Boy Scout Troop 386

The campout this past weekend was a lot of fun.(Even though our campsite didn’t look like it had been mowed in forever). On Saturday we did a lot of different and fun activities on Jamboree Hill, there was first aid, water testing, shelter building, fire making, geo caching, etc. Each troop had to to do a service project around thier campsite. Ours was picking up a lot of brush and cutting down a tree to clear a path so the cars could turn around on the road. we also had OA call out for all of the boys who have showed great camping experience. If you did not get a chance to come, you really missed out. Hope I get to see you at the next one.

Today we celebrated the ultimate achievement in Scouting for five of our boys.  Daniel Griffin, Scott Hauge, Alex Mckitrick, Kyle Puckett, and Andrew Simpson held their Eagle Court of Honor.  We got to relive some of the many highlights of their scouting careers and then see them have their Eagle Award pinned on.  A highlight for me is always to have all Eagle Scouts who are present join our new Eagles in the Eagle Scout Oath.  We had about fifteen Eagles come up from the audience.  Quite impressive!  The whole event was a lot of fun and hopefully a great inspiration for some of the Life Scouts in the audience.  I know that each of them will continue to make us proud in their future endeavors.  Great job guys!

Our Venture patrol pulled off a narrow victory at the annual Iron Chef Edmond Competition. This year, each team was given about a 90 minute warning about what “secret ingredients” they had to incorporate into their meal.  The secret ingredients were: Tilapia, fresh rosemary, zucchini, bananas, and an orange. The judges were impressed by the creativity and outstanding flavor in the dishes prepared.  All patrols put forth an excellent meal.

The Venture patrol’s winning plate included a Tilapia fish taco with zucchini slaw, rosemary grilled new red potatoes, grilled zucchini and squash, and for dessert a banana-zucchini muffin with orange frosting.  Yummy!

About 25 boys from the troop and a few visitors made it out for our annual Electronics Lock-In.  This is the one time a year that we forget about the great outdoors and veg out in front of the video games all night.  Before we started up the electronics, we spent a couple of hours in the Athletic Center swimming and playing basketball.

The pizza run at around midnight and fresh hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts at 6 am finished the night off perfectly.  Sorry parents for your grumpy boys.