Yorktown Trip: Scavenger Hunt

After our trip to Fort Sumter, we took part in a scavenger hunt. There were several parts to this hunt and it included not only the USS Yorktown, but also all of the other three ships at Patriots Point. There was a sheet with questions about each vessel and the answers were on all in the information plaques on each one. Our Pack Master split us up by dens and gave us each a vessel to search. The webelos broke up into their groups (Webelos I and Webelos II) to do the search on the Yorktown. The bears took the Destroyer (Laffey DD-724), the wolves took the Coast Guard Cutter (Ingham WHEC-35), and the tigers took the submarine (Clamagore SS-343). There was a contest to see who out of the groups (there were about 8 other groups staying on the Yorktown) could complete their scavenger hunt with the greatest amount of correct answers. It was fun to see the boys looking for the information. After we completed our answers for the Clamagore we went to tour the others. When we got to the Laffey we noticed that the bears had two questions that they could not find the answers. When I started to help my elder son look around, I had no idea he would take me around that ship about five or six times! Boy, did I learn how to take the stairs quickly just to keep up with several 9 year olds! It was fun, though. Then after that Joe took our younger son back to the Yorktown while I (along with the torturous elder son) went to the Coast Guard Cutter. He took me around that thing about as many times as we went around the Destroyer. I was just about worn out! Thank goodness he was starting to wear out as well! We then headed back to the Yorktown to meet up with the rest of our family. Later on that evening we learned that our Pack won the Scavenger hunt! We were all very happy to hear that.