Pack 88 Campout

This has been a busy weekend.  Landon and I just returned from the Cub Scout camp-out held on the soccer field of Concordia school.  There were about 100 families camping together and it can only be described as organized chaos!  Landon is in Den 11 with 9 other scouts.  His leader is Mr. Martin -Leung and I am sort of an assistant which basically means that I am in charge of trying to keep order while Martin leads the activities.  During the last few weeks Landon earned his Bobcat badge and received it during the awards ceremony around the campfire.  His den acted out a skit called The Ipod Cub Scout in which I got to star as the annoyed Ipod Cub Scout owner.  The boys did a great job and the rest of the evening you could hear various scouts from other dens reciting lines from the skit.  Dinner was an assortment of BBQ'd hotdogs, hamburgers, veggies and corn on the cob!  The evening wouldn't be complete without S'mores which was quite the production as you can imagine with 100s of kids all trying to roast marshmallows over two small fire pits.  Landon also earned his Wood Chip badge and kinfe safety award during the camp-out.  They learned how to properly handle a pocket knife and even got to carve their own arrowhead out of a bar of soap which actually accomplished two things knife handling and hand cleaning!  I got to meet quite a few other dads while the kids played and participated in activities.  We broke camp by 9am on Sunday morning and now we are getting ready to head to Landon's first official football game.  Following the game we will head to church then attend a meeting for a mission trip to Anhui province and then out to dinner with another family from church - whew!  I can't wait to get back to work just to get some rest!