Our pack held it’s FIRST Raingutter Regatta tonight! Actually I don’t think it’s the first one our pack has ever done, but it’s the first one our pack has done since the people that are in charge now, have been in charge, and it’s the first one that they’ve had since Ethan has been in scouts. I was really excited when I saw this on the plan of pack meetings for the year. As we got closer though, they were saying that there wasn’t enough money in the budget to buy Raingutter Regatta boats and they decided to just make boats out of sections of pool noodles instead, which was somewhat disappointing to me. These are cub scouts not preschool kids! Well as it turns out, someone donated enough Raingutter Regatta boats for the boys in the pack and so they got to use those, and the siblings of the cub scouts got to make their own pool noodle boats. 😉
Ethan received the Handyman activity badge and a compass point before the races began, and since there is a pirate theme for tonight’s back meeting, they made him “walk the plank” to receive his awards.
Ethan didn’t place anywhere near the top, but he had fun making and racing his boat and that it really all that matters. He probably won’t ever get another shot at participating in a Raingutter Regatta, considering he is in Webelos now and next year he will be in the 11 year old scouts group, which is part of boy scouts not cub scouts, but I’m glad he got the chance to do it at least once.
They finished off the evening by shooting handfuls of candy out of a candy cannon that one of the Wolf den leaders made. The kids REALLY enjoyed that.
