Wild Weekend With The Girls

Last weekend was our Camporee with the Girl Scouts. For those of you not familiar with Girl Scouts, this means you stick LOTS of girl scouts together and hope it works. Since I will be a co-leader next year, I was asked to go along to help. With our two troops combined, we had 15 girls. To make matters worst, we on the east coast are having a heat wave. So we were camping in cabins in 95-98 degree weather. To make things even more challenging, the camp was 600 acres and you had to walk over a mile to get to each event or activity. Sometimes I sware we had to walk about 3 miles. On top of this, there was a stomach thing going around. Our troop sort of looked like the walking wounded. The total at the end was 3 stomach bugs, 2 foot rot (from sweat), lots of scraps and bruises and one leader with a pulled muscle in her leg. I swear we spent half time telling the kids to drink more water and soaking them with water to cool them off. Even with all the problems, I think most of the girls had fun. Some of the other leaders really got on my nerves, but your going to get that in the heat with 150 girls. Lauren had a great time, except for the first night when her stomach was hurting. I first thought it was stress until the next morning when I found out she was not the only girl with stomach trouble. Here are some pictures.

See the cabins up on the hill, they were ours. NICE

Lauren in Archery

Lauren learning to use a compass

Craft time.

Our group, minus one