I just returned from a trek to Penn State DuBois (yeah, that's about a two-hour drive) with my Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts for the Council's Media Madness program. My Cadettes created digital videos about Girl Scouts and earned their Digital Movie Making badge, and my Senior created a blog/website and earned her Website Designer badge. What an AWESOME program!!!
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| Traditional photo with the PSU Nittany Lion! My Pop Pop would be proud. |
Yet sometimes, the best field trips are those that are partially unplanned...
On our way to DuBois this morning we drove through Punxsutawney, which of course started conversations about Pennsylvania's famous ground hog. I promised the girls that on the way home we would stop for dinner, so they Googled restaurants in Punxsutawney and selected Punxy Phil's Family Restaurant. (By the way...great food.)
It gets better...
We finished dinner early and had some time to kill before we needed to head back to Greensburg, so we took off in search of Phil.
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| Sorry it's a bit blurry. I had to take the photo through a window. |
We found the famous rodent at the Punxsutawney Library (thanks to cashier at the restaurant). To be honest, we think it was Phil (but it might have been Mrs. Phil or Gus) because there were two ground hogs in the habitat and the one dove for cover when we arrived.
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| Obviously not the REAL Phil. |
So what's the moral of the story? It's okay not to plan every minute of every field trip, program, activity, or meeting. Sometimes, the best times are had simply by searching for Pennsylvania's Most Famous Groundhog!!!
PS - My girls have decided that we will be returning to our new friend's home town on February 2nd. Watch out Punxy....Troop 27038 will be back!!!!!
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