After church today was this year's annual post-summer Court of Honor at the Indian Village picnic grounds in Pebble Beach. Everyone in our troop received their badges and ranks earned over the summer at Chawanakee and Emerald Bay, as well as other awards completed individually.This is always the biggest of the three over the course of the year because everyone comes back from the camps with a ton of awards. Over 100 merit badges alone were given out this afternoon, and the event included a potluck lunch/dinner and lasted for almost three hours.
We arrived around 1:30 and spent the first hour-or-so playing around the area with a random baseball bat that appeared in the area. Finally, the awards ceremony began. I earned the Environmental Science, Nature, Cooking, Soil and Water Conservation, Rifle Shooting, and Swimming merit badges, the BSA aquarist and snorkeling awards, the Sea Lion Swim and War Canoe rocker patches from Emerald Bay, and the rank of Star.After the ceremonial part was over, Mr. Ryan put on a slideshow of the summer camp photos and we had a potluck meal. I had some tabouli that my mom brought, as well as some really good pesto pasta salad.
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Congratulations on all the merit badges. I'm very disappointed that I wasn't there to see this. I had no idea it was this big!
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