Day Cinco minus tres

Hey Everyone!

This is Elizabeth and Maggie coming to you live, while we're typing...but not as you're reading. This morning started with another serene morning prayer on the shore of the bay. We didn't have breakfast duty, so we had a little wee bit of free time before breakfast. That was nice because we knew that there was PLENTY of work ahead. Our group proved to be hungry beasts by eating eighteen boxes of cereal. We have a picture posted below of the leftover cardboard recycling. For today's work the whole group got to work together. It was great to be working in a large group with friends. We all worked at Camp Coast Care (CCC) and started by taking everything (and we mean EVERYTHING) out of the kitchen. Then we had to disassemble around 60+ bunk beds. We were moving at a fast speed until we were disassembling a bed that REFUSED to disassemble! Alex yanked and pulled, and couldn't pull apart the top and bottom bunks. I (Maggie) had to step in with my amazing bunk breaking down skillz (WD40) and corroded the bed apart. Needless to say, Alex had a much easier time after that. We followed the vans that were loaded with kitchen supplies to the new CCC location and then proceeded to unload the vans that we had loaded 15 minutes previous. We had an efficient assembly line of St. Luker's and another church to bring kitchen items into the new sites kitchen. When we drove back to CCC we had done such a marvelous job of clearing out the warehouse that Mr. Mark (the guy who tells what to do,/ runs CCC) had run out of jobs for us to do. We waited around for and hour and played games, but he never showed up. When we went back to camp we proceeded to do various odd jobs such as weed-whacking, glove matching,box painting, food organizing, and worst of all, cleaning the refrigerator bottom which was covered in gook. Of course, this is the job we had, and to say the least, it was NASTY! What seemed to be remnants of old ice cream, spinach, and mysterious green powder, had congealed at the bottom of a refrigerator that had been turned off for weeks. With the help of a bottle of FANTASTIK, two paper towel rolls, and a mudding knife, we were successful in scraping the majority of the gunk out. Due to trauma, we have erased most of this story from our minds. After cleaning, we had the usual shower/beach time. We have a different chore everyday at Mission on the Bay, and today's (6/16) chore was getting and serving dinner. Dinner is a surprise everyday because they make it at CCC and we have to go get it then serve it to roughly 70 people. Just to let you in on a secret, don't mess with the food servers or we will mess with your food. We served BBQ chicken, veggie chicken nuggets, corn on the cob, rice with carrots, peach cobbler, and apple cobbler. If you can imagine how many dishes that took, that's how many we washed. If you can't imagine it...it was A LOT. This evening's compline was led by Jan, who told a touching story about a turtle, and where we find GOD. After we read prayers and gave stories about where GOD touches us personally, we sang numerous songs. We (Elizabeth and Maggie) then had to leave to get the blog finished, which you see had not been finished until today. When we went back outside a beautiful chorus of alleluias drifted through the camp. Yes, it was our group. (We have some amazing musicians). Well, that about wraps it up...or at least all we can remember. You will have quite a story to read this evening. We look forward to talking, or blogging, with you soon. We miss you all...WE HAVE ONLY SEVEN MINUTES TILL DINNER SO WE GOTTA GO, BYE!!

~Maggie (the fox) and Elizabeth (the deer)