Savannah with troop 380

Okay, we survived the trip to Savannah, on a bus full of scouts and moms and one dad...52 of us, all together. Very minimal drama, considering all the adolescent and perimenopausal personalities present. We actually had a great time.

Here we are the first night, at Lighthouse Pizza on Tybee Island, where we stayed. This was a pretty good pizza place. They had REAL CRUST! Look! The parents are all still in good humor! Granted, it's mostly relief to be done with the 12 hour bus ride, but we enjoyed the food and the company, too.

On Tuesday, our whole group went to Lady and Son's restaurant. This is Paula Deen's place (that's me on the right, posing with the cardboard cutout of the lady herself. The food was really good, although it was your basic fried chicken buffet. There was baked chicked and some sort of chicken fried steak, too. Also greens, okra, green beans. The dessert was awesome: Gooey Butter Cake. The name alone was worth the price of admission.

Okay, so you see me up there, with the cardboard cutout....that's my daughter, below, with the real live Jamie Deen. How cute is he? OMG...

Karen wasn't quite as thrilled, but we'll save this picture for her...she'll appreciate it in a few years.

Craft Camp Recovery Zone

Oh, my! What a weekend! Our junior girl scout troop went to spend a wonderful weekend at Camp Judy Layne near Cave Run Lake in Eastern Kentucky. To say we got off to a cold damp start is to say that Simon Cowell is a little bitchy, but we really wound up having a great time. There were lots of adults, which REALLY helped things flow...we were able to keep things moving for the girls while taking turns being "on duty".

Here is Karen's cabin and Stephanie Reynolds setting out to learn how to measure the distance to the bathroom by walking...

We earned 7 badges each! I am really proud of how well everyone did. There was minimal drama, of the 10-11 year old girl variety, but the girls deserve a badge in drama for their self-motivated and self-organized production of American Idol. I am so impressed with that...while supper was cooking on Saturday night, the non-cooking girls all went to the "Thicket Theater" and made up their own version of Americal Idol, complete with Randy, Simon, Paula and Ryan. The other girls did singing, dancing and comedy routines that they just made up there! So cool.

If we had tried to organize them to do something like that it would have never worked.

smiling happy Karen, inspite of the cold and damp!

Unfortunately, my camera pooped out very early on, so I don't have many pictures, but when the rest of the troop shares their pics, I'll post those, too!