Starting Over

I started a post this morning at 6:45, but then got distracted with the days events and put my Blackberry in my pocket. Somehow, I deleted the hour's worth of typing I did about Monday, so I guess I'll have to start over.
First, let me say something about haircuts. We have a saying up here; "the differance between a good hair cut and a bad haircut is two weeks". Several years ago, a couple of the older scout started giving each other mohawks and other "unique" hair cuts at camp (go back and look at previous year's pictures). The younger scouts look up to the older scouts, so naturally thay have started asking to get haircuts. There have been some pretty interesting designs; diamonds, hearts, double mohawks, and other designs. You can see some of these on the website. They did refuse to give any of the first year scouts a hair cut (for fear or reprisals), but figured that parents of second year and up would know about this from previous years. Worst case, buzz cuts are in. I hope you have as much fun looking at the pictures as the kids had getting them.
Back to Monday morning; it was typical in that the food came at 6:30, Wayne gave us a tray of Granny' caramel rolls and the scouts were mostly on time due to the very simple cold cereal breakfast. The scouts had three hours of their new second week merit badges and came back to camp about 11:30 for lunch.
After lunch, Alec D, Ben O, Adam H, and AJ headed off to C.O.P.E. at Flintlock. This is a teambuilding and leadership course that ends in the high rope course and zip line you see in all of the Many Point videos. The course is eight hours long.
While they were at Flintlock, the rest of the troop had troop activities including Ethics in Action, Volleyball, and Turks Head Knot tying (a new one for us).
Then it was back to camp for dinner. After dinner, it was freetime, including Troop 346 time in the Sauna. The sauna is a shack down by the beach with a wood fired stove. Very traditional. Some of the guys got to use it Saturday night too, after the staff used it.
Then at 9, the scouts came back to camp and played RISK (the board game) and 500. These have been very popular past times Sunday and Monday night, but are resulting in tired scouts in the morning and a cranky acting Scout Master who has to use ear plugs to get to sleep.
I'm going to close it out here at the close of Monday, so I don' loose work again. It's about 8:45 some scouts are drifting back in from freetime, some are building the fire for tomorrow night, and four scouts (Alex H, Jonathan, Hunter, and Trevor) are headed out to sleep in the shelters they built for the Wilderness Survival merit badge.
That's all for now from Ft. Bill at Many Point Scout Camp. YIS...Jon Yearous