Lucky, Until Now

By Maeve


NEWS FLASH: FRIDAY THE 13 DOESN'T MEAN UNLUCKY!

We got lucky. I know that it was Saturday the 14, but we started camping on the 13, and we got lucky.

It was supposed to rain all of Saturday. It was supposed to rain all day, and then stop at night. But it didn't. Miraculously there was no rain until the night. That meant that we got to do all of the activities that we were scheduled to do during the day, but we had to do the campfire inside at night.

When we got to the campfire there were already people there, and we started doing stuff right away. There was this one skit that I can remember very clearly. There were five girls lined up on a bench, right leg crossed over left, right elbow on knee, and right hand supporting the head. The first one would go, "Is it time yet?", and then the others would pass it down to the last person, who would look at an imaginary watch, and answer, "No." The message would then be passed down the line to the last person. They did this about five times, and then, when the watch person said, "Yes!", they switched left leg, left elbow, left hand, face. It was hilarious!

Then the real fun came, well, it was more sad then fun, but, still.

They had an old American Flag there that needed to be retired. One representative from each troop would come up and cut off one of the stripes, if they were born in one of the 13 colonies, they would usually cut off the stripe of their colony. They would then fold the stripe in half, and put it in the fire. It would take a few seconds, but then the fire would burn so much brighter. I thought that I could see the color of the stripe in the flames. It was so sad! It felt as though the very life was burning out of each and every stripe!