Technically Sadie's Girl Scout Troop took a break for summer, but the girls sold so many girl scout cookies that they earned $36 per girl to go back to our troop! When we had a parent meeting at the end of the year, we decided we would use part of the money to let the girls celebrate & then we would roll the rest of it to our troop for next year. We gave the girls several options & they chose a trip to the Dallas Arboretum. However, when I originally suggested this, it was back in the spring. I had no idea we would go in the middle of July when it was literally 100 degrees outside! These girls didn't care though because they were just so excited to see each other again:
As soon as we got there, we headed straight to the main gardens to walk around & the girls found a water fountain/splash pad right away:
They had so much fun running & splashing around! Next stop, the koi pond where they had fun looking at fish:
The girls loved watching the fish! We even gave each of them a penny & they all made a wish at the same time. That might have been my favorite part of our afternoon :)
I don't think they quite appreciated the main gardens as much as we do, so we headed to the children's garden:
where they found another splash pad to play in. Afterwards, we took a snack break. Since Sunday was National Ice Cream Day, we brought little blue bell ice cream cups:
After we climbed the treehouse, we went to another children's area & we couldn't help but laugh because even with all of the outside activities, our girls still ended up at the computers. Go figure:
Last stop, the water station:
It was such a fun afternoon even though it was hot out there. Even the moms had fun visiting with each other since we hadn't seen each other much this summer:
I am so proud of these girls for working so hard in selling girl scout cookies earlier this year! I have a feeling they will be motivated to sale even more next year:
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