Emersyn joined girl scouts for the first time at Concordia. The Concordia Girl Scout program is very popular. Emmy enjoys the meetings that are held every other Wednesday from 3:20pm to 5:00pm at the school. The highlight of being a girl scout is the Daddy Daughter Dance. This year the theme was a 50’s dance.

Now, the fun begins with describing the poodle skirt to the Chinese tailors at the fabric market. The fabric market is where you get anything and everything made. You take in any picture or article of clothing to have it copied. The tailors take your measurements and make it to fit. The only problem is they measure exactly to your body with no wiggle room. Over time, I have learned to ask for bigger, “da”. I went with Kathleen, Mimi’s Mom, in search of the perfect fabric. Well, it is China, so we would look for the fabric that would be most similar with the right look – velour material was it. The real challenge of the skirt was the poodle patch. There was no time to get one from the States. However, Emmy and I were going to Hong Kong before the dance with hopes to find one there. And, I did. I found a pair of pants with the perfect poodle embroidered on the bottom of the leg. I purchased a pair of pants for us and one for Mimi. We cut the poodle off the leg. I had the pants hemmed into crop pants. I also had a skirt made for Elle. However, Elle’s was a butterfly 50’s skirt. Butterfly patches could be found to put on the dress.

Emmy enjoyed getting all dressed up for the dance.

Emmy was all dressed for a night out and Elle was all dressed to go to bed.

Jim also enjoyed the dance. He said the girls had fun running around, dancing and being silly. The dads enjoyed the beer that was served – (Something that never would happen in the USA)!