Liam's Blue and Gold Banquet

For the past month or so, Liam's been so excited to go to scouts and we couldn't figure out why.  He told us soon after that the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet was coming up and they were making "stuff" for the big night. The theme for the night was "Knights of the Roundtable" and was a lot of fun. Liam had made his "knight's costume" complete with helmet, sword & shield which you can see here.  The helmet was awesome-I'm pretty sure he used every choice of fabric, paint, jewels, etc. that were set out when they made them.  He was pretty proud of how it all turned out.  

Here's some of the other cub's get ups

Here is a photo of Liam getting his "Bear" award from the King

...and here's the video clip:

(the rumbling that you hear is the crowd pounding their fists on their tables...customary back then

instead of sissy claps)

After dinner they had professional fencers come to show us their skills-it was cool

and the boys were fascinated.

At the end of the banquet all of the boys came together to say the Scout Motto, raise

their swords in snyc and yelled some macho thing like "Do Your Best!"...then had a mega

sword fight to the death.