"Live Like You Were Dying" - Tim McGraw

The girls (L to R): Sasa, Kate, Mollie, Katherine, Casey, Alex, Martha

The boys: Hunter, George, Jefferson, Jeff, Jack, Jack, Palmer, Walt

The top row: Ben and Brewton.

Another great week that has flown by. We had a Young Life group from Columbus, Georgia and they were nothing short of awesome. It was a change going from a group of 6 to 18 but we all got close, literally. The group was as follows, before I forget:

The girls group was Molly, Kate, Casey, Katherine, SaSa, Martha, Alex and their wonderful leader, Lindsey. The guys group was Palmer, Hunter, Jack, Jack, Walt, George, Jefferson, Breton, Ben, and their fantastic leader Jeff.

The boys getting ready to jump!

Highlights include first off I finally saw a Green flash! It does exist on clear nights over the ocean when the sun sets it flashes green. I have been trying all summer to see it and finally Thursday night I saw it and it was EPIC! Anyway other great things included cliff jumping, which is always a highlight trying to get everyone to jump. Martha's moms delicious homemade chocolate cookies, the delicious fish the boys speared for us, surviving the sail back thursday night with all the waves and hitting flamingo cut with the boat rocking gunnel to gunnel. Feeding the compass sharks off the stern of the boat while bruce cleaned the fish. Reading old man and the sea and watching everyone go through “Heaven is For Real”, still haven't gotten my hands on it yet! A long conversation centered on Harry Potter and thoughts on the new movie and why the book is so much better and explaining to the strictly movie viewers all that they are missing. Yes I am a dork. We fed the iguanas at Allens and I got bit... it didn't hurt to bad. We also had Mackerel one afternoon that we caught off the back of the boat. Matt was very sweet and had me two chicken biscuits for Christmas in July... I didn't get him anything, but I was very happy all day. We also got almost everybody in at Wardrick Wells and they did a snorkel and got to swim with a couple reef sharks! We also shared life stories every night and Jeff played the guitar and we rocked out some awesome music, including Live Like You Were Dying which we had to play an encore because everybody forgot the words the first time... Friday found us with cracked conch ( a new favorite) and fried fish, another trip to the Atlantis aquarium and a real fun time. It was another great week of warm days, beautiful water, and fun people.

PS Lobster season starts monday! I am very excited!

For proof that Lindsey was there!