We'll start with Blake's Cub Scout campout. We camped out at Silver Lake in Highland. It was fun though the campfire on Friday night started a little late for our two early-to-beds. Drew fell asleep on my lap at the fire, and Blake was ready to go -- right after he had a marshmallow. Only one other Tiger Scout came from Blake's den. Jop is from the Netherlands and is living in Edwardsville while his Dad works for a year in the states.
Here's Jop and Blake eating their Candy Cannon loot:
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The highlight for Scott and I was when Blake tried a pine needle. This man named Luther who is very involved with the Scouts conducted a nature tour on Saturday. This guy knows EVERYTHING about nature. Anyway, he was telling us this story of some pilot in Bosnia that survived on grass and leaves and other things. He also told us that if we had to survive, pine needles were edible. So Blake decided to try one.
Here's his reaction:
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The kid won't try carrots, green beans or broccoli (pretty much anything green), but he'll try pine needles! Go figure. Next time I serve him his chicken nuggets, he's getting a side of pine needles. Apparently, he likes the White Pine variety.
The highlight for the kids by far was the Candy Cannon. One of the scout leaders wrapped up gobs of candy in some newspaper, shoved it in a pipe with some gunpowder in it, and out blasted the candy. The kids loved it. Be sure to listen this video with the sound because the guy's pretty funny, dragging it out and getting the kids into a frenzy. "Did I tell you about the candy coming out of the cannon and going up ... oh, I did."
"Just fire it!" You have to watch it in two takes.
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Oh, YEAH, that was awesome! When I used to camp with my family, they knew a guy who would fly over the campground and throw candy out of the plane! (This looks much easier to find.)
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