george minze
Member
Dear Mom and Dad Our scoutmaster told us to write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and got worried. We are OK. Only one of our tents got washed away, along with 2 sleeping bags..Luckily none of us got drowned because we were all up on the mountain looking for Adam when it happened. Oh yes please call Adam's mother and tell her he is OK. He can't write because of the cast. I got to ride in one of the Search and Rescue jeeps. It was great. We never would have found Adam in the dark if it hadn't been for the lightning...Scoutmaster Ted got mad at Adam for going on a hike alone with out telling anyone. Adam said he did tell him, but it was during the fire so he probably didn't hear him. Did you know if you put gas on a fire, the gas will blow up. The wet wood didn't burn, but one of tents did and also some of our clothes. Mathew is going to look weird until his hair grows back...... we will be home on Sunday If Scoutmaster Ted gets the bus fixed. It wasn't his fault about the crash. The brakes worked fine when we left. Scoutmaster Ted said with a bus that old, you have to expect something to brake down, that is probably why he can't get insurance.....We think it is a super bus. He doesn't care if we get it dirty, and if it is hot, sometimes he lets us ride on the big bumpers. It gets pretty hot with 45 people in a bus made for 24. He let us take turns riding in the trailer until the policeman stopped and talked to us.....Scoutmaster Ted is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is a good driver. In fact he is teaching Horace on the mountain roads where there aren't any cops...All we ever see on those roads are logging trucks with all those neat logs stacked real high. What makes them stay on that flimsy trailer??.......This morning all the guys were diving off the rocks and swimming out to the rapids..Scoutmaster Ted wouldn't let me because i can't swim, and Adam was afraid he would sink because of his cast (it is concrete because we didn't have any plaster.) so he lets me and Adam take the canoe out. It was great..You can still see some of the submerged trees from the flood..Scoutmaster Ted isn't crabby like some scoutmasters..He didn't even get mad about the life jackets. He has to spend a lot of time working on the bus so we are trying not to cause him any trouble...Guess What? We have all passed our first merit badges. When Andrew dived into the lake and cut his arm, we all got to see how a tourniquet works...Steve and I threw up, but Scoutmaster Ted said it was probably just food poisoning from the left over chicken. He said they got sick that way with food they ate prison..I'm so glad he got out and became our scoutmaster. He said he sure figured out how to get things done better while doing time. By the way, what is a pedal-file? ...I have to go now. We are going into town to post our letters and Ted said we need more beer and ammo. Don't worry about anything. We are fine and tonight it is finally my turn to get to sleep in the Scoutmasters tent ....
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