Fort Schools Have Come to an End

Saturday was the final day of the Fort schools.
Quite warm that day, I went in civies and took pictures.
Here are some I got that day. :)

Bringing out supplies for the dinner picnic :)

Resting under the tree of our Brigade camp expodition

The Engage chatting

Hoop & Stick!

Learning about the Garden!

Break time!

And then we played tag!

I'm really excited I was able to capture this motion shot! :D

Tag!

Sam! One of my favorite volunteers!

Nat! My other favorite volunteer! He's such a character!

We have our first event of the season this Saturday!
If anyone is free, the event is from 10-3pm June 9th. Across from Pearson Air Museum on 5th street at Fort Vancouver. :)

Fall is here!

And it still gets too warm in the afternoon's on most days for me to wear sweaters.... 😑
But hey, as long as the sun stays out, I won't complain!

This past Saturday we had our Summer's End Promenade.
It was so fun!! We had more people attend in costume then ever before that I can remember, and had more guys there in costume than ever before!
Which is great because we need them there otherwise those great outfits don't get to be shown off!

I'm ashamed to say that even after planning, leaving early to get down there... I forgot my camera!!
Ahhhh! That was the whole reason we wanted to get there 1 1/2 hrs early!!
Oh well, I was able to help some of the ladies with their hair, and do some others things.

I did get to get pictures with my phone, which I'm glad I got a new one with a better camera than my last phone....
The group shots turned out almost as nice as my camera, but the single shots were a little eh.

So I shall share pictures from the era's we had.

Here you shall start in the 1840's and go forward by decade (except we didn't have any 1850's) until you reach our final era of the 1940's.
Isn't it amazing how the styles changed over 100 years!

1840's outfits

The 1860's (the 1850's are very similar, but with bigger and rounder hoops)

The 1970's, from hoops to bustles.

1880's, still bustles, but they're getting smaller

1890's, practically no bustle left, they are more of a roll seated at the top of the hips.

And now we start into the Anne of Green Gables era, the early 1900's!

The 19 teens, these outfits are all from 1917, 100 years ago this year!! The boy-scout uniform is in the front. :)

The Roaring 1920's

The 1930's

And the 1940's! This era seemed to be the most popular this year!

 And then of course we had to get all the guys together for a guys only picture!

Only missing 1 of the guys! we had 18 guys this year!! Yay for all the outfits they got to show off!! :D

And now we are on break for the main events until Christmas at the fort on Dec. 9th.
We do have the schools to prepare for, including going over and accepting applicants this weekend.

Then we have the 2 orientations for those new students where us adults and 2nd year+ students show them the do's and don't of how to interpret and they get a "what to expect" from the leaders of the schools. :)

So how's your Fall going so far?
Hope studying is going well for those who are in school or collage. :)

Fort Schools Have Come to an End, For This Year....

So since I forgot to do a post yesterday, I shall do one today. :)

This past week went kinda slow as my family all had the cold. No fun.
On Thursday I went to my first First Aid/CPR training and am now certified! (for a few things)

Today was the Fort Vancouver  Schools Graduation/Moving-Up ceremony.
In the morning we had a "Scavenger Hunt", but another way to describe it is a question trivia. :)
We split the teams up into 5 groups, and sent them off to 7 buildings, they had to answer a list of questions at each location, and then guess what the next building they were going to was based on the last couple questions.
They all seemed to really like it!
I got a few pictures to share with you all too. :)

Some students from one team hurrying to the next destination!

One of the questions was demonstrate how to lead a visually impaired individual up and down stairs

'Team E' in the Counting House, they actually won with 107 correct answers!! :D

Here's the whole group (minus one) who did the Scavenger Hunt!

Then after the game was over, everyone head over the the Pearson Air Museum Hanger for the potluck, graduation and dancing afterwards.
Here are some photo's from that. :)

Quite a few student graduates sitting in a circle inside for lunch, that circle kept getting bigger and bigger!!

Lined up for dancing!

So the whole day went well and everyone had lots of fun!
I'm so glad they all liked the game and it seemed to go well! Maybe we'll do it again next year! :D

We also had a baby goat born this week!

Calla Lily, isn't she cute?!

Maybe next week I can post pictures of my friends new baby if I get to go see her. :)

Hope you all had a great week!