Want to order Scout Popcorn?

If you missed our personal plea to buy excellent Scout Popcorn, then here is your chance to order online.

Go to this site:


http://www.orderpopcorn.com/Store/Catalog/Default.aspx

and use this code for Sean:

TEV70HM

Sean and Pack 61 thank you.

Some Cub Scout Events

Pack 61 Fall Campout

Pack 61 had their Fall Campout at Camp Tom Wootton, led by Chief Dancing with Chickens. Actually, we had a great Native American theme and the campout was fantastic. It was the last pack-wide campout for the older scouts, so they had a really cool ceremony to light the campfire.

Den 8 Dragons at Krause Springs

The Dragons had their first camp out at Krause Springs in Spicewood, and the boys had a ton of fun. They earned their Forestry activity badge, cooked a wonderful camp stew from scratch, and did lots and lots of running around. The campgrounds there are wonderful, and it's nice and close to Austin.

Den 8 Dragons at Bowie vs. Austin High

The Dragons worked on their Sportsman activity badge while attending the Bowie vs. Austin High football game. Bowie ended up winning the game in thrilling fashion in overtime, though we were long in bed by that point. Go Bulldogs!

Den 8 Dragons at TPWD Expo

The Den 8 Dragon patrol spend a couple of hours at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo in Austin. It wasn't nearly enough time, but they had fun with bugs, helicopters, cooking, rope making and more.

Den 8 Dragon's Zoo trip

The Dragons invited members of Den 3 to join them at the Austin Zoo to work on Naturalist.

Fishing, camping a Beauscher State Park

Pack 61 had a fishing derby at Beauscher State Park on June, and Den 13 stayed over to camp. It was actually Brian's first time to camp without Mom & Dad because we had to work Sunday school the next morning. Of course, he did fine :-)

Spring Break trip

We did this fantastic trip to West Texas over Spring Break with four other families. We have tons of photos and lots to write about, but I haven't gotten to it.

Fortunately, one of our fellow trippers wrote about it in the Den 13 Blog.

Quick Cub Scout links

Just a couple quick links to some photo galleries:

• Pack 61 Blue and Gold banquet
• Den 13 helps Pack 96/796 with their Pinewood Derby

Pack 61 Pinewood Derby, 2007

Pack 61 held their 2007 Pinewood Derby at Southwest Hills Community Church. The derby is one of the best events of Cub Scouting ... the boys and the parents really get into it.

This year, Sean's Cheesecake car won an award for Most Original design. This is kind of funny because last year Brian won the same award for an ice cream sundae car.

Brian's car was a Mario Kart car with a neat Model Magic character he sculpted, but alas it was more than the required 5 ounces. We tried to put Mario on a diet, but he just couldn't lose enough weight by race time, so the car ran riderless. It was a good effort none-the-less.

The year also marked the debut of a new aluminum track and computer timer finish line. The track was very fast and quite nice to look at. Putting it together for the first time proved to be quite an experience.

We had one computer glitch that stalled us for a bit at the beginning, but we ended up racing more than 60 cars in four lanes in about an hour.

Here are scene photos from the derby, and then here are photos of all the winners.