Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee are survivors my fri-ends....

Well we officially survived our first Cub Scout Pack night as the leaders. This past Wednesday was our Rain gutter Regatta. For those of you that don't know what that is it is the sailboat version of the pinewood derby.... and if you don't know what the pinewood derby is.... you need help (google is great, however there are many videos on you tube that are hilarious of dad's getting into it that are much more interesting). So the cub scouts get kits out of which to make their sailboats. The actual racing occurs in raingutters with plastic ends on them to keep the water in. the boys simply blow into their sail to make it go (some dad's get really into the construction of the boat but forget to parctice blowing which is funny to me because that is what get's you ahead). Rather than just doing time races where there is always a winner and a loser we did relays (that way an entire team loses.... just kidding). So we had the boys in two teams and they had to hand off the baton and everything it was cool but CRAZY!!!!!!!! We had to switch up the teams a couple of times to keep it from always being the same people that were winning but the boys seemed to enjoy it. To make it even more interesting we changed up what they had to do every time (sometimes they just blew into their sails, sometimes they had to use a straw, or hop instead of walk, or blow their sail to the end then do jumping jacks before they could pass on the baton). It was an incredibly wild and crazy night but i think that the boys really had alot of fun- i do think that some of the dad's were a little disappointed that their wasn't a chance for their boy to be the ultimate race winner but hey this is actually supposed to be for the boys not the dad's... right? it was a very crazy night and next month is Blue and Gold (which joe won't be there for). I'm not really sure why on earth they would plan to have the rain gutter regatta in the middle of winter in rexburg because we had to have it inside and we couldn't figure out how to empty the raingutters when all was said and done. We ended up emptying it glass by glass into pitchers which we took into the kitchen to empty. Oh well it worked and we had some people that helped us which was great of them. So we officially survived! Here's a couple of random pictures