This was it … our last day at the
Jamboree.
As predicted, we woke up to gray skies,
and the weather was definitely looking bad. After breakfast, I set
out for the Summit Center to purchase the last “Patch of the Day”
for the Jamboree. For those who aren't aware of this, each day of the
Jamboree, a daily patch was made available for sale in the Trading
Post. I had decided on the second day to “go for it”, and
purchase each of the daily patches … what an adult scouter won't do
for a patch!!!
At this point, it looked as though the
rain would be starting any minute, so I walked back to our camp as
quickly as I could. Just as I arrived, the leading edge of the storm
came through. There was heavy rain and some lightning for about 45
minutes. Finally, the rain let up a little and the lightning stopped.
There wasn't much to do at this point …
it was still raining lightly, and the activity centers would be
closing down shortly in preparation for the Closing Show, which would
be held in the evening. We were hanging out under our dining fly when
one of our scouts asked whether we had picked up our “Day of
Service” patches. Unfortunately, we hadn't, so I walked back to the
Summit Center with one of the other adult leaders to get them. Of
course, while we were walking, the heavy rain started again. We got
to the Summit Center, picked up the patches, and then walked back to
our camp. I had rain gear on, but neverless, by the time we got back,
I was pretty wet and my boots were completely soaked!!!
We were supposed to leave for the show
at around 5:00, so we decided not to bother cooking dinner in order
to avoid all of the clean up associated with cooking. Instead,
everyone just ate whatever food we had accumulated over the past
week, including peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, tuna salad,
chicken salad, fig bars, fruit cup, bagels & cream cheese and
whatever else was in our “pantry”.
We also started packing up some of our
gear, particularly all of the camp kitchen. We would be getting back
from the show pretty late, and we were scheduled to board our buses
at 6:00 am on Friday morning. We weren't going to have much time to
pack up our camp, so we really pushed the boys to get a lot of the
clean up done now.
At 5:00, we got everyone together and
headed out to the stadium for the show. We got to the stadium and had
to wait almost two hours for the show to start. There was a lot of
excitement in the air, as the rumors were circulating that the
headline entertainment would be the band Imagine Dragons.
Unfortunately, a lot of the boys were disappointed when it turned out
that the headline band was the Plain White T's. Many of the boys had
never even heard of them. Nevertheless, they put on a good show and
afterwards, there was a really big fireworks show!!!
At that point, everyone headed back to
camp. We wanted to do some more camp cleanup so that we could sleep a
little later in the morning. We took down the dining flies and broke
down most of the tables and as much other gear as we could. The
decision was made to wake up at 4:00 am so that we could finish
packing and be on time to board the buses at 6:00 am.
Tomorrow was going to be another long
day!!!
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