This is our group---recognize the shirts?We had 13 Brownies and 4 Juniors---everyone in the troop got to go! We had 8 adults with us, too, which was wonderful.
One of the highlights for us was B getting to feed the giraffe. The Mom of one of our Brownies had a personal connection to someone who worked for the zoo. They were college roommates. Anyway, she took us behind the Africa exhibit and saw a few of the animals close up we fed this giraffe some carrots. An extra priveledge! Isn't that a long tongue?
I had to post three pictures today to kind of show the process for what we were doing. J took this picture of me and B in the kitchen. After the shirts sat for 24 hours (about), we rinsed them and rinsed them in the sink.
Then we untied them and rinsed them some more in the sink, until they were running almost clear water. Some ran clear-er than others----remember these were 7, 8, and 9 year old girls adding dye, so some were carried away with their dye! This shirt happens to be B's own shirt she did, inside out.
And the last steps happened in the washer. I washed two loads of shirts (about 25 total). I washed them with some Dawn diswashing liquid all the way through a cycle. I then ran it back and did the rinse cycle 3 times for each load. See how blue the water still is? I think this is in the final rinse cycle.
