Cluster Day

The Sunday before Billeting we invited the cluster to our house for a hike (or rather a walk on a well established trail, hikes need land excursion forms), and a fire down on the beach. The Deer Lake group arrived on time, as expected, and although we expected the Corner Brook group to be late, we didn't expect them to be an hour late. It cut into our hike time a bit, but we still made it farther then we had on our previous trip to the Gravel's hiking spot, due to the fast pace lead by me, Tamara, Devon and Phillipe.

It turned out to be a perfect day for our outing, and I miraculously managed not to get burned (I think I'm finally getting this sunscreen thing).

At the end of our hike we returned the house where the groups prepared their own meals. My group had a delicious vegetarian chili prepared by...me of course, and a raspberry jam bar dessert, that I believe a lot of the other groups got into as well.

After dinner we went out to the beach to have a fire....and were hit by a huge Tsunami...jk...

anyway, we had a fire, cooked smores, some people had romantic walks on the beach, and the evening was cut short by Deer Lake having a nearly 2 hour drive back. Corner Brook left shortly after, and the day ended.

Photo: Our cluster on the boat that is at the begining of the Gravel's trail. Can you pick out me?

Surf and Turf

Last night we went to a Surf and Turf at the Lion's Club (for FREE!!). We had lobster and steak, both of which were delicious, and something we'd never be able to afford on our grocery budget. I planned on getting 2 steak instead of a steak and a lobster, since although I don't mind lobster, I definitely don't love it, but after eating 1 steak and helping Melissa out with her lobster, not to mention the seemingly never ending supply of lobster legs that a man at our table kept giving me (everyone was giving him their bodies cause he likes it and most people don't, and he kept giving me the legs off them), I was too full to try for my 2nd steak, although I did help Melissa with hers when she gave it a shot (she wasn't able to finish).

After they gave out awards to Lions members for the past year, and swore in (or whatever you want to call it) the new officers for next year. Then we got to do the dishes, which wasn't too bad except as usual there were not enough dish towels to properly dry all the dishes, which really frustrates me. Why...if you have so many dishes, do you only have like 6 dish towels? The one I was using was damp when I started, and I was still using it at the end (I used 2 others in the middle, but both go dirty drying pots and kettles with dirty bottoms). I swear when I have my own place, I'm going to go out and buy a TON of dish towels, I hate running out.