Tuesday, January 24, 2006

HAPPY 100TH POST

This is my 100th post, boys and girls! I know it seems as though it was only yesterday that I started this pathetic little journal. But lo and behold I tell no lies. So I will grace this post with the very thing I started it with. Complete and utter, absolute nonsence that will mean nothing to you as a person! Glad I can help, now onward with the stupidness...

I went camping this weekend as I warned you I would. We did have one boy who cancelled but there were five others that had a blast of a weekend. We set up camp at Caloosahatchee Regional Park on Saturday morning. We were catererd by the Boy Scout troop. They cooked us hambergers and mac and cheese for lunch on Saturday after we set up our tents. They got there on Friday night. After lunch we did a three (yes I said three) mile hike on some wonderful trails. After the hike the boys did some fire building and then the acting Scoutmaster, Jim, had them help with preparing dinner. They cut vegtables and even made a cake in a dutch over. Peach Cobbler. The rest of the day was really fun, the boys played football and capture the ball. (we used to call it smear the queer but changed the name) There was another Cub Scout pack camping next to us and all of those boys found their way to our campsite to play ball too. Must have been a good 25 kids playing. We had dinner which was I guess a roast beef stew that cooked all day, yum! After dinner we had a campfire. We had a contest between the four Boy Scouts and the five Cub Scouts to see who could come up with the best skit. The cub Scouts went first. Then the Boy Scouts. The adults voted and decided that the Cub Scouts won, yeah! Then to our surprise they wanted to do another skit. So we let them and then the B S did another. After that, the C S did at least five more skits on their own. They even had special effects with lighting (they used a flashlight and said it was a meteor). This all lasted till about 9 o'clock and then they started hunting for wood for the fire. We ended up having a bonfire (really big) and at 9:30 they were told to settle down and lights out was at 10pm.
Sleeping was good and when we got up the cubs cracked the eggs and we had scrambled eggs and biskits for breakfast. Then we packed up our tents and started for home. All in all I think that it was one of the better campouts we've been on. All the kids were well behaved and the mosquitoes weren't too bad. The boys earned their Outdoorsman Badges and none of my cubs got hurt. (one of the boy scouts kept falling over everything and he got something in his eye but nothing serious)

Ok I think I rambled on enough about camping. I do want to mention that Rick is out of jail. I had hoped it wasn't true but it is. His step-dad called me to inform me about it. He also mentioned that Rick wanted to know if I would take the child support enforcement off him. So that he could pay me directly he says. As if! He must be crazy, as a matter of fact I think I will call child support to let them know he's out. Bye!

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