Final Grandma Camp Adventure!!

When the TMBC came to Princeton for our Featherweight Friday...OF COURSE, Lilly stopped by to sing a Hamilton song for her honorary Grandmothers.

So I decided this was the PERFECT moment to tell Lilly and Warren about their surprise.  Hummm maybe it could be a library scavenger hunt?

Wednesday (tomorrow) My cousin Jackie is joining me for the last Grandma Camp Adventure.  We're taking the kids on Amtrak into Chicago for a day trip. We'll get on a real Amtrak train in Princeton, Illinois at 8:30 AM -- and arrive in Chicago by 10:30. We'll eat lunch at the Beef and Brandy restaurant -- then walk across the street to see the Private Bank Theater...

We'll take the 5:30 train home...

It's basically a summer trial run for our January 3 HAMILTON adventure.

I had a gift for each child to depict THEIR part of the adventure.

For Lilly, an Alexander Hamilton bookend...and for Warren, of course -- A TRAIN BANK!!

I hid both things somewhere in the library -- and then gave Lilly this clue:

When the rag tag Army in need of a shower defeated the global Super Power --they emerged from the quagmire -- carrying what?

Of course, Lilly yelled, "Betsy Ross's FLAG..!!"

So I told them that's what they were looking for...and Lilly had to let Warren go first...

He found the first flag...wrapped around his new train bank...

But Lilly's was not so easy...

She looked in ever stack...

Finally, she saw the flag, which was all rolled up -- sitting on top of her new Alexander Hamilton bust...

SHE WAS SO DELIGHTED...

This is the only picture I got of the two kids, with their gifts...ugh...

I explained exactly what the trip would be. A trial run for our actual JANUARY HAMILTON EVENT..

Hey -- this whole idea of giving a Christmas Present in June -- so she has something to look forward to -- has been AWESOME!

Lilly and her four Grandma's will go to Chicago in JANUARY. We are all excited!!

In the meantime -- there's one final Grandma Camp Adventure!!