Scouts

After months of planning, we finally had the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet.  I think it went very well.  It was held in the School’s Gym.  Michelle did a great job with the decorations and the guest list.  We had a great turn out!  Over 180 people! 

Maxwell had invited the Mayor when he met him at the Mayor’s Youth Commission dinner.  To our surprise, the Mayor came.  It was very cool of him, the boys thought it was pretty neat that the Mayor came to their Blue and gold banquet.

There were some awesome skits done by the boys and almost everyone received their advancement awards.  It was a very good banquet.  Now we can focus our attention to the Pinewood Derby!

Back to 24 hours of Scouts at our house! 

I have been back at work for a week now, and have finally rested from all the Cub Scout activity. After having a very nice “4th of July” with the family, I had a week at Camp Oh-Da-Ko-Ta with thirteen (13) Cub Scouts. This year’s camp went very well; the kids did a great job of staying focused and getting to their activities. The favorite activity, like most years, was of course: BB guns, followed by the close second: lunch.

After a week of ‘day’ camp with the younger boys, we got to camp out with the older Webelos at resident camp. The program is very similar to the day camp with more advanced activities for the older boys. (Like boats and cub cars). We got some rain the first night, but the weather was not that bad the rest of the weekend. Max and his friend set up his tent all by themselves, I was very impressed. I was even more impressed that it did not leak after the rainy first night.

I had a very good time. I sure hope all the kids did too.

See some pictures here:
http://pack567.smugmug.com

Seems that all our Cub Scout camping trips are on "bad weather days." Our spring family campout was no exception.

We arrived at 8:00a to a half flooded campsite; the part that was not flooded was grassy but soggy. We set up our tents in a relatively dry area and then the rain came. It pretty much rained all day.

The weather forecast had the temp dropping in the thirties for night time so we reluctantly cried "uncle" and packed up the gear. Of course, after the car was loaded the sun came out and the sky cleared up. We had already committed to aborting so we did not stay overnight, but we did have a nice campfire before we departed.

Last night we took the Cub Scouts to the library to watch Truly Remarkable Loon. A comedy juggler. The kids really had a great time, except now they want to juggle things.

I spent last weekend in full scout uniform, singing songs, and playing games. The weird thing was: I was not with my son or any other kids. I was attending Wood Badge. What is Wood Badge? Unless you are an avid adult Scouter, you probably do not know what Wood Badge is.