On Friday night Stephen, Jason & I went to Siege to play airsoft, there were less people but the teams were divided in a way that we were stuck with the newbs all night which definitely made things difficult.  I’m thankful that I was carrying 4 Airsoft Innovations Tornado impact grenades as well as the newer Cyclone, they were useful when the other side massed up.  Starting to get to know the regulars, most are a year into the sport and none of them like playing low light lol!  I played one game under NODs and frankly told them how to counter that advantage because we’re all here to have fun and it’s not sporting otherwise.

Saturday morning I took Brandon to Kumon then at around 12:30pm we left to go to the Eco Spirit hike.  It’s an annual scouting event held for Cubs & Beavers and the kids had a great time. 🙂

The weather was cool and thankfully the kids wore enough to stave off the cold.  It sprinkled here and there but the ground stayed firm which was good since most of the kids including B were wearing their running shoes though I did have a pair of rain boots close by in the car.  After a quick dinner we went for a night walk where the kids either watched Scouts perform skits or leaders talking about the topic of the day which was renewable energy.

We left the camp grounds around 9pm and got back just before 10 which was nice, the boy went to bed and I had a bit of time to unwind.

Today I met up with Jason around 10:45am, we went to Hero Outdoors looking for some airsoft stuff then hit up Sail where I got this…

I thought Maggie would be mad at me but surprisingly she thought it was cool.  Now I need to go to Home Depot to pick up some wood to make a backboard, I don’t want to start throwing and hitting the drywall. I watched the F1 race, too bad Mercedes had a lousy strategy or else Lewis Hamilton could have won his 5th championship oh well he’ll have to wait a week where they all race again in Mexico.  After the race, I loaded up the Toyota Prius with my winter tires dropped it off and came home.  Hopefully it’ll be done tomorrow then I’ll be ready for when there’s accumulation of the white stuff.

Relaxing now, back to work tomorrow.

Well I certainly had a busy weekend.  Saturday started bright and early, I went to the range with Laura though before picking her up I dropped by Mario’s place to drop off his Knights Armament RIS, two Norinco NP22 mags and got a Sig P226 mag in return.  The range was fun, I got to try my new Triggertech AR15 trigger and the Sig Sauer P226 though the weather was pretty lousy.

I actually didn’t like shooting the P226 that much, it seemed to have more recoil than my HK SFP9 which is odd since the latter has a plastic lower, maybe it’s the higher bore axis. Anyway we didn’t stay too long and by 11am, we were heading back home.  I wanted to be back for Brandon’s afternoon activities so timing worked out well.

After swimming I put together a small shelf and put it into a large closet in the kitchen.  Maggie previously just stacked stuff on top of each other and there was no way we would ever access things on the bottom, now there’s a lot more usable space.

Today was our Beavers/Cub scouts spring park cleanup and the kids were good.

The weather was ok though it was very windy and remarkably there was a lot less garbage than usual though as Scouter Ron noted, there were certainly a lot of bubble tea cups and straws.

When we returned I put together another shelving unit, this time it’s for the garage and would make it easier to store the tires for my car.  The instructions sucked but it was fairly easy to figure out and I think I have a winner here though I won’t know for sure till later when I pick up my Toyota, dropped it off earlier to get its tires changed.

We chilled the rest of the evening and it’s back to work tomorrow.  Not really looking forward to it but that’s how it goes and I didn’t win the lottery yet. 😉

Picked up a toy Saturday morning but I’ll get into that later, this weekend was the Ontario Science Center scouting sleep over and of course Brandon was attending. 🙂  There were 32 kids, 14 Beavers & 18 Cubs along with 5 leaders so we had our hands full but the kids had a great time.  I particularly enjoyed the IMAX movie Amazing Amazon, about Henry Bates adventures during the 1850s, the dedication and amount of work and sacrifice in the name of science is amazing.

After the movie we played for many hours with the kids, picked up our sleeping bags and headed to the Human Experience section to sleep for the night.  By 11pm, most of the Beavers were tired and when lights went off at 12, we got an unpleasant surprise, the lights directly above us went to about 30% and was still pretty darn bright.  Typically that doesn’t bother me but for some reason it did last night, that and I was awaken 4 times to take the kids to the bathroom so needless to say I’m pretty tired.

The lights automatically come on at 6:45 AM, most of the kids were tired but they did a great job at policing the area and tidying up before going to play more.  We had a quick breakfast and went to the original staging area for 8:50, parents were to pick up the kids at 9.  Unfortunately for some reason or another, one of the parents who’s always late came at like 9:45 but that’s how things go, Brandon and I headed home and relaxed the rest of the day.

I did unfurl both sleeping bags and mats to vacuum, they were full of sand and grit since we were sleeping on the carpet floor so everything is now nice and tidy for next time.  We played a bit at home while Maggie worked on some accounting stuff and I just put the boy to sleep.  While managing so many kids can be aggravating at times, it’s also super rewarding and I’m so happy to be able to spend time with my boy like this.  I know in a few years he’ll be too cool for me, so I’m going to enjoy this while I can. 🙂