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Burgers, Scouts, and Football
Oct. 1st, 2010 11:09 pmThis afternoon, I stayed way too late after school to finish an awful lot of work. Very tired afterward, and no way I was cooking. The plan: take the boys out somewhere for supper for the first time in ages. But when I got home, I found only Aran. Sasha and Maksim had vanished to some unknown friend's house, with no phone call or note.
All righty, then. I left a note on the dining room table that said I was very sorry Sasha and Maksim had decided to disappear without permission, and that I was planning to go out for dinner. Since they weren't there and hadn't done their jobs, Aran and I would go by ourselves. And we did.
We ended up at Big Boy, with its new build your own burger bar, which is hopelessly alliterative. Aran built a double hamburger and ate the whole thing with a huge plateful of fries. Man alive! I ate one regular hamburger, a few fries, and a salad, and I was popping at the seams.
Back home, it was time for Mackie's first pack meeting. And Sasha wanted to go to the Sasha High football game. I dropped him off there--already the parking lot was crowded, and a carnival atmosphere was going--and Mackie and I went to the pack meeting at Cub Scout Elementary.
I vaguely remember pack meetings when I was a cub scout. A kid has a distorted sense of scale, so I don't know if this one was smaller than the ones I remember or if I was smaller back then or both. It was weird being there, though. This one was in the gymnasium, with cafeteria tables set up as various registration and paperwork stations. Kids were running around everywhere.
Since Mackie was new, I went through the registration process. Many forms to fill out, dues to pay. Scouting has become more expensive--$82 for the year. (!) This included a subscription to BOYS LIFE magazine (maybe I'll try to write something for it), a t-shirt, several badges, and the neckerchief. I still have to buy the uniform shirt.
This troop is also quite active. A number of activities were available for sign-up. Unfortunately, the two upcoming ones conflicted with other events I'm already committed to, and Cub Scouts have to have a parent at attendance for all events. The third one is in February, and I can't call it that far in advance. But there are other events coming up.
We also got a copy of the Cub Scout Handbook. It's been revamped since I saw it last, but chunks of it were exactly the same as the one I had. That was totally weird to see, too!
The meeting, meanwhile, was very loud and chaotic, as any event attended by a couple dozen small children will be. I finally retreated to a corner of the gym with my laptop and wrote.
Sasha texted me several times during the evening to report that Sasha High School was kicking the other team's butt at the game.
A bit before the meeting ended, Mackie was getting really tired and overstimulated, so I took him home. A few minutes later, Sasha needed to be picked up. An evening of burgers, scouts, and football--total Americana.
All righty, then. I left a note on the dining room table that said I was very sorry Sasha and Maksim had decided to disappear without permission, and that I was planning to go out for dinner. Since they weren't there and hadn't done their jobs, Aran and I would go by ourselves. And we did.
We ended up at Big Boy, with its new build your own burger bar, which is hopelessly alliterative. Aran built a double hamburger and ate the whole thing with a huge plateful of fries. Man alive! I ate one regular hamburger, a few fries, and a salad, and I was popping at the seams.
Back home, it was time for Mackie's first pack meeting. And Sasha wanted to go to the Sasha High football game. I dropped him off there--already the parking lot was crowded, and a carnival atmosphere was going--and Mackie and I went to the pack meeting at Cub Scout Elementary.
I vaguely remember pack meetings when I was a cub scout. A kid has a distorted sense of scale, so I don't know if this one was smaller than the ones I remember or if I was smaller back then or both. It was weird being there, though. This one was in the gymnasium, with cafeteria tables set up as various registration and paperwork stations. Kids were running around everywhere.
Since Mackie was new, I went through the registration process. Many forms to fill out, dues to pay. Scouting has become more expensive--$82 for the year. (!) This included a subscription to BOYS LIFE magazine (maybe I'll try to write something for it), a t-shirt, several badges, and the neckerchief. I still have to buy the uniform shirt.
This troop is also quite active. A number of activities were available for sign-up. Unfortunately, the two upcoming ones conflicted with other events I'm already committed to, and Cub Scouts have to have a parent at attendance for all events. The third one is in February, and I can't call it that far in advance. But there are other events coming up.
We also got a copy of the Cub Scout Handbook. It's been revamped since I saw it last, but chunks of it were exactly the same as the one I had. That was totally weird to see, too!
The meeting, meanwhile, was very loud and chaotic, as any event attended by a couple dozen small children will be. I finally retreated to a corner of the gym with my laptop and wrote.
Sasha texted me several times during the evening to report that Sasha High School was kicking the other team's butt at the game.
A bit before the meeting ended, Mackie was getting really tired and overstimulated, so I took him home. A few minutes later, Sasha needed to be picked up. An evening of burgers, scouts, and football--total Americana.
