Address:

6100 Antioch Road
Haymarket, VA 20169

Saturday, September 25

1. 8:00 am (or so)    Breakfast
2. 8:45 am Leave as a group for the nearest metro station into DC
3. 10:15 am Check in at the White House – those not cleared for the tour will head on to the Smithsonian
4. 11:00am    White House Tour
5. Noon Both groups meet up at the McDonalds at the Smithsonian Air and Space for lunch (paid for by family)
6. 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Tour Air and Space Museum
7. 4:30 p.m. Metro out of the city to return to Camp Snyder. Dinner will be at Camp Snyder and we will be joining in with their Parent/Son overnighter that includes the evening catered meal and a campfire

COSTS FOR THE EVENT

White House Tour and Smithsonian: Free

Both events are free as they are public facilities. The Smithsonian does take donations and there is a gift shop, so you may not get out completely free. 

Camping – Free for Scouts and family who have sold Popcorn – you’ve paid your dues. For new families who would like to go – you can’t get into the White House at this point, but you can attend the campout. The cost is $20 per person to pay for the reduced costs per person of attending the Parent/Son overnighter and pay for the dinner on Saturday and breakfast Sunday.

Additional costs: Family dinner out on Friday night and lunch on Saturday at the Smithsonian. Also, a daily Metro pass will cost $12.50 for the day. So, each person should plan on additional costs of about $30 per person for meals and passes, plus any souvenirs you may want to pick up.

Parents,
If you are interested in learning more about scouting or you would like to help in a leadership role, please look at the following training dates. If you have any questions, please see me.

Some training can be done online and all leaders and Tiger Cub parents must have youth protection online training every two years. I will go into more detail about this in the near future.

October 23: Cub Scout Leader Specific Training in Cary:
https://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/DocDownload.aspx?orgkey=1305&id=83108

November 6: University of Scouting at Wake Tech:
https://www.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.asp?ActivityKey=835757
Online Registration on Council Calendar:
https://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/Calendar.asp?OrgKey=382

November 11: Cub Scout Leader Specific Training (Joint Sessions): Neuse River District: Must attend on 11th and 18th: flyer in progress

November 18: Cub Scout Leader Specific Training (Split Sessions): Neuse River District: Must attend on 11th and 18th: flyer in progress

January 8: Outdoor Leadership Skills for Webelos Leaders (OLS-WL): Crosswinds District: flyer in progress

Bobbi

On the Agenda:

1) Round-up. I’m getting calls and emails since the Scouts were able to get info in the schools. We have 2 tigers who came out to the open house meet and greet at the building on Sept. 28th, one new bear and I just got an email from a potential new Webelos I. I expect that we are going to grow by a few more given the interest, so we need to make sure we are prepared. I expect we’ll have several new boys there on September 14.
2) September DC Campout – we need to make sure we have all the details, schedules and food ironed out for the campout and items divvied up to make sure this goes well.
3) Popcorn. Melissa, we need to get an update as I know you will need to schedule a meeting with the boys and I’m not sure if you’ll need to do that on the 14th or just want to wait until the 28th when we get back from the campout as the campout weekend is the start of the sales.

If there is something else, please let me know and we’ll add it to the agenda.

Randy