Christmas party!

Last night was our Christmas party.

We had balloon football, flour cakes, blowing up the balloons until they burst, pass the parcel, sweet hunt and loads more games that pumped them full of sugar and sent them home super hyper!

Megazone

As a kid, I'd never had the chance to go to megazone with a big group of people. Whenever I've been as an adult (it's great fun) we've only ever experienced it with a small group of friends.

With eighteen of us, it's a bit more manic.

And I'm pleased to say I didn't let the side down by being first by a long margin in the first game. For the 2nd and 3rd games I didn't fair quite so well - my battery pack ran out on the 2nd game and the 3rd I was hounded by all the scouts.

I still put up a respectable fight, but first, second and third places were taken by the young leaders.

Cowards.

Scout Pioneering

How do you pioneer without poles? A tricky question...

Unfortunately for us we've still not found a supplier of pioneering poles for our group. We can easily enough get tanalised poles, but they're not particularly good because they are generally smooth (knots don't catch) and have been known to break suddenly and without warning.

Still, we made the best of the night by doing mini pioneering with apple laces and breadsticks.