It was a pretty good tour, they asked the boys questions and talked about how to start a camp fire, why there are so many different sleeping bags, where to canoe in the state and why you would want a longer canoe vs a shorter one, etc. They we hid the hunting area (although we avoided the gun section). The boys all had fun climbing in and out of the turkey blinds.
We stopped by the archery counter, pretty cool stuff. He got down a kids compound bow and passed it around for the kids to look at. This bow shoots arrows at 200 feet per second. Holy crap. It has all the same components as a deluxe big man bow, just smaller. And it comes in pink camo. The boys all wanted to shoot it... of course. Turns out, they have an indoor range. He took us back and let the boys... watch him shoot the bow. That was a better option for this bunch. Pretty cool.
The manager told me on the side that they had just held the National ADA Shooting Sports Championship in that building. He said it was amazing to watch these people drive in in electric wheel chairs, have someone load there pellet gun and then shoot it with there mouth. Sounds cool. Again, I digress.
At the end of the tour they sat the boys down in the conference room again, gave their commercial ("Bring your dad back and buy stuff"), then asked the boys questions about fishing and such with the winner getting a giant stuffed Rainbow Trout. These is where I ruined it, again. Lexy was so set on answering questions, but I wouldn't let her, we where there for the boys, the scouts. After a real hard question that stumped the boys I whispered the answer to her, she raised her had and answered the question. "You win", the guy says.
"No you don't", says the mean Dad, and I scooped her up and out of the room we when. She was crying and one of the boy needed to win. She and I talked about it and she was still super upset. So, I grabbed one of the giant stuffed fish and we marched up to pay for it. I just about had it done where here came another manager with a second stuffed fish for Lexy. I told the girl at the desk, "I know that is your boss, but I don't care. Put my money in the drawer." He won and Lexy got a FREE giant Rainbow Trout. One of the boy still won the other one. But, in several of the boys eyes Lexy and I ruined the game. Sorry everybody.
So, here are the pics of Lexy and her new toy... And I figured I better buys something after all that and she needed a new folding camp chair anyway ($8, not bad).
Once we got home Isaac ran upstairs and grabbed the big ole Bass that Rick Rosenberg gave me when I was in the hospital a few years ago so that he had a giant fish to snuggle with for bed time too. It all turned out OK in the end.
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