Tonight was “shakedown”. The boys had to have their packed dry bags and bring them with them to their meeting. Everyone emptied their bags right there on the lawn on the scout house (which is on the corner of a pretty major (in Vermont terms) intersection. What a sight to see, 5 boys and two grown men waving boxers, socks, shirts, pants, bathing suits, etc up in the air for the world to see. They went through the whole list that way….one item group at a time to make sure that everyone had everything. And then they packed it all back up again.

There are few things that we have a to re-sort like TJ’s need to bring 7 pairs of boxers for a 5 night trip but no socks and Tim thinking he only needs a bathing suit and no other shorts. Overall, pretty proud of the boys since they packed themselves and between the three of them, had everything on the list that they were supposed to have. I especially liked when TJ didn’t have something (like a pocket knife) and said that his brothers could cut the food (pepperoni) and he would just be the eater. Gotta love brothers.

So today makes it T minus 3 days and counting…………….