Man Vs. Wild

We threw a pretty awesome party for Tucker.  The theme was Man Vs. Wild (Bear Grylls style).  When the kids arrived they got a survival whistle:

 These goodie bags were given out at the end:

 I made a couple of banners out of twine:

 Anders worked hard on this poster:

 The "cake."  Perhaps not the most creative, but it worked:

 The anticipation:

 The preparation (Rob is burning the edges of the survival instructions:

 When the boys arrived they piled in the "helicopter" to be "dropped" into the wilderness just above the house where they had to find animal tracks, kindling, a fresh water source, and signs of "human activity".  These things had to be captured by camera:

 The boys walked back and Anders posed (as per tradition) on Anders Point:

 Upon returning home they were given clues to help them find items to put together a shelter:

 They lashed and duct taped a shelter and then moved on to the fire starting.  Oh, yeah, fire! Flint and steel was given a huge chance but we finally resorted to a lighter:

 And snow for extinguishing:

 Next it was presents and cake:

 It was an awesome party and I think everyone had a good time.  After the party our boys went out and retried the fire and they were able to get it going with the flint and steel and they also reconfigured the shelter (tissue paper for tinder seemed to be the trick.  It lit much better than jewt).  

Pretty awesome party for a pretty awesome boy!