>Invid Fan wrote:

>> In article <47101fe2$1$21904$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Loren Pechtel
>> hotmail.invalid.com> wrote:
>>

>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:03:36 GMT, "Brian Smith"
>>> hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>

>>>> I got the sense they took the holy books because a lot of the kids appear to
>>>> be quite religious in real life and they probably wanted the comfort from
>>>> something they are familiar with. The mini golf probably wouldn't have cut
>>>> it for very long. Plus, Jared seemed to have developed his own mini golf
>>>> course at the end of the show. :-)

>>> Sure, they might want holy books. What I'm not understanding is why
>>> if they wanted them they didn't bring them.

>>
>> They weren't allowed to, as the producers intended to offer them to the
>> kids?

>
>Yep, just as they probably weren't allowed to bring their own canned
>food or MREs either.
>
>I did see kids coming to Bonanza City with musical instruments though.
>It would be worth finding out just what the kids were told they could
>bring and what they were told they couldn't bring.