ of Camp, Daily Inspections & of course the overall Camp Inter Patrol Competition Dinner. While we didn’t risk bringing the John Slye perpetual trophy to Switzerland with us, we look forward to presenting this to the winning patrol at a later stage.
As a final surprise, John & Veronica Brennan presented the group with a new trophy – “The Kanderman”. This is a really nice wood carving of a Scout. Their wish is that it would be a perpetual trophy for those who go to camp. We’ll sort out the details at a later stage.
That’s about it! It’s now about 12:30am in the Chalet in Kandersteg & all is quiet! Everyone is fairly tired at this stage. We’ll sign off & hopefully post again tomorrow. If not – when we’re home on Tuesday.