The Weekend was a blurr

I spent the weekend at a Scouting Outing - and for the uninitiated - that's where about 1600 scouts from all over the state converge at a hockey game...

...but first - there was a waterpark party to make sure everyone was good and tired before we even got to the game...

...The Man-Cub loved this vortex - me - not so much...
... the lighter you are....
...the more times you go around...
...and around...
...and around...
...whoops almost went in that time... Whew...
...one more time around - if that's your goal - and for the Man-Cub it is...
and then finally - down the chute...

and out the other side...
This was our hut...
the Man-Cub - left front row - waiting for the huge deluge of water to come pouring down from the top...

He's sitting in the middle now as the water falls...
...Shooting the water cannons - they shoot a long way and many an unspecting passerby was 'hit'...
Then we went to the game room to waste some money...

....and 'buy' some 'junk' with our 504 tickets...

Then on to the hockey game...
...the first goal of the evening - UND led for most of the game but lost in the third period after trying what I thought was a strange tactic - they kept the goalie off the ice so they could field an extra player and lost two points as UNH immediately scored on the undefended goal - weird...
...zamboni machines - with cub scouts riding...
game over - final score - UND=4 UNH=7
Then after listening to a lecture about what we could and couldn't do - we skated for 1 1/2 hours on the olympic ice.
This is the blind leading the blind as one of our cubs asked me to 'teach' him to skate - this is really funny because I can barely skate myself...
The Man-Cub however - flies across the ice...

After another 1 and 1/2 hours of skating on the hockey arena ice with movies playing overhead - they sounded the bell at 1:45 AM for us to find our campsites - our assigned space was behind the bleachers...
....there are about 1000 scouts spread out across the floor...

Lights out was at 2:00 AM but it was at least 3:30 before everyone settled down and went to sleep. Lights on was at 7:00 - I really need more sleep than that - but I had packed us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for breakie (we're scouts so we were prepared) and a thermos of teeccino and we hit the road - I think most of the boys slept all the way home...