Party plans

The camping party is coming along nicely. Five of the seven guests have RSVP'd that they will attend, three are staying over. Haven't heard from the last two but their family could very well be out of town. We're going to try to make it out tomorrow to order the cake. We're also going to have pizza. We found some cute paper plates and napkins this weekend.

Violet wanted to do more craft activities than games. We've come up with painting drawstring backpacks, making toad houses (this may get scrapped as we look at the list and see if there is too much planned or it is getting too expensive, it will be painting terra cotta pots with a hole premade in the side for the toads), and making bead and safety pin, well pins I guess. In Girl Scouts we'd call them swaps. There will also be a make your own gorp bar (gorp is trail mix). If the weather permits we'll set it all up outside in the "art center".

For the overnight the girls will have to help set up the camp site, then they'll have hotdogs and s'mores. Not positive but I think we'll just do them on the grill. We're going to have friendship bracelets for them to work on. And Mr. Incredible is taking Ami. Mental's idea of a night time scavenger hunt and going nuts with it. He's getting a bunch of little stuff from Oriental Trading and making maps. It is going to be like geocaching and the girls will have to use clues to go from one box to another finding the stuff. Breakfast will just be cereal and fruit.

Of course Mr. Incredible and I are having fun with the theme. The powder room will be the latrine, the sink will be a wash basin. All drinks will be bug juice. We'd love to figure out a way to hang the cereal up outside in bear bags. The paper plates and things will be their mess kits. And we found cute little buckets in the Oriental Trading catalog to put their goodies in, the buckets will be called fire buckets. Violet is reconsidering Chuck E. Cheese, he's less embarrassing.

It is shaping up to be a good time. Now if only it doesn't storm!