One of the major activities in the Princess Group is to earn beads. Each girl gets a necklace with a bead just for joining. There are nine starter beads in total. These beads are what allow the girls to move forward to Hey-lush-ka, a leadership position in the tribe. There are three Hey-lush-ka advanced beads to be earned before becoming a hey-lush-ka.
This weekend we gathered as a group to achieve our singing bead. To earn this bead, both the father and daughter must learn and sing back the song for the tribe chief.
The songs were “America” and “Friends Forever,” which is sung to the tune of Clementine and is about dads and daughters spending time together.
In addition to “testing” for the bead, we cooked out breakfast on the grills, just like we do at the campouts. The girls played yard games and after everyone was fed and had earned their beads we all went over to the nearby park and played Capture the Flag.
The girls pulled out to a fast lead, but the dads were just getting warmed up. We ended up at 3 to 2 in the girls favor but they insisted that we do one more.
At the end of the day it was 3 to 3, with the girls insisting the dad’s cheated. I don’t think hiding the flag better than they did is cheating, do you?