A Weekend on the Eastern Shore

Had a fantastic, busy weekend!
Left Friday pretty much straight away from camp to head down to Bethany Beach to celebrate Allison’s birthday. She had been down with Dani all week and Laura and Tonie had gone down Thursday. Went out to dinner then just hung out til we crashed – I was tired from a long, hot week of camp.

Pheww - Friday was a hot one.
This picture was taken during our afternoon activity in the SHADE!

I was the first to wake up Saturday so I went outside to read my bible, which I am trying to do just about every morning these days in effort to read the whole thing in a year. I figure this is a good year to do it with being at camp now and having time during the internship away from the distraction of abundant technology eg. high speed internet. During school, I would check my email in the morning but here I don’t bother to turn the comp on until the afternoon or evening so instead I read while I eat breakfast.

I started with Philippians, one of my favorite books, and read through the letters of Paul up to Hebrews. Then of course I had to go back to Romans and was about to start 2 Corinthians when one of our BLASTS –Bible Learning and Scripture Teaching, which we do with our groups Tues – Thurs, was about Ester; so of course I had to read that book. I kind of enjoyed the break from the letters of Paul so began Nehemiah – weird book – no wonder you don’t hear many references from it – so far it is all about building a wall. Hummm so I suppose I should really go back and finish Paul’s letters before doing too much in the Old Testament. Oh well, good thing I’m marking what I have read as I go along!

WOW - Anyway . . . (that was tangent number one of this attempt at a brief account of my weekend – ha). I also got a few thank you notes done in the morning before the others woke up and we went to a local bakery for breakfast. Laura and Tonie left before lunch but Dani and I hung around. We walked into Bethany, had lunch at five guys (dani had never eaten there before) then walked down the beach on the way back. The water was pretty rough and pretty cold so I was less tempted than usual to charge into the surf!

Left Allison’s around 4:30 and followed her part of the way up Maryland’s Eastern Shore before breaking off to take the familiar route up to C-town. Laura and Ash are working there for crew camp and although Laura went w/ Tonie back to Annapolis she let me use her key to stay at WAC for the night. Felt some what natural or maybe just familiar, to be back at WAC but then I kept reminding myself that it is over and I’m not going back in the fall. I ended up sleeping in Rowena’s old second semester room in the I-House.

Went to mass with Marian on Sunday. I looked at the times at the Presbyterian church, b/c that is one of the few churches in Chestertown I have yet to attend, but then talked to Marian and decided just to go with her. Going to mass is always an experience! I’m somewhat used to it now, having gone with Marian a few times over the years. However, I still manage to have trouble stopping during the Lord’s prayer even though I know it is coming and Marian is giving me a reminder poke!

We met Lyndsey, who Marian is living with while in Chestertown, for breakfast at Ellen’s. She brought the butts (or heels) of bread to take down to the dock to feed the ducks. I LOVE the water! It is so my dream one day to live on the water. Just so happy and peaceful and fun all at the same time.

My attempt at taking a picture of our feet!

Back up to WAC to help Laura and Ash get ready for their campers; they will be staying in Reid this week.

Left Chestertown around 1:40 to head up to Galena for an afternoon of knee boarding, skiing, and tubing at the Leonard’s. I finally got up on a slalom ski!!! I was up about 20 seconds but it counts!! At lake Norman I had a lot of success getting up off the back of a jet ski on two skis then dropping one and doing cuts in and out of the wake. But I was never able to get up. This time I got up but then didn’t balance my weight / get my ski pointed right. I’ll get it all together eventually!

Actually taken last summer but you get the idea.

So had a really nice time at the Leonards! I had house sat for them earlier this summer but hadn’t actually seen them in a while, well, since graduation I guess. So had fun playing with Amy; hunting for rocks and swimming in the pool. Gosh, I am such a kid at heart!

Had a delicious dinner outside by the pool as the sun set over the river – man, nice life!!
Headed back to camp around 8:20 but didn’t get back til about 9:30. I’ve found that trip really depends on traffic and how slow the person in front of you is going. It can take as little as 40 min or up to an hour.

Did laundry and showered before heading to bed around 12:30. Then up this morning at 7:30 to kick off another wonderful week of camp. Have I mentioned how much I love my job??? I get paid (not a lot mind you) to have fun pretty much! It is so rewarding and wonderful to spend a summer with a group of great kids and fellow counselors :) I’m working with Aaron this week, a counselor from Australia, and we have a small group of 8 6-8 year old boys – should be fun!