Actual first Brownie Promise
"Bridging Up" to Brownies Ceremony at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens
Our much anticipated "Bridging Up" to Brownies Ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, September 22 at 9:30 am at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens. Those planning on participating in the ceremony will need to arrive at the Cheekwood front office at 9:30 am, when they open. I know the time is very early, but Cheekwood has a new Fall Scarecrow exhibit opening that day, and anticipate larger than normal crowds. Our event organizer feels if we are the first to arrive, we will most likely have the garden to ourselves. Our ceremony will take place at the Howe Garden area of Cheekwood, which is a very short walk from the front office. Here is a link to Cheekwood's Howe garden:
Howe Garden is a place with a unique history, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was renovated only a few months ago. It is truly gorgeous.
Click on the link below the picture of the garden to learn more:
Please invite any family or friends that would like to see our ceremony take place, and your little Daisy become a Brownie. I have arranged for a special Girl Scout Troop discount of $3 per girl and $10 per adult for entry into Cheekwood. For those of you who purchased a City Saver Coupon Book this year, there is a Buy One admission, get the second for free inside-if you intend on using that, I would ask for the Girl Scout discount for your daughter, but pay regular price for yourself, so that you may use the coupon.
Our ceremony should take no longer that 20 minutes. We will keep the ceremony shorter than usual, so that people within the garden may not be hindered to enjoy their day too much. I believe, even though there is a chance for interference from others in the garden, the trade off of having our event in such a place of beauty, will be worth it.
As usual, we will have our flag ceremony, and some of the girls will be walking with the flag, and as flag bearer and color guard. You will all most likely recall this from our Investiture Ceremony last August.
We introduced our troop banner last time, and now that we are becoming Brownies, we will be retiring this one, and introducing our new Troop Banner. We will be making our new troop banner at this coming weeks meeting.
Of course, I will still be needing Parents to help out, as you all did before. We had such great success before, I can only hope things can go half as smoothly.
I am asking everyone, as they did before, to wear the khaki and white. Brownies, as well as parents, and anyone you invite as well. Just so that when we take a group photo, and conduct the ceremony-we look very uniform and pulled together. The girls do not need their entire new Brownie uniform for the ceremony. They will only need their Brownie vest. If you would like to attach the insignia, you may do that, and it would look very nice. However, I understand the time constraints, and if you cannot get your vest, let me know. I will make arrangements to get it for you. Please remember that on Thursday evenings, the Girl Scout Shop, locally here in Nashville, is open until 6 pm.
One important fact to keep in mind-this will be our Daisy Scouts very last time to officially wear their Blue Daisy Vests. We have worked so hard to earn so many awesome patches-so please make sure you have their vests looking really sharp. We want them to wear them with pride, and be able to show all that we achieved as a troop as Daisy Scouts!
So, in closing, here are the facts are about our Brownie "Bridging Up":
Date: Saturday, September 22
Place: Howe Gardens, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens
Time: 9:30 am
Cost: $3 per scout, $10 per adult (don't forget your City Saver Book)
Attire: White & Khaki, don't forget both your Daisy and new Brownie vests
I have made a tentative reservation for our group to have lunch at "The Pineapple Room" at Cheekwood at 11 am. More details on that to follow. Please don't hesitate if you have questions about our ceremony. I hope this will work out for you all to be able to attend/help out!
On the left of this picture, is the bridge where our bridging ceremony will take place.
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