Troop 281 Cincinnati, OH

This meeting was a white elephant gift exchange.   Everybody brought   a gift to exchange.    Then we had patrol leader elections.   Scroll down to read the feast fest blog.

This week we had the Feast Fest camp out.    The food was very good.   It was one of the warmest Feast Fest camp outs we have ever had.    There was a hike that some Scouts went on.   We stayed in cabins with fire places.   We ate dinner in the dinning hall. Joe, Historian

This week we planned for the feast fest camp out.   We had a skill session on cooking.   The cobbler that we made for the skill session couldn’t cook, because it was raining.   After the cobbler was made, Alex S. drank the left over condensed milk.   Then we planned for the camp out.

This meeting the winner of color wars was announced.   The winner is (drum roll) Phoenix.   The meeting was a game night, so we played board games.   There was also seven boards of review.

earned by competing in many events and challenges.   The first competition actually occurred at last Tuesday’s Scout meeting with a chariot race on chariots made with staves lashed together with ropes.   The meals, dinner and breakfast, are judged by the Youth Staff for points.   In the morning after breakfast, we had a flag ceremony then went to a round robin.   Four events make up the round robin: the web, the chariot race, puzzles, and a water relay.    Then after lunch, we had a “Minute to Win It Challenge” which consisted of challenges such as picking up pieces of pasta with a strand of spaghetti in your mouth.   The competition between Zach D. and Andrew B. was heated in the Oreo eating competition.   Andrew won with 11 Oreos consumed in one minute while Zach only had 7.   Later that afternoon we had a fire building competition, again the competition was fierce between the Thrashing Sharks and Phoenix Patrols.   When it came dow...

This week we had an interesting Scout meeting.   We had a skill session on cooking.   Then we cooked some food.   Nathan H. did a good job on the skill session.   For the game we were going to play dodge ball, but we could not find the net.   Instead we played swing the thing.   I was disappointed, because our troop hasn’t played dodge ball in a long time.