Dec 06 2009
Scouting into December
I often find it ironic that while I was a girl scout for about 36 seconds, and the Mr. was a boy scout for just a little longer than that, that we have been involved scouting parents for … what … 12 years? Something like that. Seems like we’re almost always involved in some scouting activity or another, and this week was no different.
The girl scout troop is starting to ramp up for GS cookie sales. That’s right – it’s almost time for the annual stock-up of Thin Mints and Samoas! Bonnie and the girls in her troop spent this week’s meeting practicing how to approach people about cookies, and deciding where they were going to donate their Gift of Caring boxes, and if they wanted to donate some of their profits (they do!).
While the girl scouts are working on that, Clyde and some members of his boy scout troop went on a two-night polar bear campout.
It doesn’t have to snow to qualify to be a polar bear campout, just be cold enough, but they got snow, as an added bonus. They did some geocaching, hiked a battlefield, and learned that if you don’t brush snow off a tent, it will eventually collapse. A good time was had by all, but I know they’re glad to be back home and will sleep well in their warm beds tonight.
