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Wow-I haven't been on for over a week

And now...STORY TIME

I had a scout campout last Thursday-Saturday. The entire trip was all about survival (luckily no one died). There was me, nine other boys, and four leaders. Most of the time we were around the Maryland-West Virginia border.

Day One
WARNING: Day one is not to be read by the squemish or most girls (not to be sexist, but most the girls I've told about it wish I hadn't). If youy want to know why, read on, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Spoiler for Day One:

Day one was survival day, meaning we had to catch our own food. We woke up early in the morning and set off through West Virginia to Maryland. On the way we stopped for about an hour at a chicken farm to pick up some chickens for dinner (these are live chickens by the way). We got four chickens and put them in a dog cage one of the leaders had brought. Later we arrived at our campsite and set up camp. To get some food for dinner, we went fishing at a lake, and later a river. This was mostly uneffective and out of the ten of us, we caught about five small fish, and most of us were sleeping most of the time. When we got back to the campsite it was starting to rain so we had to hang some tarps from trees over our fire pit and cooking station. We had a couple people gutting the fish while the rest of us prepared the chicken (and somewhere there are pictures of this). We had to kill the chickens by having one person hold the chicken's body while the other would grab the head, pull it, and then chop it off. We then hung the body by the legs until all the blood came out. We chopped off the legs and put the chicken in some boiling water so the feathers would come off easier. We plucked out all the feathers, gutted them, and stuck them on a pole to make some delicious rotisary chicken.

Day Two
We went white water rafting on some rappids. I can't remember the name, but they were in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania. There is a sign that says 19 people have died on the rapids, which is of course not very comforting. We all made it through safely and had a coulple hours of fun. Later that night we went to Subway for dinner and went to see Evan Almighty (which was not all that great). When we got back to camp we found a big field and set up a telescope. We saw some cool stuff, Jupiter and some of it's moons.

Day Three
We drove back down to Northern Virginia where some of us did some rock climbing and repeling for a coulple of hours. When I finally got home it felt so good to finally be able to take a shower. And then I went straight to our team party (wouldn't want to miss that ) (and I was only a little late, but it was worth it).