Scout Camp - Day Four

Eli went white water rafting in kayaks yesterday over some class three rapids and did very well. He also took third in the camp climb off. Braden and Asa swam a mile this morning in the camp lake completing the last part of their mile swim. Right now they are cleaning up merit badges and finishing off the hanging requirements so that Friday can be just a fun day. Asa is supposed to go on a trail ride as part of his horsemanship badge. Other than that the facial hari is getting thicker and the smells from the boys is getting riper and riper.

Day three - scout camp at hump day

Well, day three is down and we are still standing. Eli went white water rafting while Braden and Asa kept rocking away at the merit badges. Braden and Asa have the mile swim in the morning and I am hoping both boys do well. It got down a little cooler last night and it was really hard to get the boys out of their cots as they werew all in deep rem sleep. But, man o man do they smell!

Scout Camp - Day Two

Well, day two went well so far. Yesterday after I posted our update Braden competed and won the lunchtime climbing challenge much to the roar of delight from his troop. The three boys are staying really busy with their activities here at camp, tomorrow Eli actually is going two hours south of camp to go whitewater rafting with the scout camp as part of his older scouts program. I went on a hike today with four other dads, ten miles up into the mountains and back round trip with no bad side effects. No injuries thus far. But then again, it is only day two.

Day one from Hale Scout Camp

Hey guys, they have wifi in the adult training center, which sounds so much better than the dark cave where the parents all hide during the heat of the day. Just wanted to let you folks know what was going on with the three amigos here at camp. Asa and Braden have decided to do the mile swim and left this morning at 0600 to start the training. Eli is doing an outward adventure program for the older scouts that will involve whitewater rafting, overnight hikes to rustic campsites (read in dump in woods here) and fly fishing. Asa has signed up for

Snow Sports (they ski on astroturf in Oklahoma, maybe the stereotypes are right)
Horsemanship
Canoeing
Archery

Braden has signed up for

Snow Sports (see note above)
Canoeing
Fly Fishing
Motorboating

I've tried to sign up for reading books and staying in shade we'll see how that goes. Check back in tomorrow and we'll try to update. Sorry no pics, the wifi will not support uploading.

Book of the Bizarre Chapter one, section one.

{By request of She who must be obeyed, here is my latest spark of insanity. enjoy}

If I was a Bug I'd be a Butterfly! If I was an explosion I'd be a firework! If I was an element I'd be fire! If I was a bird I'd be a Pheniox!

So what am I?

A PHIREWORK BUTTERFLY!!!!

They live for about 6 months then explode into tinny fireworks. But don't worry, they rise again from the *ahem* ashes. this can reproduce at lest 6 more little butterflies. They're from any where to the size of a newborn hand to an adults hand.

They like to eat dew, nectar, raw flame, and taffy. and if you get a lot of them to fly by at one it sounds like sparklers.

The best way to find one is to have a campfire cook out, the flame and smell of smores will attract many of the sparkling bugs. Be sure to have a clean jam jar with holes punched in the lid to catch one. (If you really stink at catching put a bit of taffy in the jar and wait.)

Their natural predators are flying monkeys and jackalopes, and they live just about every where out side of a 10,000 mile radius of the poler circles, concentrated in China, New Zealand, Ireland, Narnia, USA, Italy, Moscow, Middle Earth and England. They migrate through flying, wardrobes, rabbit holes, and looking glasses.

They also build nests like birds to sleep in out of string, spider silk, leaves, and grass, usawly found in dry places

First discovered by Jack F. Thaddeus in New Zealand on July 18, 1801, when one made a nest in his toy-chest. He promptly caught the bug putting it in a jam jar and fed his new pet taffy till the sad day at the end of 'Racers' life, upon witch he was baurried under the sandbox in the back yard in his favorite jam jar.

Since little Jack the Phirework Butterfly has sparked a Roman candle in the Zoology/ Biology and general world of research. Could these little critters hold the cure for cancer? an end to the energy crisis? The answer to where that little sibling disappears to for hours on end? Maybe even why jimmy cracks corn when no one cares.

Only time will tell.