Camping Again?!

Who am I? I went camping AGAIN with Girl Scouts last weekend! This time with Drew's troop {but Paige tagged along}. Our troop of 3 leaders took 9 girls for an overnight trip to finish earning their 'Camping' badge and just went to a local place in our little town.

One of our campsites.

One of the great things about Girl Scouts is teaching the girls to be self-sufficient, so they did most of the setup including putting up both tents.

While we leaders finished getting things ready, I suggested the girls find rocks to make their troop number. They loved the idea and had a lot of fun!

Troop 45014 is the best!

There was a high probability of rain, but hey, we're Girl Scouts, so we weren't worried. We decided to take a walk and everybody wore rain jackets or ponchos. Sure enough, it rained on us, but we had a great time!

Our leaders!

'Enjoying' the rain

We got super fancy with dinner and had frito pies in a bag! They were as delicious as they were disgusting. {grin}

These got out of order from our hike, but I love Texas!

We warned the girls when they got in their tent that it was going to rain and they were going to hear lightening and thunder, but they were safe. Sure enough, it started raining, thundering, lightening...and didn't stop for hours.

One little scout slept through it all!

What we didn't plan on was the tents not being able to withstand HOW MUCH rain was coming down and they began to leak...badly. So at 2:30 we decided to pack-up. It took us a while to get all the girls packed and everything from the site picked up {including the tents}. We left at 3:45 and headed to my house.

Soaking wet after packing in the rain!

Just a little tired and wet!

How they busied themselves in my car, ha

Finally, down for the night at 4:30AM

Up bright and early the next morning!

One of our scouts was very worried that we wouldn't earn our Camping badge because we left, and I told her 'oh no, y'all definitely have earned your badge!' I also found a fun patch called Camping in the Rain, so I ordered that for them as well.

So let's hope this isn't how all our Girl Scouts camping events go!