WEEKEND IN COLUMBIA

With their cookie profit money, the girls decided to spend the weekend in Columbia visiting Riverbank Zoo and Edventure Children's Museum. This visit included an overnight stay at Staybridge Suites(Courtesy of Buddy Henderson). The girls enjoyed feeding the giraffes, rock climbing, pony riding, and 3 trips on the carousel. Oh, and the animals were pretty cool too.

After 5 hours at the zoo, we checked in at the hotel. The girls spent the rest of the afternoon swimming in the pool and playing around. For dinner, we ordered pizza. We spent the night snacking on candies and popcorn and giving the girls manicures and pedicures. They finally went to sleep at midnight!

On Sunday, we visited EdVenture Children's Museum. The girls got a kick out of the huge boy named Eddie. They were allowed to climb up and explore the insides of his human body. We visited different exhibits in the museum. Karley had fun pretending to be a newsreporter. Brianna enjoyed working on the farm, and Kyleah had fun playing dentist. One of the best things about EdVenture was visiting their Butterfly Garden. There were so many beautiful butterflies.

We left EdVenture around 2:30 and had lunch at Applebees. We arrived back to Greer around 5:30. This is how the girls spent their car ride home.

MEETING MAY 22, 2010

This meeting was held at Greer City Park. The girls enjoyed drawing with sidewalk chalk, blowing bubbles, playing on the playground, and eating McDonalds happy meals. For the last several weeks we have been growing lady bugs. At this meeting, we released the lady bugs. The lady bugs will go to the flowers at the park and help to keep the aphids off of them. This is our attempt to help a community garden. In doing so the girls have now received their Honey Bee Award.