This year Troop 66 went to Philadelphia for America’s 250th birthday coming up in July. We camped at Pine Hill Scout Reservation in New Jersey and drove to the city each day. We did lots of fun things.
Photo by Nate Prusi
Troop 66 Scouts ventured around historic Philadelphia in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Pictured in front of Independence Hall L-R: Sawyer Prusi, Nathan Prusi, Graham Marcavitch, Jack LaFreniere, Blake Matlach, Alex Richter and Dean Prusi.
On the first day we went to Independence Hall where the king and queen of the Netherlands were also visiting. Unfortunately, we did not get a picture with them, but some people saw them. We also went to the Liberty Bell. After that we kind of walked around the city and saw lots of historic stuff like Benjamin Franklin’s house and grave, the first bank in the U.S.A., Tun Tavern (the birthplace of the Marine Corps) and more. We also went to a baseball game, the Phillies vs. Cubs, and some of us even got on the jumbo-tron.
The next day we did some Urban Navigation and did an Amazing Race. We were split into groups and were given papers with clues of historic places that we had visited the day before. We had to navigate to those places and do activities like answer questions about the U.S.A. and stuff like that. After solving the clues at each stop, we would get clues for the next location we had to find. We’ll find out the winner at our June Court of Honor. We also went to two competing cheese-steak places (Pat and Geno’s) to decide which was better. The troop was split on which one was better.
The next day we went to the famous Rocky Steps. They are outside the Museum of Art. We all ran up the steps and took some pictures. Then we went to the zoo where there were tons of different animals like tigers, snakes, eagles and more. After that, Scouts went back to camp and hung out. On the last day we were on our way back and stopped by the Statue of Liberty and went all the way to the crown.
Troop 66 is excited to announce that we are now a hybrid troop, which means girls can now experience scouting through Troop 66.
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