Letter From Camp!!

Dear Mom & Dad,



Our Scoutmaster told us to write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and are worried. We are okay. Only one of our tents and 2 sleeping bags got washed away. Luckily, none of us got drowned because we were all up on the mountain looking for Adam when it happened.

Oh yes, please call Adam's mother and tell her he is okay. He can't write because of the cast. I got to ride in one of the search and rescue jeeps. It was neat.. We never would have found Adam in the dark if it hadn't been for the lightning.

Scoutmaster Keith got mad at Adam for going on a hike alone without telling anyone. Adam said he did tell him, but it was during the fire so he probably didn't hear him. Did you know that if you put gas on a fire, the gas will blow up? The wet wood didn't burn, but one of the tents did and also some of our clothes. Matthew is going to look weird until his hair grows back.

We will be home on Saturday if Scoutmaster Keith gets the bus fixed. It wasn't his fault about the wreck. The brakes worked okay when we left. Scoutmaster Keith said that with a bus that old you have to expect something to break down; that's probably why he can't get insurance. We think it's a neat bus. He doesn't care if we get it dirty, and if it's hot, sometimes he lets us ride on the fenders. It gets pretty hot with 45 people in a bus. He let us take turns riding in the trailer until the highway patrol man stopped and talked to us.

Scoutmaster Keith is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is a good driver. In fact, he is teaching Jessie how to drive on the mountain roads where there isn't any traffic. All we ever see up there are logging trucks.

This morning all of the guys were diving off the rocks and swimming out in the lake. Scoutmaster Keith wouldn't let me because I can't swim, and Adam was afraid he would sink because of his cast, so he let us take the canoe across the lake. It was great. You can still see some of the trees under the water from the flood.

Scoutmaster Keith isn't crabby like some scoutmasters. He didn't even get mad about the life jackets. He has to spend a lot of time working on the bus so we are trying not to cause him any trouble.

Guess what? We have all passed our first aid merit badges. When Andrew dived into the lake and cut his arm, we got to see how a tourniquet works. Steven and I threw up, but Scoutmaster Keith said it probably was just food poisoning from the leftover chicken. He said they got sick that way with food they ate in prison.

I'm so glad he got out and became our scoutmaster. He said he sure figured out how to get things done better while he was doing his time.

By the way, what is a pedal-file?

I have to go now. We are going to town to mail our letters and buy some more beer. Don't worry about anything. We are fine.

Love,



Bobby

[margypops]

Oh Crumbs I hope this wasnt a real letter I am laughing but should I be,,,,,,Brilliant...

[dominosarah]

This is funny!!!!!!

[Lonelymom]

no it is not a real letter. I found it very funny as well. Imagine being the parents of this little boy.

[VicUser]

LOL, I can assure you this is made up but it is funny.

I used to be a Scoutmaster and we had some funny stuff happen. Two stories that quickly come to mind are we were on a winter camp out and one of the boys dared another one to stick his tongue to a metal flag pole, yes it was really cold and yes he did it, but just the tip. He did want anyone to know that his tongue was stuck to the pole so he ripped it lose and left some skin attached to the pole. He learned that if you rip skin from your tongue it bleeds, a lot. He can in the shelter where there was a 55 gallon drum turned into a wood burning stove and we found out what he did. Quickly one of the other boys told him to stick hid bleeding tongue on the stove to cauterize it. He started to head that away when we stopped him. He talked funny for a while but he was ok.

During summer camp the boys were into lash logs and branches together to make things and one of the boys came walking into the campsite and said “hey look at this need vine I found to lash with. Yep, you guessed it was poison ivy, were had him was good with soap and water and luckily he only ended up with a few bumps.

Oh the memories.

[Lonelymom]

LMAO!!!!

I think your memories was almost funnier than the letter written.

[PrettyKitty1]

hehehehehehe both the letter and Vic's stories are funny!!!