Face it--no camping trip (or sleepover party) is complete without a scary story or two.

While I think that the whole scary-story thing might have been off the table at the recent Cub Scout campout behind the building where the Scouts meet, the tradition is alive and well among the older kids.

These are the same older kids who decided immediately that they need new sleeping bags as soon as they saw the one pictured on the right.  After all, what could be scarier than sleeping inside the mouth of a seven-foot shark?

Yes, it's a sleeping bag--plush outside, fiberfill inside (thirty pounds of it.)  Try rolling that up and getting it into the trunk of your car.

I know how my kids think.  They're imagining the possibilities here.  And they're thinking of the fun they could have if they took a sleeping bag like this one one of those all-night, "educational" campouts at the local aquarium.

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