All State Swaps I & II

I signed up for Missouri Swaps for Database I, then signed up for Wyoming SWAPS for Database II. Sent them out this morning.
for Missouri SWAPS I used the themes of KC Royals, KC Chiefs, Calamity Jane, & PSF.
for Wyoming SWAPS I used the theme of Equality for Women & Wild Bill Hickock.
(I also used lots of fun foam, beads, glitter glue, markers,glue, safety pins, tape, & computer clip art.
I ordered patches for the whole troop, even though I hogged all the fun to myself. When the SWAPS come in, we'll draw #s for the girls to each get some to keep. (I'll have to take pics of them first!)

Ashley & Flat Jenni are headed to their next troop

they jumped back in their box today with a bunch of souveniors from their adventures here in Mercer, & went to Mercer Post Office to start on the next leg of their journey!
Carly Cardinal is supposed to leave her host troop & head for home next week.

postcard from Poland

Katie didn't want to do the World Wide Thinking Day Postcard Exchange again, but she has fun arranging the post cards that come home with her Flat Stacies, so when a troop from Poland emailed me off site about exchanging post cards, I sent them one, & they sent us one back that arrived today,complete with cool artwork on the card! and the Polish stamps & postmarks from the envelope it arrived in!

Brownie the Dog

has arrived from Mckinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Welcome to Mercer!!!

Katie's Flat Stacie has arrived at her destination!

rec'd email confirmation today. They asked if we could host more than one Stacie, which they plan to send out the end of the month. I plan on this being our last Flat Stacie exchange, so we'll go out with a bang!

Outdoor Adventure/Wildlife Meeting

ended up being an indoor meeting because of recent rain. Mackenzie, Moriah, Morrisa, Katie, Dominique, Lindsay, Jazmine, Breanna, & Cortney had lots of fun. We started with the Girl Scout Law in a circle with motions, then passed around the visiting mascot & Stacie, their postcards, Maryland book, handed out the swaps they sent us, & listened to Ashley of Assateague's story.
we drew #s for the swaps we recieved from Swapmania, nobody claimed the Lucky Bunny Flat Stacie, so we drew for the stuff in her box that she came home from New York with.
We did an indoor imaginary nature investigation, talking about what we could see in our circle if we were at the park. We learned about endangered animals in Missouri.
We played Crows & Cranes, did an indoor Touch Smell Listen, What's in a Name, made pet rock swaps & pet rocks.
We had s'mores for our snack.
Moriah got her swap hat & made her name swap.
Shelley & Deb want mom shirts. Will check with the other moms.
Registration forms turned in:
Deb & Cortney
Deb & Katie
Lindsay
Breanna
Jazmine
Mackenzie
Dominique
Morrisa
Kayla

need:
Moriah
Kelsie
Morgan

the girls had a lot of fun making pet rocks! There was lots & lots of giggling
We ended our meeting with a Friendship Circle & Friendship Squeeze.

rec'd an email

that our mascot has arrived safely in Sioux City, Iowa!