This weekend has been CRAZY! Kyle had the annual fathers and sons campout to go to with the boys, and I had my cabin trip with half of my girl scouts. Which meant that we needed to figure out what to do with Chloe, Lydia and Adam. Adam ended up going along with Kyle and the boys. Kyle didn’t really want to take him considering he is still so young (and in diapers), but I knew Adam would be more comfortable with Daddy and his brothers in a tent than at somebody else’s house. For Chloe and Lydia I made arrangements with them to have an overnighter with one of the neighbors. We debated on having a young woman from the neighborhood spend the night at our house with them, but Kyle REALLY didn’t like that idea.
As I got ready to leave yesterday morning, Lydia was super excited about her upcoming adventures for the weekend.
At the cabin we worked on the Flowers badge for the juniors, and so the girls got to go out on a hike to look for and draw some flowers. We didn’t have any special badges for the daisies to work on, but we let them observe and draw flowers too.
One of my co-leaders had access to a solar oven so we brought that along. We had planned on making brownies, or maybe cooking our pizza dinner in it, but when we saw that it wasn’t going to get hot enough for that we decided to make our smores in it (since we can’t have a fire to roast the marshmallows with).
Along with the flowers badge, another of my co-leaders decided to teach the girls how to make flowers out of gum paste. Tyra chose to make a daisy.
I had a “hiking is fun” patch to give to the girls so we actually went on two hikes. The first was up to the water tank. While we were up there, one of my co-leaders wanted to see if the letterbox her daughter left up there was still there. So the girls began hunting for it, and Dinah was the one to find it. That letterbox contained a clue to the location of a second letterbox. Our second hike was down to the beaver dam. Along the way we passed by where the second letterbox was hidden. Again, my co-leader wondered if it was still there, and tried looking for it. But it wasn’t where she and her daughter had left it. Once again, Dinah was the one to find it. Here she is standing next to where it was in the grass. 🙂
The girls had a really good time. From what I heard they didn’t sleep much because they were up all night talking. From the room of the cabin that I slept in, I didn’t hear the girls at all. But I heard one of my co-leaders telling them to be quiet several times through night. Hopefully the boys got some sleep at their campout because I didn’t get much. 🙂