Thanksgiving Plans

So I only have a little more than a week before I finally get to go home for Thanksgiving break. I haven't been able to go home since I got here in August, mostly because it is a 6-7 hour drive, not terribly practical to make twice in one weekend. It will be very nice to sleep in my own room again, if only for 5 days. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I will be having my Eagle Scout Board of Review. This is the last step before I am officially awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. This was a long and arduous task, and I started putting things in motion for it, well really since 6th grade, but the hardest part I started last November. For my Eagle Scout project, I organized the construction of 43 cedar artificial wood duck nesting boxes, that were then placed in various wetland areas around the Chesapeake Bay. As I was working on these things last summer, I was racing the clock to get it all done before I had to ship of to school, and thankfully, I got my paperwork submitted just in time. These past several months, that paperwork has been shuffled around God knows how many old guys' desks and reviewed many times. I give credit to my Eagle adviser for making sure I had all the right stuff in it, cause it was accepted about a month ago, and I just need to get home and have my Board of Review. It's quite exciting. Eventually, possibly during Spring Break, I will get to have an official ceremony for it, but that can wait, although, I can not wait for the novelty cake with the custom icing job with the eagle on it. Thats a once in a lifetime thing you know.