By Mia
Have you ever had a girl scout camping trip? One of my most unforgettable girl scout camping trips was with Brooklynn, Sophie and the rest of the troop. Brooklyn is in my class. She is funny and loves to joke around. Sophie is not in my class, but we are still close friends. All of us go to the same girl scout troop. This is the story of how the girl scout camping trip went.
One Monday evening after coming back from a girl scouts meeting, my mom said that me, Brooklyn and Sophie will go with the rest of the troop on a girl scout camping trip. I asked if Brooklynn and Sophie could ride in the same car to the girl scout camping trip. She said yes. My mom texted Brooklynn and Sophie’s moms and after a few minutes they texted back! They said that Brooklynn and Spohie would love to come and they would come at 10am the next day. I was so excited!
The next day at 9:30 a.m. , I ate my breakfast as fast as I could and finished at 9:40. I started packing my stuff at 9:45 and finished at 9:50.
“Ten more minutes!” I thought as I pressed my face on the window hoping for them to arrive early. 9:52, eight more minutes. 9:55, we still have time. 9:57, why don’t they arrive? 9:59, are they even coming? Finally it was 10 am, but Brooklynn and Spohie were still nowhere to be seen. By 10:05, I had lost hope, they weren’t coming. Suddenly I heard something that made my heart leap. “Ding – Dong”, the doorbell rang! I ran to the door and there was Brooklynn and Sophie at the front step with their sleeping bags and two gigantic bags so full that I thought they were going to explode. I opened the door and said
“Hello, how do you carry such large bags?” they just shrugged. “Come on in!” I said and helped them carry one by one the gigantic bags into the living room where my mom and their moms were talking.
“Where is your cat?” Sophie asked as she darted around the house looking up and down.
“I don’t know.” I said shrugging.
Suddenly, there was a scream,
“I’m dying! I’m dying!” it was Brooklynn.
Me and Sophie ran to the kitchen where Brooklynn froze as my cat purred and rubbed her head on Brooklynn’s ankle.
“Help me!” she whispered as my cat tried and failed to jump on her lap because she was swinging her arms around everywhere.
I grabbed my cat’s left foot and tugged her away from the gasping and panting Brooklynn.
“What’s wrong?” I asked her after safely locking my cat in the basement.
“I am afraid of pets.” Brooklyn said, “It all started after watching my old hamster bite my brother’s finger!”
I fought the thought about laughing and said “Err…, OKay”
I took Brooklynn back to the living room where my mom was about to send the other moms away.
“Good bye!” we all said.
After that, I led them to the car, where we started to put our stuff in the trunk. During that time, my mom said that she let my cat out again and we had to complete stuffing the bags in the trunk with brooklynn climbing the nearest tree with my cat underneath her meowing. After we finally convinced her to come out by throwing my cat inside, we asked her if she wanted to help us.
“Sure!” she said.
So we started to push and push, but unfortunately after many tries one toothbrush remained outside. Once we figured out that we didn’t need the toothbrush I put it back upstairs. Soon we had finished all the hard work, and it was time to hit the road. We went into the car and off we went. That’s when we realized that it was boring and we only brought two games.
“Umm, can we play uno?” Sophie asked.
“Why?” I said.
“Well I am very bored.” she said.
The problem was that we only had a half of the deck and the game only lasted 5 minutes.
“Please.” said Brooklynn, “can we play the other game?”
Sophie replied, “then could we play uno afterwards?”
“Nope.” Brooklynn said, “It is boring.”
“Then I will not play the other game!” Said Sophie.
“Come on! We need 3 people to play it” Brooklyn was almost yelling now
“ nope”
they argued back and forth until 12am. I couldn’t stand it any more. So I started to give myself some of the uno cards and placed down the starting card, brooklynn and sophie stopped arguing at once.
“See,” I said, “I found some more cards.”
“Fine.” she groaned.
Finally we were at the campsite, and we at least played the UNO game for like 50 times and we were getting bored again.
“Look,” I said, “ were here!”
“ finally!!!!!” brooklynn said as she stretched her legs and hoped out of the car. Me and Sophie followed her
“come on!” I said as I tugged at the bags.
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10 minutes later me, Sophie, and Brooklynn had tugged all of our bags out.
“Wow” I said “ I never thought it would be that hard!”
“Yep” said Sophie
We all walked to the big place where you sleep.
“ I call the top bunk!” I said
“ no” Sophie said, “ I do!”
We did a game of rock paper scissors, and I won!
“ I get the top bunk!” I said
We made our beds and went back outside and saw my mom leave.
“ goodbye!” we said as we waved goodbye to her.
“ let’s go meet the other people at the fire pit!” I said
“Sure!”
So we had a race to see who could get to the fire pit first. Brooklynn won!
“Hello!” I said as we approached them.
“ hi!” they all said back
By now it was dinner time and I was very hungry because we skipped lunch.
“ I’m hungry!” I groaned
“Dinners at 6:00pm” said Brooklyn as she looked at her piece of paper
she just received. “Right now we do crafts”
“ what type?” I asked her. Looking at my piece of paper, on top it said “ flower bookmarks: 5:00 – 5: 50 pm
Dinner : 6: 00. ”
“Cool,” I said looking at all of the flowers.
“ We push the cardboard on the flowers to make it flat” said one of the girl scout leaders “ Then we wrap it in tape” I tried that but then I realized that it is vary hard to flatten it and I had to sit on it for like 20 minutes, so by 5:50 I only made about two of them.
Suddenly I heard:
“ DING DING DING” the dinner bell! Me, Brooklynn, and Sophie were very happy, but that didn’t last long because we were trampled by a horde of kids rushing towards the restroom to wash their hands.
“ cough cough, I guess we should do so too.” I said.
“ right,” brooklynn said.
After we washed our hands we went to the fire pit and roasted a few hot dogs for dinner.
“Maw, I am stuffed” I said
“ me to” said Sophie “ I think we ate to much”
Suddenly we heard a voice:
“ I hope you have space for s’mores!”
I immediately jumped up “ yes I do!”
“ come on, can we only eat the marshmallows and chocolate?” someone said “ I don’t like the crackers”
“Nope” said one of the girl scout leaders.
“Man” said the person.
After many tries and fails to get at least one marshmallow golden I gave up and just ate a black one.
We went to the bathroom to brush our teeth and headed back to our bunk bed
“Good night” I said, only snoring answered me.
About at 12:00 I was woken up by a THUMP, THUMP,THUMP. I saw Sophie slide out of bed and tried to ask her what happened, but then I noticed that she was asleep. The sound was Sophie! I freaked out. I woke brooklynn and we started to follow her. She went into the kition and got some cereal and milk.
“ Wow, she must be having a good dream.” I whispered to brooklynn. She nodded, and looked back at Sophie who was now pouring milk into a bowl. She took a spoon and scooped a bunch of cereal into the milk, then ate it. After the bowl was cleen she put it in the dishwasher and started to munch on chips. It was 5:00 now and Me and Brooklynn were very tired.
“Gosh, how much can she eat?” yawned brooklynn,
“I don’t know,” I shrugged.
Suddenly Sophie walked out the door and went back to bed. We hurried after her as quietly as we could but that was impossible because Sophie was walking really loudly, THUMP THUMP THUMP . Now it was 7:00 and people started to wake up. None of us had slept one bit( except Sophie and the other people).
“Wow,” said Sophie “ I am so full.”
Me and brooklynn just yawned. That was one of my most unforgettable girl scout camping trips. I hope it never happens again.
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