Scout Meeting Last Night

The Scouts worked on their patrol flag last night at the Scout meeting. Karen and I decided we should have them glue pieces together. We figured we could always sew them together later. If the guys had to wait for every piece to get sewn the flag would have never gotten done. It wound up taking the whole night the way it was. I was actually planning on being able to do other things last night but that didn't work out. Oh well. Their flag doesn't actually look that bad. They are the Piranhas.

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I have to laugh. One of the guys supposedly looked up how to spell "piranha" so that we would know the right way to spell it on the flag. He came back with "pirahna" as the spelling but when we put it on the flag we screwed up and put "piranha". I was feeling bad because the goof was primarily my fault. Now when I just typed it the supposedly "right" way the spell check showed that his spelling was wrong and that mine was right along. I now no longer feel bad at all. That makes me laugh hard.

Their flag has a half-red and half-black strip going along the top; a large blue area in the middle with the patrol name and three piranhas drawn on it; and an orange section on the bottom that is cut to appear all ragged. It's not a bad design at all.

On a completely separate note one of the parents annoyed me. Their son wasn't at our first two meetings so he is already behind the other guys. Then, at the first meeting he's at, his mom takes him out early and says that he'll never stay for the full meeting because he's got to get home to bed. So now I will have a scout that is always behind and I'll have to figure out what parts of the meeting he was there for when I put it in my records. My meetings only go until 8:30. I have never had a parent complain about that before. Sheesh!