Halloween

So I made it back from Happy Camper school with just the bare minimum of frostbite. It has to be the most unusual Halloween I've ever had. I mean most people just dress up like a ghost and go door to door extorting treats....not me, I go a few miles outside the 1 bit of civilization there is dig a hole in the ground, throw a sleeping bag into the hole and take a nice nap. I guess it's a good zombie impersonation. So back to the happy camper thing. It was interesting we learned how to make a wind wall out of blocks of snow, pitch a tent in high winds, and my favorite...wander around outside with buckets on our heads to simulate a white out condition. The goal was to find a lost member of our party....unfortunately we never found him and "killed" off a member of the rescue party who lost his grip on the lifeline we were attached to. So the moral of the story, don't get lost you'll die.

We finally finished up camp and made it back to town just in time for the big Halloween party, sure it was a day late NZ time but most of us are off on Sunday's so Saturday night is much more fitting, besides we can rationalize any holiday into a 2 day event. Celebrate on local time then back on US time the next day. New years must be fun here.
So the scariest costume award went to our Sarah Palin look alike.