My dad asked me to take pictures at a scouting event last weekend:
It was a bit nippy.
I took Troop pictures of each troop as they rotated through stations. I was the only girl at Krupp that morning. It really is a shame that out of those 250 scouts there that day they were all old and married or 10 years younger and a foot shorter. Dang.
I was pretty amused by observing the boys working and talking through their tasks. Maybe I find it so funny because I didn't grow up going to scout camp. The task the boys were to perform at the station I was closest to was to build a fire to cook an egg for the Sr. Patrol leader to eat. Some of those boys ate some pretty raw eggs. Some Sr. Patrol Leaders were so dedicated that they were ready to crack the egg into their mouth when they weren't able to get their fire built up in time to cook the egg. Yuck ;p. Other troops were finished and cleaned up by seven minutes.
This boy got to eat a well-cooked egg.
At another station I was surprised to see the boys trying to start a match by chopping it with an axe. I never did see the match light up with flame. I wonder if this is an urban scout myth? ;)
Here is a totem pole right next to the t.p. Hahaha, I crack myself up. Well, I hope there was t.p. in there. I never had to go bad enough to get close enough to see.
5 comments:
Look like good pix. I hope you had fun shooting the event! Now we just need to get you shooting body building competitions or something eh?
Good pictures. I liked your tp joke. you crack me up too.
You are two fun-e. Hope you stayed warm. As I look back scouting was 1/3 learning knots, 1/3 learning to be a good citizen, and 1/3 playing with fire. Gets that pyro in us boys an outlet. Good they do it in the dead of winter, all this playing with fire for the younger scouts.
Scout camp is a mystic thing to me as well. Richard has to go to the Klondike this weekend, maybe he'll enlighten me.
Hope there's TP! ; )
Fantastic, that really is funny about the TP! HAHAHA That's a good one.
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