"Born to Wander": "Carry On My Wayward Son"

The group, Josh, Ray, Shea, Sydney, Catherine, and Sarah

Our beautiful spot for July 4th

Another week has flown by. It is really getting hot down here but I am enjoying the water too much to care! The group this week was another really fun one. It was a Young Life group from Memphis Tennessee. Their were only seven though! It made it fun and a little more relaxing for us. It was three girls, Sarah, Catherine, and Sydney and three boys, Josh, Ray, and Shea who all just graduated high school and then one leader, Kelly. We had a blast all week going to all the hot spots.

Our fantastic sunset

Highlights included going to Corona island and the boys disappearing onto the island right by it and coming back carrying a giant wooden pole and raising it on the corona island! All that was missing was a jolly roger at the top! The fourth was spent snorkeling and playing waboba ball in wardrick wells and eating taco salad and drinking goombay punch ( a bohemian soft drink that is basically carbonated pineapple – deliciousness). We also played BananaGrams every night and I actually was pretty good the first couple nights, then everybody started getting good at it! More fun was had while watching Ray run like a lizard across the sandbars and watching Catherine conquer her fears and swim with the sharks at compass. Jumping of the cliffs at thunderball and snorkeling for matts glasses that he forgot to take off... we never found them. Watching the boys ride the pigs (poor things) and feed them with a spoon which one ripped right out of Shea's hand. Seeing all the baby pigs and Shea getting bit because he picked one up. We also swam with the sharks at danger reef. I did real well this week and wasn't really scared at all and swam around the boat and even talked Sarah and Catherine into getting in. The sharks were all like 40-50 feet deep by then but sarah turned around and one was probably 20 feet from her and she freaked and splashed around attracting them to me! It was fine though, they weren't very big! We listened to rock all week because the boys had the 500 best rock song playlist from rolling stones. I really enjoyed that! Got in some swimming at Hawksbill and even a little kayaking! Every night we had great talks and Kelly's passion for Christ was contagious. We had great food and conversation all week. One night we just beat a storm to our mooring for the night but I loved watching the storm blow in and even saw a couple water spouts (water tornados) but don't worry mom they were far off! It was beautiful. All in all another great week and another hard time saying goodbye! I am really starting to love mondays and hate saturdays, who knew that would be possible?