Girl Scout Camp

So I must start off by saying that Brenna had a GREAT time at camp! I tell myself that's all that matters. Yes, by my tone you can see that I did NOT have a great time. LOL I am just being honest. (Ooooo! Some drama on the blog!! Finally! LOL!!)
First of all, Brenna and I are the only ones from the troop that went - besides her troop leader and her daughter. I really thought that more girls were going to go. I was stuck all day with a person that has absolutely no personality. Brenna's leader, I found out this weekend, is really not much of a 'kid person' (or much of a 'people person' either LOL). Why is she a troop leader, you ask? I have no idea!
So Brenna and I got there and there were lots of girls and their leaders/parents. It was an over-night thing so everyone was setting up their tents. We were told that the Daisy's (Kinder-1st) were NOT allowed to stay the night. After we got there we found out that they COULD stay the night after all. Her leader was pretty ticked (so was I) that we were not told before hand that they could. I would have LOVED to camp out with Brenna (we are campers so it would have been great!) BUT we did not have our stuff to do it and I am not a very good "last minute" person. So I dealt with the fact that we would just be there for the day and thought we would both have a wonderful time. Getting back to the fact that Brenna's leader is a 'crumb bum' ( a great word I picked up from my mother-in-law!) - for the first couple hours we just SAT THERE and she had no interest in socializing with other people. Why did I just sit there with her? Good question. I guess I just kept waiting for her to take some initiative (she IS the troop leader for goodness sakes!) but it never happened. I have never sat with someone in silence for so long as I did with her. It got to the point where it was uncomfortable conversation..."So what does your husband do?", "How old is your son again?"...blah, blah, blah.... I was trying to come up with anything that I could!! She would answer my question and that was that. The girls were playing real nice together though and Brenna wandered off and met quite a few new girls (my social little butterfly!).
Finally they started the 'organized events' (two hours later!) and split all the girls up into four different groups to do crafts. It really was fun and Brenna got to make some little wooden instruments, a cool little bird hat and some other things. Most of the time though I sat and listened to leaders, as well as Brenna's leader, get after the girls for doing this and that - seemed like boot camp!! Not the fun Girl Scout camp that I remembered as a kid. By this time I had quite a headache. After the craft things they had lunch and again, we sat by ourselves in our little spot and the two girls ate lunch with each other and I had to suffer through absolutely no conversation from Brenna's leader, AGAIN. After lunch all the girls played with all the toys they had (hoola hoops, baseball stuff, frisbies, horse shoes, ect...) By this time I was fed up with just sitting there, so I played with Brenna and the troop leaders' daughter. We threw frisbies, played sack races and kicked a soccer ball around. After a little while we had gathered quite a nice little group of girls and we were having so much fun! All the while Brenna's troop leader was just sitting there. I don't think that girl smiled so much as one time while we were there.
Brenna and I stayed until about 6:30 (we got there at 9:30am). I was going to wait until after we ate dinner but things were not going as planned and dinner was still a little ways off. Brenna was starting to get a little grumpy and I was so ready to go home. We had both been up at 6am that morning. It was about a 30 minute drive home so I figured it was a good time to leave.
I guess next time we have anything like that I will be prepared a little more and reliaze that Brenna's troop leader is NOT going to do much. Hopefully we will have more girls and more Moms go and have a little more fun.
After coming home and telling Brendon all about it, he is so for me starting my own Girl Scout troop. Maybe Brenna's leader will realize that she is not cut out for all this and then I will volunteer to take over. I think it would be a lot of fun. My Mom was my scout leader the whole time I was in scouts and we had such a great time!!
I guess we'll see what happens.
(BTW - no pics cuz my batteries were dead. UGH!)