Barracks Sleepover

Once a summer the staff has a Barracks Sleepover. A couple of days ago we had our annual Sleepover which to me is a night of Thanksgiving. Not because we eat turkey or mashed potatoes and gravy but because during the night I realize how thankful I am not only to have a job in these rough economic times-but to have such a great job, and to get to work with such great people makes me very thankful.

The night started with a potluck dinner. After supper and a few board games, we headed out into the night to compete in the scavenger hunt. We split into teams for the scavenger hunt and ran around the Fort, in the dark, trying to decipher clues and find the next clue. This year however the hunt had a twist however, after finding a clue your team had to take a photograph that depicted a scene that was written on the back of the clue. In the picture below, for example we were asked us to come up with a picture that shows your team name, as we were in the cemetery our team name became "The Undertakers." The post cemetery is on the site where solders who died on at Fort Abraham Lincoln were originally buried. All of these solders have been exhumed and buried in other sites. After the scavenger hunt all of these pictures were downloaded onto a flash drive and each team talked a bit about the pictures that they had taken.

After the scavenger hunt we headed up to the Infantry Post were we told Ghost Stories about the Fort. This year quiet a few stories were told about an actual event that took place at the Fort about a week before the Sleepover when Paranormal Investigators had come out to the Fort to check to see if either the Cavalry Post buildings or the On-A-Slant Village were haunted. One of my fellow workers had gone out with the investigators in the hopes of seeing something he could not explain, he told us what he claims to have seen and heard. After the Ghost Stories we naturally went to sleep as some of us had to work the next day and three hours of sleep is better than none.