We had a lovely outing planned for Annabelle’s girl scout troop. They were to earn their Technology badge (or something along those lines) with a class at the Apple Store. 

After several phone and email confirmations — let me tell ya, I’m an organized and thorough gal — we showed up to find there would be no class. 

The manager found our reservation and my emails and said yes, indeed she saw the reservation on the calendar, but I had to understand they were not prepared to do the class. Um, what? But isn’t that what the reservation is for? To reserve the time and date? (I’ve seen this episode of Seinfeld. I know how this works). And the follow up confirmation emails (one less than 24 hours prior to the meeting) those are just to confirm we are still on, right? 

Wrong. I was told again and again as the girls ran around the mall that although they had the reservation they couldn’t keep the reservation. (I know I’ve seen that Seinfeld episode and it’s a good one!). 

My co-leader is far better than me, because I was ready to hit the wine bar and call the night a loss. She decided since we were all there that we should organize a scavenger hunt for them. We came up with several things for them to find in the mall (a soccer ball, pink tennis shoes, a candle, a diamond ring, etc etc). We split up in to two teams and off we went. The girls loved it and then they all had an ice cream cone afterwards. I think my co-leader should earn a badge for creativity and caring and I’m pretty sure I earned that glass of wine afterwards.