Medieval Times

 Saturday was Scout Day at Medieval Times. When our girls found out about it, they couldn't wait to go!

 

 

Our menu. We had to eat every sans utensils.

Most of the girls had never been to Medieval Times before. Each group gets assigned a color which coordinates with one of the knights. Our knight was the Black & White one.

The lighting wasn't very good for pictures! Here's our row.

View from the other direction.

You can see the Black & White Knight in front of our section.

Some beautiful horses.

 

 The knights all lined up for competition.

The king and his daughter, the princess.

The girls had a blast! 

Here's a picture of our girls with the Black & White Knight.

What fun memories!

New Coffee Machine

For a few months now, I had been considering purchasing a coffee maker. Our last one bit the dust about 9 months ago. Chris didn't want to get a new one, so he was using one of these for his daily coffee:

I contemplated the Keurig and other pod systems out there, but when it came down to it, I preferred my coffee with the steamed milk, etc. I was guilty of going to Starbucks a couple of times a week for lattes. We used to have an espresso maker, but it was too complicated for the likes of me. I even purchased the latte packets at the store where all you had to do was add hot water. Yuck!!! I really didn't think there was anything out there for me.

Well...on a recent trip to Target, I came across a Mister Coffee Latte Maker on clearance.  Chris was with me at the time and he seemed skeptical. But he got on his phone and found the item on Amazon and read the reviews. The reviews were pretty favorable. Plus, the price on Amazon was $20 more.

I still had a $50 Target gift card left over from Christmas, so I decided to go ahead & purchase the $49.99 Mr. Coffee latte maker.

I bought some coffee syrups (both regular and sugar free) and started playing around with different flavors, etc. It came with a recipe book which I used as a guideline. I use a little less syrup than the recipes suggested because I thought that was just too sweet. I LOVE the foamy milk! And I love the color of the latte!

The machine is pretty easy to use, definitely easier than the old espresso machine. You can't put the pieces in the dishwasher because of the heating elements.

I have not been to Starbucks in over a week now!

Anne Frank Exhibit

We were looking for something *free* to do recently. We recalled seeing signs for the Anne Frank Exhibit while having lunch with Chris in Sandy Springs. Admission was free, so we decided to check it out.

The Anne Frank Exhibit is in a strip mall in Sandy Springs. It's not very big, but they've done a great job with the space they have.

We started our tour by watching a 28 minute video titled "The Short Life of Anne Frank". The movie was really good. It showed lots of live footage from World War II and the holocaust. It even had the only known footage of Anne Frank. The movie was informative and quite interesting.

After the video, we toured the exhibit. It is primarily an exhibit of photographs.

Hannah enjoyed looking at this model of the annex where Anne & her family hid.

This was an accurate mock up of Anne's room.

Here's a close up of what her desk looked like with a copy of the famous diary with the plaid cover.

At the end of the exhibit, there were these rolled up pieces of paper stuck in a wood board. The sign said that there were phrases and sentences from Anne's diary on each one and for you to take one as a reminder of your visit.

Here's what Hannah's paper said.

There was a donation box near the entrance. If you gave a $10 donation, you were given a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Now Hannah has her own copy.

We spent about an hour at the exhibit and that included the 28 minute video. The exhibit led to some good conversations during lunch afterwards.

Girl Scout Field Trip

Our Girl Scout troop recently had a double field trip in downtown Atlanta. We started at the CNN Center for a tour of CNN. The girls have been working on the Media Journey so we thought a trip to the CNN Studios would follow along with that.

One thing that I found interesting from our tour, was that the CNN building used to house an indoor amusement park called The World of Sid & Marty Kroft! Unfortunately the park closed after only 6 months. I would LOVE to see pics of this place!! I've searched online but haven't found much so far.

Here's a picture of the girls outside of CNN.

Another one of the girls inside with a rainbow unicorn creature that I am unfamiliar with.

I didn't take many pictures on our tour. We were restricted in many areas and when we could take pictures, we couldn't use our flash. (It took me a while to figure out how to turn the flash off on my camera! Oops!)

Here's a picture of Hannah with a cardboard Wolf Blitzer. The look on her face says it all. "Who IS this guy????". I assured her that her father would know who he was.

We at lunch at the CNN food course. Well, actually, we bought lunch at the CNN food course, but we were in a hurry to get to our next destination, so we ate in the cars.

Our next stop was Georgia Tech. We signed up for a Girl Scout only Scratch Animation workshop. The girls really had fun learning how to use Scratch.

What a fun day! The girls are excited to try more Scratch animating at home. I can't wait to see what they come up with!