Well, I have partially recovered from a girl scout weekend! A local GS unit sponsored a local "Mall-lock in." Theme of the event was Mall Olympics. Each troop was to have a "booth" or activity related to the Olympics. Our troop had a balloon relay - put an inflated balloon between the knees, race to your partner, hand off to partner, then race back to the finish line! If you drop the balloon, pick it back up and keep going. That was hilarious!

The girls brought sleeping bags and were camped out near the Target entrance. Of course, there was not much sleeping. Games were held throughout the course of the evening. Fortunately for me, our booth was from 10-11:50 p.m. Other troops were not so lucky - their events were from 3-4:30 a.m. There were also skits and dances. Food was around all night - salad bar and veggies all night; pizza from midnight to 1 am; and ice cream from 3-4 am. Breakfast from 5 am-7 am. The girls had a blast!!!! Most stayed up for most of the event. I got 20 minutes of sleep. The adults also had sentry duty at various times - I pulled a 3 am shift in front of the pet store (keep girls from annoying the dogs). We also had to make sure that no one left the mall and that no damage was done in the restrooms.

We got home Sunday am about 9 am. I took nap #1 from 9-12:30 pm and nap #2 from 2-5 pm. Then off to bed at 10 pm and back to work today. Whew!!! I was so tired that I could not even move. And to add insult to injury, DH said that I snored!!! But DD came to my defense and told the truth!

Our next GS adventure will be a weekend at a camp in the local mountains at the end of March. But this time, all activities will be taken care of and the leaders will do nothing..... (I can only hope)