Got this interesting email from Chuck about his Boy Scout Camping time. He puts it so well I just copied and pasted it for all to read. ENJOY!
Darleena
I have pics up on our webshots site. We had a nice weekend outside the city hiking through the thick Indonesian Jungle and camping Indonesian style (i.e., someone else does all the hard work like setting up tent, cooking and cleaning for you).Overall it was a good weekend. It rained quite a bit, but it was fun to wear ponchos. The only two boys to get hurt out of the 40 boys or so were Charles and Joey. So -- in my eyes -- since only my boys were hurt, it was a success!! Charles cut his finger when one of the other boys accidentally hit him with a stick he was trying to pull out of the mud. Joey, on the other hand, got run over by a boy on a swing, nearly drowned by the Webelos and attacked by blood sucking leeches.
Where we were meeting up, there was a small playground and Joey, not paying attention, got smacked in the stomach by another boy on a swing. The wind got knocked out of him and he cried for a while, but it was his own fault for not paying attention. Later that day, the boys found a concrete slide at the campground. The water that made the slide was diverted from a nearby mountain stream. The Webelos, after listening to me say they could only go one at a time, decided I wasn't worth listening to and, when I went down to where the slide spilled out to watch the pond, thought it was a good idea to go down the slide at the same time. Joey, being the littlest, got stuck about 2-3 boys from the front of about 12 boys, mostly Webelos. Why he was with the Webelos is still beyond me (why he and the others didn't listen, well, I can understand that one!). The kids in the back all piled in over the kids at the front into the pond at the end of the slide. Nuts. Oddly enough, I took a picture just before they all went in because Joey had asked me to take a picture of him -- again, go back to why Joey got in with all the boys even after I told them not too!? I am yelling "Hold your breath Joey" as I took that pic. Out of my pocket came my mobile phone and the camera right after the flash went off went flying into the grass next to the slide. I was one foot in the water, saw Joey pop up and I was able to reach over and pull him out from the edge. I pulled out a few more kids and gave them all an earful. Ha. After that they went one at a time and a few of the dads started paying attention at the top of the slide. The next day, we all went swimming in a pool next to a waterfall. The water was freezing, but somehow Joey found some leeches -- four of them in total -- attached to his arm. We noticed this about 20 minutes after we left the waterfall too. Joey was bragging to his friends and laughing about these worms on his arm. One of the guides had a lighter, so I started burning off the leeches. Two leeches had already done their damage or I didn't burn them off right and Joey was bleeding for a while afterwards. He thought it was cool though and couldn't wait to show mom the cuts. We ended up making an announcement and all the kids and dads started checking themselves for leeches. Noone had them -- only Joey. We suspect he found them in some mud or on a stick he picked up afterwards. I wished I took pictures of the leeches, but at the time, I was only thinking of getting the things off of Joey's arm.
Sorry folks no photos of the leeches!
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