Field trip

Yesterday, I accompanied some Girl Scouts on a field trip. I go on trips with Girl Scouts all the time, but this one was different, because there were 16 girls, and Madison was one of the youngest, instead of the oldest, and, we met 14 of the other girls for the very first time.
I was happy that my daughter made friends quickly, and was well behaved. Because she is an only child, I never know if she is weird or not, because I have nothing to compare her to. I was relieved to see that most of the girls on the trip were goofy, too.
We saw manufactured homes being manufactured, and we got to tour finished homes. More than one girl declared the model home to be the nicest house she had ever seen.
We toured a hydroelectric dam. The girls were most impressed with the fish in the holding tank at the top of the fish ladder. They were really big. We drove to another dam and walked on top of it. That's where the above photo was taken. A couple years ago, Madison sat for days while her portrait was painted. The artist explained to her that it's better if a subject of a portrait isn't looking directly at the artist. Ever since then, it's nearly impossible to get her to look at the camera lens. She just gets this faraway look in her eye...
We also visited the recycling center. It's a lot like the dump, only not quite as smelly, and under cover.