So we went

4 girls, 2 boys and 4 parents. It was a bit crazy and I take the blame there for most of it. I should have gone to cranbrook ahead of time, by myself and mapped out the plan of attack. My lack of familiarity with the exhibits caused a bit of chaos and I'm sorry for that. Part of it is just the nature of things when you have kids and even more with kids who have some special needs.

All in all we had a good time I think. I'm going to sit down and figure out exactly what we earned. There were a few exhibits I didn't expect but because I knew different try its out there that I wanted to do at one point or another I did wing it. So I'll edit this when I figure it out for you all to see.

Here's the list and the council we are getting the try its from:
Dinosaurs- Girl Scouts of DuPage County Council
Climate Change- Virginia Skyline
watersheds and me- Virginia Skyline
cosmic adventurer-Girl Scouts of Rolling Hills
archaeology- Girl Scouts of Central Indiana
let's get diggin'- Girl Scouts of Black Hawk
fossil safari- Girl Scouts of Black Hawk
Our Feathered Friends- Girl Scouts of Black Hawk
Rock On- girl Scouts of Middle Tennesse

I think if we have a follow up meeting with the girls to make a couple of crafts and a building project and eat a few treats then we can add to the list:
Creepy Crawlers- Rolling Hills
Engineering- Girl Scouts of Columbia River
Native American- Girl Scouts of San Diego-Imperial council

So now I will plan out the few odd activities and set a date for them.

I have to say also that I'm all about maximizing events. I figure if I can go the same place and earn more than 1 try it with my daughter then that's great. And a better use of our limited time at this point. There are other occassions when I want to really really focus in on something special for us and that's good to. I am also trying to focus our "small group" on council's own try its rather then the book. While I'm my daughter's troop leader and its easy for me to plan different try its for the girls so there is a variety I dont' want to make it harder for other leaders or on the girls. Afterall how "boring" would it be to earn the same try it on a field trip with our group and also in a meeting. Of course it depends on the try it and again the activites wouldn't necessarily be the same but still... that's like doing 8 things then for each try it and they are kinda little work that hard for those little things. My theory is expose them to TONS of stuff at this stage of life.