An Awesome Weekend!!!

Our annual Cornfest campout was held at the Umatilla Elks Youth Camp this weekend, and it was a blast!!! Swimming, slip n' slide, archery, pumpkin carving, painting the totem pole, good food, great weather, and a visit from Kiowa alumni Brad Logan - it just doesn't get any better than this!!! Thanks to all for coming out to enjoy this fun weekend! Check out the pictures:

Our Next Campout

The next campout will be at Doe Lake Recreational Area November 14-16. The feature event at this campout will be the Eola Federation annual Pinewood Derby, so start working on your cars now! You can buy pinewood block or precut kits at Colonial Photo & Hobby store, or, order kits and a wide assortment of parts from Maximum Velocity.com. The rules are pretty simple - maximum 5 ounce weight limit and no motors!

Yatahey

Chief Bald Eagle

I Always Wanted To Be An Indian

Our presentation to the K and 1st graders this morning went great! I was amazed how quiet and mesmerized the kids became when i started speaking to them - they were hypnotized!! (now I know how Barack Obama feels when he addresses the masses...); maybe I'll try wearing an Indian headress at home so my kid will listen to me better!

Anyway it was short and sweet, but a lot of kids were saying "I wanna go!!!" by the time we were done, so maybe we'll get a couple interested parents - we'll see!

Thanks again to Roy Smith and Sue Beemer - definitely could not have done it without your help this morning, and thanks Tedi for the great design for the flyer!!!

As you (hopefully) can see, I got a wild hair and created this blog the other night; it should notify each of you automatically whenever I post to it - make sure you read the first post - I don't think it got out to everyone. I will be attempting to add a photo album feature over the weekend. I'm thinking that we can use the website, perhaps, as a photo archive, and I will use this blog more for current events. Haven't really figured it all out yet. I also put the current weather on the main page, and my intent is to change that for each campout to the location where we will be camping.

Have a great weekend!!!

Yatahey!!!
Chief Bald Eagle

Let's Blog!

Sunset at Cornfest 2007

Greetings Mighty Kiowa

Just recently discovered from Brad Logan how easy it is to create a blog, so I figured I'd try it out. Maybe I can use this sort of like a newsletter after each of the campouts - we'll see how it goes!

I'm looking forward to our first campout of the season and hope you are too! We will be camping in Umatilla at the Elks Youth facility - I always enjoy going there. Mark Marshall is setting up the kids for archery, and it should be a great time!

Yatahey!!!

Chief Bald Eagle