Technically they've been home since Sunday, but I'm just now getting around to posting and they came home really gross so I waited to take the picture on Monday night.
Clay and Ron were both gone all last weekend to Camp Barstow for Order of the Arrow Ordeal Weekend. Ron was tapped out over the summer (you might have read the post about this back in July) and he had to do a service project, spend the night roughing it, eat scant food, couldn't talk and participate in secret ceremonies that I can't know about. Clay got his "brotherhood" back in May so he was there as an OA member and participated in some of the rituals apparently.
All in all, they seemed to have a good weekend with one little (yes, it is physically little, but comfortably and financiall BIG) snafu....Mr. "always follows the directions" (that would be Ron) did what he was told and didn't take a flashlight for his "night". Well, if you know Ron, you know that he has to have his contacts to see. Without them, he's basically blind and because the problem is kerataconous, glasses don't help....it has to be contacts. He did get special permission to take his contact supplies, but had to take them out in the dark. After years of wearing them, Ron is really adept at doing this so it shouldn't be a problem (shouldn't being the key word there). What he didn't count on was the fact that in the dark he wouldn't be able to see in the dark to make sure the contact was in the container. His left one landed on the edge of the container and the lid broke it in half. So, he spent all day Saturday and Sunday with one eye.
Luckily for our bank account, he happened to have a spare left contact that he saved when he ordered his new pair and he's using it right now.
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