Christmas 2012

Our Christmas Card for 2012

Santa really loaded The Cisco Kid down.

Its always nice to have Grandma and Grandpa up for Christmas

 

Its a very Happy Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I start to prepare the food a couple of days before. so the ending result is relaxing and enjoyable. 

 The Antapasta... We start eating the antapast around 11:00 a.m.

Vegetable cream cheese stuffed celerity.

 Mozzarella cheese and tomato with kalamata olives.

 Dessert Table with bread puding, cheese cake, chocolate cake, pecan pie, nuts, cherries and pineapple.

Dinner was the traditional honey brown sugar baked ham, Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes corn, beans, brussles, turkey gravey and cranberry sauce.

 Grandma and Connor resting after a hard day of eating.

 

Cub Scout and the Showman pin

Another achievement completed. This one is called the Showman. They had to make a sock puppet, give the puppet a name, give the puppet a character and write a part for their puppet.  They also had to write the play and decorate the set.   Open the link to see the show.

At the Pack meeting they performed their show for everyone.  They got big laughs.  General Camo Is The Cisco Kid.   

http://youtu.be/yK_yeFxC_vY



 

A night at the Museum

Last night we went to MOSH and had a Cub Scout Camp - In.  The boys were all so excited spend the night at the Museum.  It was a great experience. We had the whole Museum to our selves.  We had scheduled events.  First the boys had some play time, then we saw a planetarium show, followed by pizza.  After Pizza we all went up to the roof top and looked through a telescope at Jupiter.  The views up there were really great. Next stop are the animals.  They had the turtles and possum running around for the boys to pet them.   Then off to the science room.  This was really fun.  It was called thunder and lightning experiment.  The scientist showed how lightning is charged and how it travels, how clouds are made using boiling liquid added to liquid Nitrogen, the impact of thunder using a Hydrogen filled balloon and making it explode when heat is applied.  Then there was some free Museum time and the boys ran all over playing.     At 10:30 p.m. they played the movie…Night at the Museum II.  After watching the movie a couple of boys got a little spooked.  The Cisco Kid was seeing lights flash on him and he got scared.  One other boy got scared of the life size astronaut suit that was in the museum.  The movie really got to them.
They finally went to sleep at around 1:00 a.m.  
 

Click the three links below to see some Youtube videos from the Science experiment. 
http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=dQqCq44QSCU 

http://youtu.be/9nDHot4ZzAc

http://youtu.be/kaDEzPI3w88

 This was the only dinosaur left at MOSH. All the other are gone. They have a recycling exhibit in place of it.

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Patriots Point Charleston South Carolina

We took the weekend and went to patriots point South Carolina. We talked about going with the Cub Scout as a vacation campout and all the parents and boys were so excited to go. The Chief wanted to go up there and do some recon before we had the whole Cub Scout group go up there, just to make sure everything would go smoothly. We were able to walk and explore every little nook and cranny of the carrier,  USS Yorktown, and the destroyer USS Laffey along with the USS Clamagore submarine.

The Cisco Kid cannot wait to Camp out on the carrier with his Cub Scout buddies. This was a boys dream. Not a Mothers Dream. I will not be camping out on this ship. The dad's and boy's can have this campout on this ship all to themselves. The ship still carries this remarkably pungent smell of thousands of sweaty military men and all their bodily odors, along with oil. All the mothers and me included are going to the nearest resort to stay. We will very content with Mani and Pedi’s all around.

The Bridge 



A look out to the flight deck.   

The Chief looks at home, sitting in that chair, gazing into the ocean.   

He was able to sit in  the cockpit of a plane that was on board.  

The Engine Room.  All these gears, wheels and gages were one of his favorites.

His little nine year old imagination was going crazy.

   

The Cisco Kid was obsessed with all the hatches. Most of them were lock and he could not get in. This one was open and you would have thought he struck gold.  

Hard to believe that a grown man could fit down that hole.