Recap of Day 2

Good afternoon everyone! This blog covers Sunday 22, 2008
Today the blog is written to you from Matthew Stark

We woke up this morning around 6:30 - 7:30. We had a wide variety for breakfast such as cereal, pop-tarts, oatmeal, and hard-boiled eggs. After breakfast, we had a pleasant and enriching prayer service lead by Mr. Stark with a reading from Mt 19:13-15. At 9:00, we headed over to the rangers’ station to receive directions on what to do for our service project.
When we got there, the park ranger, Veronica, told us that they would like us to collect all the garbage in an area of woods. The area that we covered was about 100yds X 880yds, and we averaged at least two and half bags per person. The amount came out to be around 33 bags of garbage, which was about 115lbs. When we were finished, we then collected some fire wood so that we could have a campfire during and after dinner. After that, we headed back towards our campsite, but stopped back at the rangers’ station first for a quick photo opp.



Arriving back at the campsite, we prepared our lunch, which consisted of lunchmeat and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The accompaniments to this meal were chips, cheese sticks, carrots, pickles, and Kool-aid. After we finished lunch, we had little time for recreation, so we spent time on the beach trying to skip rocks across the water. Around 1:30 in the afternoon, we headed out for a historical trip, and look around at the local ghost town.
Once we got there, we visited many stores that were very unique to this town. The stores and buildings were very old and rustic looking, and it appeared that we were walking through an old wild-west movie, or walking through a time warp.

Some of the stores there were an old ice-cream shop, a candy store that makes their own products by using the old-fashioned methods. There were many souvenir stores, and many museums that showed the local history of the town, which was very interesting



The ride home was very long, especially in the car that I was in. Everyone had gone to the bathroom before we left, but twenty minutes into the drive home Jake said he had to pee like a race horse, and kept reminding us every ten seconds. So, we told him not to think about the lake, babbling brooks, the ocean, water in a water bottle swishing back and forth, so that he would. When we finally got to the entrance road of the camp ground, we stopped to let him go to the bathroom. While he was still going we all decided to drive the car forward a little so that when he turned around he would freak out because the car was going away. He started running to the gravel road where that car was, but when he got close to the car, about 10ft away, we started going forward another 10ft so that he would have to go further to the car. Jake finally got close to the back of the car, and hopped onto the back bumper so we had to stop to let him back into the car. The best part about it was that his father was driving! From then on, Jake will now be drinking a lot less water when we go on an on car ride.
Before we fully started dinner, Kevin, Jake and I went for a walk around the shoreline. We walked about a mile from when we started to when we got back. On the way back, we saw an otter swimming a few feet away from the shore. A few minutes after that, we saw 11 swans flying across the lake. When we got back we had dinner, in which we prepared chicken, home fries, and baked beans, which was very delicious.
After said dinner, a crowd of clouds emerged behind some mountains from the north. It was a thunderstorm; the lightning inside it highlighted the shape and length of the clouds, but they did not come towards us. When people started to go to bed we star gazed, looking at the Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Cassiopiea, and the Milky-Way. Good night and we will talk to you tomorrow. Hello Mom, and Family!

Service Project-Ghost Town