The Boyscout activity this weekend was something call the Raingutter Regatta. The boys each got a sailboat kit and had to build and decorate the boat to sail in a, you guessed it, rain gutter, propelled by their breaths. So, we've been busy, and waited until the night before to make the boats. The boys did a little bit of painting and then decorating with some decals. The racing was not as easy as the building. The boats are propelled by blowing into the sail at just the right point. My boys, however, had a hard time mastering it. But, they got tons of turns to try, since it seemed as if each boy raced every single other boy there-and those were just the prelims. The top 2 from each den made it to the finals. Cale made it since there were only 2 Tiger Cubs there. Thank goodness he did, because he was having some serious non-sportsman-like conduct issues. Neither he nor Marcus won any of their races, but Cale, as always, took it harder than Marcus (or at least externallized his emotions more). Overall, I think they had fun and enjoyed being around their friends. In the spring, we get another chance to race-with cars.
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