2010 Jamboree Troop 619/620

Day 4

2010-07-29T19:49:00.000-07:00

Today was cold, damp, humid, and for the mostly cloudy. Now I'm not talking the good kind of clouds, the ones that carry meatballs, nope these are the ones that carry angry lightning bolts and downpours of the leaky faucets of Zeus and Hera. Alex Murray and I got stuck inside the tents at merit badge midway because of the storm and were stuck in those tents for 30 minutes without any contact from our camp. We finally got back and everything was better back at camp than back at the Midway, so we spent the rest of the day here because everything else was closed do to the rain and downpours that occurred during the night. Alex and I did end up finishing our genealogy merit badges after finding the correct information. Plus we got a cool patch for finishing it and we got a cool patch for going to a bunch of stations at the OA village. Hopefully my computer will be charged enough to do day 5 see ya then.

See ya,
Brandon

Day 3

2010-07-29T19:43:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Today was a very early morning for everyone, we al had to wake up at around 5:30 to get breakfast so that we could all eat before the 7:15 call to go to the 9:00 arena show. The arena show was great, lots of famous people were there and they all had great speeches about the Boy Scouts of America and how we influence lives. I went around with another group of people today, and we went through the American Indian Villiage, where we tried to earn a patch. We also tried our hands at the geneaology merit badge, which we got about half of it done, the other half required us to ask our parents about our family hostory, like the maiden names of our grandparents, and the names of our great-grandparents. We had our first code black today, which means don't do anything, stay hydrated, and keep cool. Thats it for today.

See ya,
Brandon

Jamboree Day 2

2010-07-29T19:32:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Sorry its been so long, I never got a chance to post anything because my computer ran out of battery about the second day so I never got to post anything. First actual day being able to go around camp and explore the different areas around camp. I, along with Alex explored many great areas. Such as the great action alley, which looks like it has some great activities like rapelling, BMX biking (which looks really awesome), and archery. We also toured some of the national exhibits and looked at some of the cool international camps that they have around the world. We then went to the American Indian Villiage (the OA area) where we learned about painful ways of injecting medicine, cool tribal dances, and different games the Indians play. Thats all I got for day 2 see ya on day 3.

See ya,
Brandon

Jamboree day 1

2010-07-26T19:27:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Today was a very hectic day! We had to set up everything from tents to dining flies to our entire gateway (I will post pictures of this later). Very hot and humid here can't wait for the nights which should cool down, and then we have to wake up at 5:30 IN THE MORNING!The cots are very nice as are the stoves, meals, and all of the staff that are working here. I am going to go find everything tomorrow because it took us so long to get set up that I never got a chance to look around at the different part of Fort AP Hill that we are allowed to go to and where everything is. I did find a couple of the places where my friends are from Philmont so I have to go hook up with them tomorrow so we can talk about whats happened since we met last summer. Great place, looks like there might be a lot of walking involved because this place is bigger than most of the amusement parks and even some of the National Forests that I have been to. Well go to go to bed now so I can get up early to get our bugler up to play revelry. I should be able to put something up every night because I will have WIFI here , AT&T was nice enough to give free WIFI.

See ya,
Brandon

Day 8

2010-07-26T19:19:00.001-07:00

Hello all,

Today we went to Busch Gardens, great place, like a combination of Disneyland and Great America and then add a dab of Six Flags Magic Mountain. I highly recommend this park for anyone that happens to be in the area of Williamsburg and wants to have a great time at an amusement park. I personally went on all of the water rides, and a couple of the other rides, but didn't go on any roller coasters. I know people who went on every single ride in the park in about 8 hours, going on some of the rides multiple times. The lunch and dinner in the park were fantastic, they had giant sized proportions in the dining hall, plus it was air conditioned which felt great in the 100ish degree weather. Unfortunately we had a couple of cases of dehydration but all were fine after a little bit of rest. Looking forward to going to Fort AP Hill tomorrow.

See ya,
Brandon

Day 7

2010-07-26T13:13:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Whats up, I know its been a couple of days since I last updated. It was very hard to find internet in the last hotel. Today, we went to Jamestown and Yorktown and took a couple of tours. We also went to a working glass station, which was really awesome and we got to watch the workers make the glass such as vases and bottles. The Jamestown tours took us on a tour of the Indian Village, the ships, and a fort that looked like the fort that was at the original Jamestown. We also went on a tour of Yorktown which composed of a museum tour, a tour of a farm that looked like a colonial farm, and an army camp that looked like those used during the revolutionary war.

See ya,
Brandon

Day 6

2010-07-23T20:28:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Today, we started off in the famous Gettysburg after a 2-3 hour drive the night before with a great buffet after the drive. This morning we took the battlefield trip of Gettysburg and had an amazing time, although it was quite hot. Gettysburg was just as I had remembered it from my Eight grade trip, in fact we visited many of the same sights that we had when i went in Eight Grade. Our tour guide was an amazing storyteller and was very good at relaying information to us about the Battle of Gettysburg. Afterwords, we went into the visitor center and watched a nice movie and saw an approximately 370 foot circumference watercolor painting in the visitor center with a cool presentation attached to it. Then, it was on to Williamsburg, which is where the day started to go wrong. :( . The bus the 619 was traveling on just happened to lose their air conditioning unit, so some of the scouts unfortunately started to overheat. This lead to some of the scouts (about 24) to come over to the 620 bus which suddenly became over crowed. (which none of us minded by the way) After that ride we ended up about an hour and a half late to dinner, but fortunately no one was there so we were able to get in fairly quickly. This sorta reminds me of my Eight Grade DC trip again, where we had three busses and one of them actually broke down completely so we had to all squeeze into the other two. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a better day.

See ya,
Brandon

Day 5

2010-07-23T20:21:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

I will be posting pictures later when I can get onto the Internet to post pictures. We had a great time finishing up Pennsylvania with Franklin Court, Elfreth's Alley and the Betsy Ross House. We visited quite a few amazing placing in these small areas, including a cool church that seven of the singers are buried in their graveyard. We also learned how the printing press that was used in the days of Benjamin Fanklin worked. After that we visited Valley Forge and took a small but very informative tour of the surrounding battlefield/encampment. Thats it for day five so I'll post day six later.

See ya,
Brandon

Day 4 part 1

2010-07-21T19:56:00.001-07:00

Hi again everyone,

This may be the ONLY post that I am putting up on this trip that actually goes up the day we toured this place! We finished up New York today with the Statue of Liberty and a small look at Ground Zero. We also toured a little around Phillidelphia today, but unfortunately I forgot my camera so i will be putting those up as soon as I can get a hold of my brother's camera. I'm going to bed cause we had a late night yesterday and there was a lot of walking to do today.

Night,
Brandon

Day 3 part 2

2010-07-21T19:44:00.000-07:00

We had a great time at the UN as you can see by the awesome pictures in this set. So in New York we visited the Empire State Building, the Rockerfeller Center, and the St. Peter's church. It was great except we ended up having a very late night ending with lines that were worse than the ones in Disneyland. We literally took longer standing in lines than we did up at the top of the Empire State Building.

Enjoy,
Brandon

Day 3 part 1

2010-07-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,
We toured NEW YORK on our 3rd day of Jamboree. Unfortunately i did not have an internet connetion (as was mentioned in the last post) so I did not get to upload these pictures. We have all be hiaving fun, although it was a very late night and we were all tired from too much walking around the area and because we had an early start.

Day 2 part 2

2010-07-21T19:05:00.000-07:00

Here are the rest of the pictures from the other day, sorry I didn't get them up earlier, we had a late night that night and I couldnt get all the pictures from that day up. Also we didnt have good internet connection yesterday so I couldn't upload anything.

Day 2 part 1

2010-07-19T19:01:00.000-07:00

Hello all,
Today we all went on the freedom trail,which was a lot of walking. We visited graveyards, cool houses, and other awesome things. We went to Concord and Lexington and some cool battlefields while we were there.

Day 1 pictures part 2

2010-07-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

I wasnt able to fit all of the pictures in the last post so I'm putting the rest of the pictures in this post.

Day 1

2010-07-19T16:31:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone I think that everyone on the trip had a great first day here in Boston. We had a great time at Quincy Market and our hotel isn't too bad either. Sorry about not updating sooner, I couldnt get onto the internet to upload anything.

See ya later,
Brandon

T-minus 39 hours

2010-07-16T11:35:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone. I am Brandon F., Troop 620's scout scribe. Basically, this blog will be about our daily activities while we are touring and while we are at jamboree. I will also be posting pictures and videos of what we have been doing. Feel free to send comments or questions. Post them in the comments section below.