Last night was a lot of fun. The girls were pretty well behaved. They got a little crazy at times, but they are kids. They settled down at lights out a lot faster than I thought they would. Definitely a lot faster than they did at camp last fall.
The Magic House had a more structured schedule than the one we had at The City Museum last year, but they seemed to have a hard time sticking to it. I mean, you expect it to be off some, but our troop was only given about 25 minutes to complete the 5 art projects they needed to complete to get their badge for the night. They also did not get to spend much time in the older part of the museum.
The new part is really cool. They have a fairy tale room and a giant three story bean stalk that the kids can climb on. There is a big music area with giant musical instruments. On the top floor of the new addition there's a mystery area where you can follow clues in an old library type room to figure out "who done it."
The library also has a secret passage that you can get to by going through the fire place or a revolving bookcase that has a secret button to open it. It's a Sherlock Holmes book that opens the door. There's a slide in the secret passage way.
On the bottom floor of the new part there is a court room, the Oval Office and an auditorium type room where kids can sing patriotic songs. Of course there are other things like air tubes and a tunnel to crawl through, also. There is a Poet Tree where kids can write poems and put them on the tree.
We were given pizza as a snack. They had it brought in from Domino's. Each person was allowed two pieces and also got a drink. It was good and I was ready to sit down and have a snack by the time we got our turn to eat.
The room our troop slept in was the meeting place for everyone so we could not even start to settle down until all the other troops came and got their stuff. It was VERY COLD in that room, too. We froze most of the night.
And, of course it picked early morning, middle of the night, to snow like crazy. Luckily it's been warm long enough that it did not stick to pavement. So, driving home was not bad.
I took about an hour nap this morning. Michaela zonked out for about four hours. But, she did take some allergy medicine when we got home, so I'm sure that contributed to it.
I've spent the rest of the day finishing up grades and getting my report cards finished. I'm so glad that job is over. It's such a task. Our district still doesn't have our online system set up to just print out report cards from the grades we put in the system so we have to get the grades off the system and record them on report cards ourselves still. It's rather annoying. Putting it all online is supposed to make our job easier, but we're just doing extra work. Gee, that's kind of par for the course of our district.
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