dr, the first thing I do with my gals every year (we are o'seas so guiding sections are different - my unit starts at 12) is discuss budgeting. Our finances run in a different way to GGUK (we have to sell girl guide cookies to finance activities) so the first thing we do is our wish list of activities for the year, and then break a few of them down for costs and work out how many cases of cookies we need to sell to do them. (Or how much we need to charge parents etc). We have learned the hard way that parents moan if they are asked to sell too many cookies, but equally moan if we raise costs for camp etc. Can't have it both ways!
Rue I am lol at your steps count. I did the same thing at camp last weekend and ended up with over 52k for the weekend. I was in bed at 8.30 
. We didn't even hike. That was literally just walking round the site. Fifty thousand times.
Ah, my years is so close to over. Unit meetings now finished, just our national jamboree in July to go (final parent meeting next week). The jamboree admin has been shocking, and they keep sending random unexpected requests that have to be completed and sent back immediately, usually requiring information from each parent. Two of my patrol live a 14 hour drive away and I have never met them (we are their host patrol) and even my own gals are impossible to get hold of now that we have had our final meeting. Sigh. Tonight I get to drive three hours to pick up our camp swag though .
dr - we had a brief period where the gals all left to join scouts (the scouts had a big trip they were planning). They all came back when we were running our own trip lol). Shallow, really. In all honesty I can't get too excited about it. We run our activities for the girls who are there - it's nice to have a full unit, but it can be easier to run quality activities with a slightly smaller group sometimes!!! And I know the girls who stay are there because they want to be. Our town has so many youTh activities we are a bit of an also-ran. I try not to take it personally!!