Early Bird Contest....HELP

Each year Girl Scout Councils have a patch design contest for the upcoming year's "Early Bird" patch. This is given to each girl who registers early for the next Girl Scout year. We have recently moved to the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Council where I am the Leader for both of my daughters Junior troop (4th and 5th grade). The girls in the Council (126 counties) were asked to submit a drawing for the 2013 Early Bird patch for the theme "Active U." The winning design will be the patch given out to girls in our Council!

My daughter Lauren entered the contest and made it into the top 12. The Council has posted the pictures on FB for voting. My daughter drew a variety of things a girl could do to be active. Her drawing and another are SUPER close in the voting process....it is going to be close! My daughter would be so excited and honored if her design wins!

Please help Lauren by casting a vote!
Voting ends Friday at 7:30 ET
Go to FB HERE and click on drawing #7 and then "like" her picture!

Adventures at Erdbeerland.....

Erdbeerland???.....
AKA as strawberry fields to us English speaking folk!

We headed to the fields to pick some fresh strawberries!

The kids didn't waste any time.....

They were very proud of their picking!
All we had to do was get our berries weighed....
What a deal!!
Over 4 kg (about 9 lbs) for only....
11,25 Euro!!

We will be going back soon!!!

How I got 2 boys to sleep peacefully!

Now I know what it takes to get Jacque and Ian sound asleep!!!

Here are the steps that I used in case you have little ones that keep going and going and going like I do.

1. Go to Wildpark (see details HERE)
2. Stay there for 4 hours and don't carry the little ones or give any stroller rides what so ever!
3. Feed them Hello Kitty popsicles...sugar them right as you are leaving!
4. Buckle them up.....safety first:)
Popsicle stick in mouth probably not so safe!
5. ENJOY the silence in 3 minutes tops as you drive home
6. Maybe even park for a while and enjoy the silence even more before driving all the way home because you will fail as you try very carefully to remove them from their car seats and carry them into the house without waking them up!!

Here is what my peace and quiet looked like yesterday!

Interesting day at the Wildpark!

To say I really enjoy living in Germany would probably be an understatement! We will soon be moving back to the states (less than a month to be more precise) and we visited one of the places that the kids love today.

As it turned out, there was also a Native American event today!
*This is quite strange to me since we live in a country where we are supposed to "blend" in with the locals as much as possible. This is the first event we've been to that had anything to do with the country WE are from.*

Not sure what was going on with this outfit!

There were plenty of animal skins to intrigue the kids....

Horse rides surely made their day.....

This colt didn't leave mom's side!

Archery.....big hit too!

Even fetching the arrows was fun...
Why are toys not as fun to fetch????

We were thirsty and needed a rest after all of this excitement!

We walked around the park and fed the animals!
I love that the kids can be "with" the animals rather than through a fence.

We will miss this place!

La Rambla

Heading to La Rambla....

La Rambla is an interesting street to say the least! The middle part of the road is pedestrianized and quite busy with performers, artists, flower stalls and many eating areas. Traffic passes on both sides of the pedestrian area so you are truly walking in the median.

The floating man....

Howdy partner....

Creepy baby....

Coal miner....

Paella anyone???

Cat Woman...

Ahoy mate!
The guys had fun with this one!

Was this REALLY necessary??

Pucker up!

Mud people??

Interesting place for sure!

L'Auquarium on the waterfront.....

We took a stroll down to the waterfront in Barcelona......

Ian kept taking one of his shoes off and holding it.
I panicked every time I saw a bare foot until I realized he was holding it!

L'Auquarium is down by the waterfront.
Lauren is walking through the bamboo to get to the sea life!

These bubbles are magnets for kids!

This whale was interesting.
You entered through the mouth to see a variety of jelly fish....
Fun playing...

We took the kids for ice cream and Popsicles and continued walking on the waterfront...

There is also something else by the waterfront that has to do with America.
Any ideas what it may be??