Girl Scout Troop 1009

Glow-a-Palooza. We had lots of fun lighting luminaries and helping with a firefly craft.

We were luminary lighting lunatics who lit up the lane. We set out 146 luminaries!

The craft was a paper firefly with an awesome glow-in-the-dark tip. Look how cute!

Volunteering at the Strawberry Jog.

We were course marshals. We guided the runners along a 5k path. 5 kilometers is equal to 3.10686 miles.

The fastest time of the Strawberry Jog was 20 minutes 40 seconds!

The Ohio Caverns. The start of our two day trip around Ohio! They are a steady 54 degrees Fahrenheit all year long (Brr!). The caverns range from 30 feet underground to their lowest point of 103 feet. We took the Natural Wonder Tour.

The Crystal King is the largest formation in the Ohio Caverns. It is 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 400 pounds. At 200,000 years old, the Crystal King is stunning!

Here's an example of the cool cave formations we saw. What does it look like to you? Some say a water spigot and others say a bungee jumping horse.

Stalactites hang tight to the ceiling and stalagmites might reach the ceiling someday. At the beginning of the tour, our guide turned off all the lights sending us into total darkness. We couldn't see our hands when they were an inch from our face.

When we were in the caverns our tour guide warned us that we might see bats. We saw one cute little bat but luckily, it was asleep.

After walking up the sixty stairs to get out of the caverns, we did gem mining.

We found gold! Fool's gold that is, along with many other cool rocks and gems.

When we left the Ohio Caverns, we went to Benny's for dinner. We had homemade root beer and pizza. Then we checked into our hotel.

We went to their exercise room. Look how strong we are!

98...99...100!

Relaxing in a HOT hot tub!

Cosi. An awesome science center! We stayed there all day, starting with the adventure into the Valley of the Unknown. We had to discover animal symbols through challenges in order to unlock a secret code. There were spooky singing idols including B’Raz-Oa (the spirit of reason) and P’Lunk (the spirit of questions). Other exhibits we went to were Gadgets, Water, and Life.

Oceans. It was wet and it was fun! We made waves, listened to water make music, and balanced balls on shoots of water.

Science-on-a-cart. As we traveled from exhibit to exhibit we got to see experiments. This one shows how the lighter ping pong balls pop to the surface while the heaver metal balls stay below the beans.

This water coated ball can't roll away. No matter how much we rolled it, it wouldn't move. If you look in the background of this picture you can see the whispering walls.

Posing for the camera! This is Progress. We were transported back to the year of 1898 (100 years before we were born).

When we turned the corner and we time traveled 64 years into the future. We were in 1962. Gas was 29 cents and cell phones didn't exist.

This was a hair-raising, electrifying activity! The picture on the left shows right before the line gets a jolting shock.

The last thing we did at Cosi was the green screen. There we traveled to the moon and got attacked by killer bees. We got run over by trains. It was a fun ending to an awesome trip!

We're scooper duper! At Lake Farmpark's Ice Cream Festival we scooped over 700 ice cream sundaes. The most popular ice cream was mint chocolate chip. Yum!

We love ice cream!

Serving lots of delicious ice cream.

Cleaning the beach at Lakefront Lodge to earn From Shore To Sea IP. We picked up two and a half garbage bags of trash!

The Wilds. An awesome animal safari. It is 10,000 acres and is home to over 25 non-native and hundreds of native species.

Where are we supposed to be right now?

Our tour was two and a half hours on the open-air safari bus, in one hundred degree weather!

Feeding the catfish at one of the stops along the way.

What! Don't we taste good?

The animals loved posing for the camera. Our tour guide (who is also a girl scout) explained what the ear tags on the animals mean. The color represents the year and which ear it's on depends on if it's a boy or a girl. Boys have it on their right ear because they think they are always right. Girls have it on their left ear because they know they are right and have already left.

Keeping cool...

The Wilds gift shop.

Resting at Walnut Creek after the Wilds.

Stopping at Der Dutchman for dinner.

2012 Girl Scout Pool Party!

Down the water slide!

Splish!

Splash!

We toured and learned about Foster's Ice Cream and then we ate some delicious desserts!

Horseback riding at Maypine Farms.

Taking turns grooming Andi.

Nicole rode Cosmo.

Amy rode Andi.

Bethany rode Paddy.

Kathryn rode Bear.

Nicole and Amy volunteered 26 hours at Twilight Camp. Nicole was the PA for the Golden Girls (nine-year-olds). Amy was the PA for the Blue Diamonds (eight-year-olds). Our camp names were Smiley (Nicole) and Skittles (Amy). Here is a list of everything we did at camp: tie-dye, seed art, terrariums, boats made out of milk cartons, leave no trace board game, painting rocks with nail polish, bocce ball, dutch oven cooking, field study, pond study, creek hike, nocturnal animals, campfire songs, and flag ceremonies. I feel tired just listing everything we did!

These pictures were taken on our first day of camp. Nicole was writing the Girl Scout Promise and Amy was cutting out name tags.

Volunteering at the Imagination Library booth at Kirtland's Strawberry Festival. Drawing on a reading graffiti poster.

Being A Girl Scout Fun Day at Penitentiary Glen.

Playing so many games of tug-a-war that my hands still hurt!

Cutting lots and lots of cardboard to make twenty Xs and twenty Os for Tic-Tac-Toe.

Preforming a science experiment where you combine baking soda, vinegar, soap, and food coloring to make a really cool volcano!

Showing girls how to make hoop airplanes. An interesting fact is that hoop airplanes are based off of Flettner ship. Flettner ship is designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. Google it!

Sitting in an awesome pink tent used for storytelling.

Setting up Tic-Tac-Toe and a Daisy Petal game.

Chopping some onions (holding back tears!).

Marching in the 2012 Memorial Day Parade.

Hanging out before the parade waiting for it to start.

Watching the ceremony afterwards and catching up with some old friends from Time Warp 2.0.

Learning the ins and outs of working at Menchie's for our "I Scream For Ice Cream" interest patch. We got to cut strawberries, take out the trash, fill the frozen yogurt machines, and my personal favorite, eat the frozen yogurt! Yum!

We all give Menchie's a big thumbs up!

Acting silly and eating our frozen yogurt.

A behind the scenes look at May 12, 2012 (The Girl Scout Talent Show!) It was very fun and there were only a few technical difficulties. We all can't wait to do this again next year!

Selling tickets to see our amazing talent show. Prepaid tickets were $3.00 and tickets at the door were $4.00. We had 324 people buy tickets.

Miss Nancy giving last minute stage directions to our 114-year-old Girl Scouts. They're all from the year of 1912.

Setting up lots and lots of water and cookies for everyone to eat during our twenty minute intermission.

Moving our double-sided time machine. Also, to all those who know that the self-destruct button on it wasn't the original button, guess what was found a few days after the talent show...

Claire, our mistress of ceremonies, giving one of the troops that performed the daisy barrettes we made.

Munching on our cookies during intermission and hoping everyone loves the show!

Claire at the podium announcing the next act.

Singing "Hooray for Girl Scouts" and "G For Generosity" before taking our final bows. The audience loved us!

Signing our autographs for all the little girls who loved our "Discovering Daisy" skits.

Posing for the cameras with our mini Oscars at the end of the talent show.

The final rehearsal of "Discovering Daisy" before the actual performance.

Setting up our campsite on the Andrews Osborne stage.

"One small step for girls. One giant leap for Girl Scout kind!" we said as we became the first Girl Scouts to ever time travel.

Juliette Gordon Low telling the spookiest, funniest, shortest ghost story y'all will ever hear.

Trying to be helpful, Amy might have yelled a little too loud. She knocked our socks off (actually she knocked Kathryn out of her chair)!

Trying to get cell phone reception in 1912. It didn't work.

As the 2012 girls dance to "Party Rock" the 1912 girls all agree that they're just having spasms.

Taking our bows as our invisible crowd goes wild!

Our directors, Miss Kim and Miss Nancy, hard at work.

Amy and Nicole making 108 daisy barrettes for the talent show.

Gillian, Tina, and Carli went to get their 1912 costumes for the talent show skits.

Building our double sided time machine for this year's talent show skits, Discovering Daisy. Nicole and Amy worked on the present day time machine. Carli, Tina, and Kathryn worked on the past day time machine. Both sides turned out awesome!

Gorge hike at Penitentiary Glen. We climbed many waterfalls and learned about the history of the gorge. Despite all the slippery spots no one fell!

Iron Crafters at Pat Catan's. The theme was cake and our secret ingredient was mesh fabric. We had two hours and a $25 gift card to make the cake. We won first place!

Face painting and dressing as bunnies for the Emeritus Assisted Living Easter Party.

Cookie Walkabout near the Browning Center.

This shows how determined we were to sell the rest of the cookies. We climbed this driveway!

If you squint really hard you can see us at the top. Sadly, when we knocked on the door no one answered.

Face painting at the Willoughby Hills Easter party. We also got our picture taken with the Easter bunny.

Going to Geauga County's Rescue Village to complete the Service Project for the Pets IP on March 27th.

Spraying the thirty-some fleece toys we brought with catnip. We also brought braided dog tugs.

A cute dog with a tennis ball addiction. He was just one of the many adorable animals.

Making yummy dog treats from oatmeal, honey, and peanut butter. They looked good enough to eat. (Actually Gillian and Tina did taste test them!)

Cookie Walkabout on March 25th. We went door to door asking people, walking a total of four and a half miles. We ended up selling 104 boxes of cookies and receiving over twenty dollars in donations.

After the St. Patrick's Day Parade, we stuffed lots of Easter eggs at Emeritus Assisted Living in Willoughby for the April 1st Easter egg hunt. We stuffed the eggs with candy and temporary tattoos for the kids.

Marching in the 2012 Cleveland St. Patrick's Day Parade to celebrate the 100th birthday of Girl Scouts. There were half a million people watching the parade in 80 degree weather! To see us march click on the link below. We show up five minutes and twenty-two seconds into it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player%20embedded&v=tgtVyKBuuQM

Sitting in the shade of the banner and hiding from the sun.

Miss Kim's funky green hairdo!

Playing a giant guitar in the Galleria. We went there to eat lunch after the parade.

Megan and Claire with YA author Chris Crutcher at Hiram College. He autographed their copies of "Deadline".

Claire and Megan at the Hiram College campus.

March 13th 2012

Our troop banner that we will carry in the St. Patrick's Day parade, created by Nicole and Amy. It took three and a half hours to finish.

Willoughby Lions Club pancake breakfast at Willoughby Browning Center from 8:30am to 1:00pm. We sold cookies. Megan and Nicole were the first shift. Amy and Megan were the second shift. We sold over fifty boxes. Also, the blueberry pancakes they served were delicious!

Carli and Kathryn deliver nonperishables to the Willoughby / Eastlake City Schools Food Pantry at Jefferson School.

At the Heinens on Ridge Rd. in Willoughby Claire, Tina, and Amy sold cookies on March 4th from 11:30 to 2:30pm.

The day before Kathryn, Gillian, and Bethany sold cookies at Giant Eagle in Loehmann's Plaza from 10:00 to 12:30am.

Great Lakes Mall cookie booth where we had lots of fun and sold lots of cookies (114 boxes).

Each girl brought a dish of food having to do with their heritage for our very own Thinking Day 2012. Yum!

Sarah presenting her independent study on the history of Scouts. An interesting fact is that S.W.A.P.S. stands for Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere!

It was a freezing cold and super windy cookie booth at Sam's Club. Yet despite the snow and hail we sold 152 boxes of cookies and got $17.50 in donations. Brrr!

Helping to run Daisy Troop 70778's first meeting. We did crafts, played games, and sang songs.

Playing scarf limbo.

Reading the Girl Scout Promise.

Our campout, February 3rd - February 5th, at Camp Sugarbush. It was full of hard work and lots of fun.

All of us standing outside our cabin, Raccoon Roost.

The "Human Knot!"

Megan, Bethany, Amy, and Nicole rested on their sleeping bags reading a good book.

Claire and Kathryn listened to music on their comfy beds.

Carli and Tina washed the mess kits and dishes from our Friday night dinner of pie iron pizza and dump cake.

Amy prepped our warm and toasty cast iron stove so we could make our late lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches.

Our perfect fire that lit on our fisrt try! Used for roasting hot dogs and s'mores.

Following the blind trail trying not to step in mud puddles and on tree roots.

Cheering Tina on at the Green Theater which we found while exploring the camp.

Miss Kim's turn for a piggy back ride.

Claire, Clari, Amy, Nicole, Bethany, Tina, and Megan help Troop 70496 run the service unit mother/daughter bingo night from 6:30-8:30

at North High School. Our help fullfills a requirement for bridging to Senior. (Tina was hiding below).

Salvation Army Share-a-Christmas at Hope Church.

Volunteering at Lake Farmpark as Santa's elves. We handed out toys, refilled paint and water buckets, laid down fresh newspaper, and worked the popcorn machine.

Making over seventy Christmas cards and birthday cards for Hospice patients.

Sand art cookie and holiday bean soup Mason jars.

Running games, crafts, and face painting at ABB Christmas party on December 3, 2011

Volunteer Night at Lake Farmpark's Holiday Lights

WMS Talent Show

Taking down flags for the winter at Eastlake's Boulevard of 500 Flags

Rocky Horror Picture Show tent at Haunted Hayride

Dance Showcase at Playhouse Square.

Met author Cinda Chima promoting her new book - The Grey Wolf Throne. Cinda likes this picture so much she's passing it on to her publicist.

Camporee skit - Camping is magical.

Posting the colors.

Team-building PAs.

Letterboxing leaders.

Downtime at the pool.

Our campsite--the Athadanac Adirondacks.

Haunted Hayride audition day. We're in!

Lake Farmpark Ice Cream Festival

Geocaching at Cascade Falls Park, Elyria.

Ice cream servers at Service Unit 762's Leader Recognition Ice Cream Social.

Who doesn't love baby pigs!

Nicole, Kathryn, Penney & Tracey get CPR and First-Aid certified.

Friday night campfire.

Archery PAs.

Swap meet.

Meals at Thompson Hall.

Gorge hike.

Sha'Ran at The Dance Stop, helps us with our Haunted Hayride routine.

Timewarp practice for Haunted Hayride

Pool party at Osborne Pool

Marching in the Willoughby Memorial Day parade.

Attending the Cadette Summit at Camp Ledgewood in Peninsula. Since we could all go our own ways, it was hard to get pictures. I only got a few shots since I was usually assigned other duties. Here we are outside the dining hall before lunch.

Here we are eating breakfast together on our last day. The only meal we all ate together.

Megan labored over her duct tape bag.

At the archery field.

Team-building games (pictures courtesy of Tracey Fiorelli)

Our troop hosts the Girl Scout Talent Show at Andrews-Osborne Academy and performs their original skit: Mystery of the Missing Meatball.

Working as Easter bunnies and face painters at Emeritus Assisted Living Easter party in Willoughby.

Working at the Willoughby Hills Easter party.

Trip to Columbus, Ohio to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. Agenda: visit The Topiary Park at the Old Deaf School ; walk through Schiller Park in German Village; watch a Civil War-era presentation at the Statehouse; lunch at The North Market; Civil War-era commemorative program at Ohio Village; dinner on High Street at OSU.

Posing in the topiary garden replica of the George Seurat Impressionist painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte at the Old Deaf School park in Columbus.

Watching a Civil War era re-enactment on the Statehouse steps.

Learning a Civil-War era dance at the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio Village.

Playing Civil-War era games.

First drill after enlisting in the Ohio Village Militia.

Strive to Survive Seminar at Kang Do Won Martial Arts Institute in Wickliffe.

Visit to Q104 to hype Girl Scout cookies on air and record a cookie commercial.

Assisting at a Gold Award ceremony.

Sorting food donations at the Willoughby Food Pantry.

Representing the Czech Republic at Thinking Day 2011.

After watching The Miracle Worker at Geauga Lyric Theater, we got a chance to talk to the cast and crew and take a tour backstage. Here we are posing with the actresses who played Helen Keller (front center, in hat) and Annie Sullivan (behind Helen.)