Tuesday,  June 18, 2013

 Today was a pretty laid back day but we did a LOT. I was very happy to see Sarah after she spent the night at Gammy and Papa's house with Grace. 

We went from the flag to Pinelot where we learned to pitch tents. The girla did a great job of this. They got to pitch pink pup tents and Sarah and Grace even helped to pitch a large green "round up tent" which was not to easy to get up. 

After that it was time to swim. I dove in the pool because the girls wanted to see me go off the diving board. The water was pretty chilly!!!  

It ended up feeling pretty good.  

Then we got changed and headed to our unit to eat. I decided that I would go through the badge book so that we could figure out what badges they could earn.   So we started out by working on the Senses badge while eating lunch and the Hiking badge while walking from Sleepy Hollow to the program center.   We are also going to try to work on the Making Friends badge and the Girl Scout Way. We may even work on First Aid and Bugs for the girls who haven't earned those badges. 

After lunch we headed to PC to learn about maps and compasses. They played a game with a lifesized compass and then we walked around with directions for the compasses trying to follow the correct directions. We did  OK. I don't think we were exactly correct but we did OK. 

After that we made edible fire which entailed us making a fire circle with cheerios and marshmallows. Then we made logs out of big pretzels,  twigs were small pretzels, potato sticks were the kindling. Then we added twizzlers for the fire and we ate them up. 

It was then time for flag and it was time to head home. I'm so glad thay Sarah has not had to deal with the misery of the bus. We are waiting at Old Bethel for one little girl to get picked up.  It's hot and I'm very tired and we are 5 minutes for our stop. 

Happy day other than the bus. 

 

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