Scouts Camping Trip
Dear Mum,
Our Scoutmaster told us to write to our parents
in case you saw the flood on TV and got 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 great.. We never would have found Adam in the
dark if it hadn't been for the lightning.
Scoutmaster Ted 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 Ted
gets the bus fixed. It wasn't his fault about the
crash. The brakes worked okay when we left.
Scoutmaster Ted 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 super bus. He doesn't care if we
get it dirty, and if it's hot, sometimes he lets
us ride on the bumpers. It gets pretty hot with 45
people in a bus made for 24.. He let us take turns
riding in the trailer until the policeman stopped
and talked to us..
Scoutmaster Ted is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is
a good driver. In fact, he is teaching Horace how
to drive on the mountain roads where there aren't
any cops. All we ever see up there are huge
logging trucks.
This morning all of the guys were diving off the
rocks and swimming out to the rapids. Scoutmaster
Ted wouldn't let me because I can't swim, and Adam
was afraid he would sink because of his cast (it's
concrete because we didn't have any plaster), so
he let us take the canoe out. It was great. You
can still see some of the trees under the water
from the flood.
Scoutmaster Ted 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 all got to see how a tourniquet
works.
Steve and I threw up, but Scoutmaster Ted said it
was probably just food poisoning from the
left-over 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 post
our letters and buy some more
beer and ammo. Don't worry about anything. We are
fine and tonight it's my turn to sleep in the
Scoutmaster's tent.
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