Releasing the Pigeons

 Ty and Kyler have been totally loving their camp!  Today their names were chosen to bring home the Homing Pigeons!!!  Kyler brought home Stripes and Tyson brought home Shadow. 

 They were very clear that we had to GO STRAIGHT HOME to release them!  If we were stopping at the mall then we would release them at the mall!  :o) 

 I did ask them if they could wait long enough for me to grab the camera out of the office and they both said "Fine, but hurry!!"  (How far away do they think the office it?)

 Here is the box with the instructions

 Kyler taking his lid off

 Stripes looks around for about 3 seconds before he takes off

 There he goes

 Kyler can't wait to go to camp tomorrow to see if Stripes made it back that quickly!  (If not tomorrow he should be there before camp is over at the end of the week)

 Ty waiting for Shadow

 Shadow took his time...I thought this picture was sooo funny.  Ty just patiently put his hands in his lap and waited for Shadow to be ready!  It was about 30 seconds to a minute before he even showed his little head.

 there he is!

 and after some thought he took off too!

 Ty chose Shadow because he usually takes a little longer to get back than some of the other birds and he thought that was cool.

 Stripes circled back around well after they were both let go

there is Shadow with one last goodbye
**UPDATE**  When they got to camp the next morning both pigeons were there!!!