Black lung, Fail Tuesday and Charlie...

• We have been cleaning and having classes like usual. The cleaning was expanded to Fort Roller. We have been "deep cleaning" the cabins up there for the open house that we will be having there at the end of the month. The dust is unreal. We make it fun and laugh about the amount of dust that we are bathing in and breathing in. It is dirty work! Hopefully the "black lung" that we all joke about getting doesn't actually happen!
• On Tuesday Matt and Michelle took us to the inner harbor for the day! It was a beautiful day and we were all very excited to get away from the ranch and spend some time together! The first place Matt took us to was the Washington Memorial. We were going to climb up in it but it was closed on Tuesdays. So we just looked at it and then went to the next place, an Art Museum. It was grand looking from the outside and Matt's excitement for showing it to us was getting us all interested. When we found the door locked we read the sign that said it was closed Tuesdays as well. So we went to the third place Matt wanted to show us! A basilica! We wandered around in it for a few minutes before our tour started! It was very interesting, and beautiful! We were all teasing Matt about it actually being open! Because the other activities were closed we wandered around the harbor for a while. We got some bubble tea and then we headed back towards the ranch so we could stop at REI! I love that store! I can't afford anything in it....but it is fun to look and dream! A stop at Chick-fil-a and our day was complete! Not really a fail at all! But we all teased Matt about it being lame anyway! haha
• We had a great week of normal work! Detailing, programing, classes.... The weather has been glorious all week!
  
• We had our last Winter Meltdown! (The one that was rescheduled due to the massive amounts of snow!) It went great! We also had an Outdoor Ed. group in for the day on Sat. so things were pretty busy! Everything ran smoothly and right on time! The two groups had great times at the activities and the staff loved being outside all day even if it was exhausting! On Saturday evening after the service a boy named Charlie was lurking around the back of the OTM, it looked like he was waiting to hand in the cards that the kids filled out as part of the service and so I asked him if he would like me to take it for him. That turned into a conversation about how confused he was. Long story short... Charlie decided to live for Christ! When the conversation ended I could tell that Charlie was still unsure about some things. With him now in the capable hands of his youth leader I trust that Charlie will figure things out and come to understand more fully about the decision he made. It just breaks my heart to see kids so lost.....
• On Sunday after all the Winter Meltdown had ended Taco and I went disc golfing and then headed to Brad's to watch the rest of the race. We couldn't find it, so was watched a movie then brad came home and flipped right to the race channel just in time for me to see the Jimmie Johnson had won the race!!!!!!!! Then we put a bunch of songs on my ipod! good day! Great weekend!