You're all invited...

Through the Virtual World of course... :)

To Xanthe & Xoe's Girl Scout Patch Ceremony. It's like the Boy Scout's Court of Honor where they receive all their patches for what they've been working on. Nan and Amber and Heather will remember these. And guess what the theme is they chose? "Make New Friends". For those of you who don't know that Girl Scout song, the first verse goes, "Make New Friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other is gold." So, they are decorating the whole ceremony in, of course, Gold and Silver.

To get prepared, the troop split into committees. Xoe is on the "Decorating Committee" and they were getting ready tonight by painting a banner and stuffing the gold cups with silver napkins and silverware. They're VERY into this.

Xanthe is on the "Invitation Committee". (There's a "Food Committee" but we're not on that one). Anyway, the girls on the "Invitation Committee" got together at the Leader's House to each design an invitation and then the rest of the troop voted on it. And guess who's won? Xanthe's! Woohoo! And of course, check out the second page. She even insisted that it needed to be sewn. I don't know where these girls get it from! Too cool. So the whole troop was sewing, stamping and gluing their invitations the other day.

The Ceremony is on Wednesday, May 14. We'll let you know how it goes and post pictures. They're also "Bridging" which means they are moving up (or in Girl Scout talk "flying up") to a new level (like moving from Webelos to Cub Scouts...or is it the other way around?). They're no longer "Brownies". They're going to be "Juniors", which are considered "real" Girl Scouts and they'll be receiving their Brownie Wings to Fly Up. They get to say this little poem about accepting the challenge and then walk over a Bridge which symbolizes their "Bridging" to the new level. They're all very excited!