girl scouts
we took the girls camping this weekend. it was, to say the least, INSANE!!! These are city girls we're talking about here...this was their VERY first campout. we were in cabins, not tents; we cooked on a gas stove, not a fire; they had flush toilets...you know, fake camping.
I went up the second day as I had a class on Saturday that I couldn't miss. So, I moseyed up Saturday evening. When I got there, the girls seemed to be in good spirits, but I was informed that they had hardly slept the night before because they were up and down all night with 'bug bites (in JANUARY?!), bonked heads, stomach aches, growing pains in their BOOBS, spiders, wasps, headaches, cramps....
so, they played around jumping rope, doing a parachute, and tug of war. When the girls making dinner were finally done, we ate, and then did a 'campfire' with charcoal on a bbq as there was a burn ban. so we sang some songs (for tori and beth: striped skunk, charmin' betsy, little bar of soap, the shark song, etc. you know, the silly ones) roasted marshmallows for s'mores, and then headed to bed. the brownies (our little girls) went right off, no problem. the juniors, however, made us tuck them in, sing to the, etc...we (the adults) finally made it into our cabin and were getting into bed when we hear the girls screaming bloody murder and running. the come into our cabin, tears streaming down their faces, shaking with fright. apparently some of the girls had been in the cabin when they saw a shadow on the side that looked like a beckoning finger. They bolted from the cabin screaming. when the other girls, who had been in the bathroom, heard them, they came running out, ran into tree branches and started screaming, too. by the time they made it to our cabin, they were in a panic and half of them didn't even know why they were upset, just that the other girls were upset. it took us the better part of an hour to get them calmed down, and then they refused to go back to their cabin, even when we showed them the branch that made the shadow. They ended up in sleeping bags on the floor of our cabin. They then proceeded to wake me up every hour to go to the bathroom, get a blanket, make my buddy get up, get my inhaler, etc. i was about to strangle them by the time we finally got up this morning (at 8:00 by the way, a totally unheard late hour when camping!)
we finally got packed out this morning, only an hour and a half late...
i was only there a day and I'm more tired from those 8 girls than a whole troop of boy scouts for the entire weekend makes me.
oh, ladies, we will have to teach you how to camp.
tor, beth, wanna come help?
I went up the second day as I had a class on Saturday that I couldn't miss. So, I moseyed up Saturday evening. When I got there, the girls seemed to be in good spirits, but I was informed that they had hardly slept the night before because they were up and down all night with 'bug bites (in JANUARY?!), bonked heads, stomach aches, growing pains in their BOOBS, spiders, wasps, headaches, cramps....
so, they played around jumping rope, doing a parachute, and tug of war. When the girls making dinner were finally done, we ate, and then did a 'campfire' with charcoal on a bbq as there was a burn ban. so we sang some songs (for tori and beth: striped skunk, charmin' betsy, little bar of soap, the shark song, etc. you know, the silly ones) roasted marshmallows for s'mores, and then headed to bed. the brownies (our little girls) went right off, no problem. the juniors, however, made us tuck them in, sing to the, etc...we (the adults) finally made it into our cabin and were getting into bed when we hear the girls screaming bloody murder and running. the come into our cabin, tears streaming down their faces, shaking with fright. apparently some of the girls had been in the cabin when they saw a shadow on the side that looked like a beckoning finger. They bolted from the cabin screaming. when the other girls, who had been in the bathroom, heard them, they came running out, ran into tree branches and started screaming, too. by the time they made it to our cabin, they were in a panic and half of them didn't even know why they were upset, just that the other girls were upset. it took us the better part of an hour to get them calmed down, and then they refused to go back to their cabin, even when we showed them the branch that made the shadow. They ended up in sleeping bags on the floor of our cabin. They then proceeded to wake me up every hour to go to the bathroom, get a blanket, make my buddy get up, get my inhaler, etc. i was about to strangle them by the time we finally got up this morning (at 8:00 by the way, a totally unheard late hour when camping!)
we finally got packed out this morning, only an hour and a half late...
i was only there a day and I'm more tired from those 8 girls than a whole troop of boy scouts for the entire weekend makes me.
oh, ladies, we will have to teach you how to camp.
tor, beth, wanna come help?