I went camping this weekend. It was a leader training campout called OLSI. Outdoor leader skills instruction. We had a blast. The weather was great, overcast on Saturday and sunny on Sunday. There were eight of us in the class. Myself (as a troop committee member), Deeann (an asst scoutmaster from my Troop), Edwin (a scoutmaster from Ft myers), Brian (an asst scoutmaster), John (a scoutmaster), Dave (a cubmaster), Lynn (a webelos leader), and Lois (lynns asst webelos leader). We learned a whole heck of a lot of stuff! Cooking, first aid (from a real Dr), map and compass, hiking and backpacking, nature study, lashing, knots, campfire, and meal planning.

Funny thing was that we had a little issue about bananas. Go figure. We had to write out our menu and hand a shopping list to our "senior scoutmaster" so he can go buy our food. Well instead of two "bunches" of bananas he only wrote down two bananas. So all we got was two bananas.
I dont know how bananas keep getting brought up on these campouts. The last time it was on summer camp in NC. Lots of banana talk there. And before that was when my son was a webelos and the Troop took the Webelos to a camporee and there was a mixture of a couple of patrols...they ended up calling themselves the banana patrol.

Weird!

We put on a big campfire and did the skits and songs for it too. The fire was so big that after our skits we had to knock it down a notch. Bad planning on our part. Oh well. We had fun practicing the skits. Our group of eight really bonded well.
There was one time when Brian was late coming to one of the classes...well after that Brian could have been sitting in front of you and you still asked "where's Brian?"
Another thing that was so funny was Lois calling Ken a "senior scoutmaster" as in "old". She got "Senior patrol leader" and "scoutmaster" confused! Everyone loved that (except for Ken).

Anyway, fun was had by all and we learnt alot!

Now I'm really Woodbadge bound!