Cold but GLORIOUS!

This weekend, Jacob and I went on a camp-out with the Boy Scouts for the annual "new Scout" camp-out (where the rookies get to work on rank requirements). We didn't leave until 6:00 pm on Friday (just in time for the temps to start dropping) and got to the campsite at about (Jacob's guess because I didn't pay attention) 6:30-6:45 ish. The mini-mountain that we were camping on top of had been covered with snow and ice until.........about 23 kids and 5 Leaders showed up and had to go up and down over and over and over and well, you get the idea. The temps on Saturday hovered right around 35-38 which means that NOTHING, not even mud, stays frozen. Saturday night the temps dropped to around 25 or maybe lower. Sunday morning's flag ceremony (12 rookies each practicing raising and lowering the flag) in the wind {temps around 25 before figuring wind-chill} was COLD!!!

Now for the glorious part. Both nights, there was a definite lack of cloud cover mixed with a half moon with about a million stars thrown in for good measure. It was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!
Then, on Friday night as everyone was TRYING to stay warm and get some sleep, there was something that kept on making a weird scream-type call (I thought maybe a cub was calling its mom){I then remembered the hibernation rule} which the Scoutmaster (Forest Preserve Patrol Officer){Game Warden for you Southerners} told me it was a variety of owl.
Saturday night was a replay of Friday night but with a distinct WHOO-WHOO-WHOO of yet another owl. I thought that it was such an awesome thing that God created such beauty just for us to enjoy.