Thursday-Friday August 18-19
Wake for breakfast at 6:15. Clean up our tents, take a final shower and pack our bags for the trip home. We visit the Villa and the Seton Museum. We lounge around in the hot sun till afternoon. The bus arrives an hour early to take us to the train station. We drop our packs off at the train station, Mr. Manning and Matt Levandowski stay and watch the packs as we go to Pizza Hut for dinner. We order 11 pizzas and a ton of soda. We eat and walk back to the train with a stop at the store for that last supply of train food. Wait for the train and meet this very interesting lady, ummm? Talk to a couple of staff members that are going home as well. The train arrives late. We board and homeward bound we go. The ride is pretty quiet as there are a lot of tired scouts and advisors. Some play cards in the lounge, eat watermelon or just sit in the lounge car. The next day Mr. F & K & M and Justin meet a guy who went to the Jamboree in the 1930's. We arrive in Chicago, learn that we will have a train to Sturtevent. We wait for the train, the guys play hack for the last time and then board the final train. The air-conditioning doesn't work and it seems to be 100 degrees with 100% humidity. By this time we all smell just great. We get off the train about 45 minutes late to a crowd of families and friends. The trip is now complete.
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