Declan's Cubscout troop had a sleepover in the USS Razorback, a decommissioned submarine that is parked on the Arkansas River. First off was a very interesting tour, where we saw all the bells and whistles and guts of the submarine, including the bridge, where the internal temperature was usually well above 100 degrees. That lets me out for a submariner career. Well that, and the blood chilling claustrophobia. The boys played then had a thematically appropriate dinner of submarine sandwiches and then played games and watched a movie: Das Boot. Oh it wasn't actually Das Boot, but it was something nautical I'm sure.
They spent the night in the bunks 3 or 4 stacked high, and in the morning dined on doughnuts and chocolate milk. Declan insisted on buying a bucket of army men the next day. I told him that the military life is not all doughnuts and movie nights. But maybe it is, I've never enlisted. There are lots of sleepovers, I know that much.
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