Christian's Sleepover Weekend

August 6th Christian came over for his sleepover weekend. He was planning on "guy things" with Skip and Ryan. We had been reviewing his Cub Scout handbook for various projects he could tackle over the weekend and ended up picking out a few different things. Friday night he tripped over the tipi in its storage bag (where it has been for quite awhile) and said if we would put it up he would sleep in it. Skip heard this and it prompted an immediate push to get the thing up. Altogether it was about 2 hours of work for Skip, Ryan and I. They did most of the lifting. I was in charge of reading the how-to book and measuring, neither of which I managed to do to Skip's satisfaction, but !@! we did get it up and we're all happy with it now. It is quite beautiful ... in the rain, at night, in the day ... it is a mystical, magical presence. Christian took lots of photos, but I'm not sure where they went. Here are three he took the following day.

He and Ryan spent the night out there and had a great time. Apparently they went to bed about 3am after Ryan's buddy, Ben, came over and then left. They also stayed out there Saturday night, but ended up transferring to the shop floor half-way through the evening of comraderie with two other friends because someone saw a HUGE spider headed for Ryan's hair. All four boys moved their blankets to the shop floor and slept out there instead. Saturday Ryan, Skip and Christian worked on his cub-mobile, which would have gone better if they had gotten decent sleep I think. In any event, the work progressed amid various loud, passionate communications and by the end of Saturday it needed a seat cushion and paint, plus steering cord. Sunday morning I got Christian out working on it and he did the painting while I made a seat cushion of black-and-white checkered (think nascar) contact paper and foam on my sewing machine. Merri showed up and we added the steering rope and Skip took him for a spin.