After getting up and ready for the day, I baked some soda bread in a silent tribute to St. Patrick's Day. Most years, I'm with my pipe band for a 12+ hour bar-hop. We play all day, celebrate, and enjoy relaxing and performing together. It's a blast.
Headed over to Ryan's house mid morning for brunch - Katie offered to cook for everyone. We enjoyed a scrumptious meal, and then watched most of Open Range together. I had to come back to get the chili over to the visitor's center to reheat before the group dinner. Hung around the v/c for a bit after that, getting things ready for the evening. Also the videographer, Dudley, who is here recording the events of the week pulled a few of us aside for an interview and head shot for his film.
Once the group from Calhoun arrived we did a couple of ice breaker activities which were a lot of fun. The second one was called the human knot. You start in a group of six people, stand in a circle, reach your arms across the circle, and grab the arm of two different people. Then you have to untangle yourselves back into a circle by twisting, climbing over each other, whatever it takes. We had three groups of six, and all managed to get untangled. Next a few people asked about doing this with the entire group of eighteen. So...yeah, we did that. It took significantly longer to get out of, and there was one point where two people had to break hands for a brief adjustment. Remarkably, we did manage to untangle. During this, the winds started to pick up, as forecast. By the end, everyone was ready to go back inside and eat chili and chat. Yes, we did this outside where random people could drive by and stare, perplexed.
Back at the quad after dinner and discussions, the Calhoun group invited Ed, Ranger Cathy, and me over to join them in a game of charades. It was a great end to the day.
Headed over to Ryan's house mid morning for brunch - Katie offered to cook for everyone. We enjoyed a scrumptious meal, and then watched most of Open Range together. I had to come back to get the chili over to the visitor's center to reheat before the group dinner. Hung around the v/c for a bit after that, getting things ready for the evening. Also the videographer, Dudley, who is here recording the events of the week pulled a few of us aside for an interview and head shot for his film.
Once the group from Calhoun arrived we did a couple of ice breaker activities which were a lot of fun. The second one was called the human knot. You start in a group of six people, stand in a circle, reach your arms across the circle, and grab the arm of two different people. Then you have to untangle yourselves back into a circle by twisting, climbing over each other, whatever it takes. We had three groups of six, and all managed to get untangled. Next a few people asked about doing this with the entire group of eighteen. So...yeah, we did that. It took significantly longer to get out of, and there was one point where two people had to break hands for a brief adjustment. Remarkably, we did manage to untangle. During this, the winds started to pick up, as forecast. By the end, everyone was ready to go back inside and eat chili and chat. Yes, we did this outside where random people could drive by and stare, perplexed.
Back at the quad after dinner and discussions, the Calhoun group invited Ed, Ranger Cathy, and me over to join them in a game of charades. It was a great end to the day.
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| This morning, out my back door. |
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| This morning, out my back door. |
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| After the rain, outside my back door. Took this with my phone. |
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| Just after the last photo, grabbed camera and ran out to catch the light, but it had already changed. |
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| Behind the quad. |
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| After the winds really started up. Fuzzy because it is impossible to hold camera still in 50-60mph gusts. |