not vacation

Though I did take vacation hours to be able to do it. Last week I volunteered in the kitchen at Camp Mennoscah. I got there late enough that Olivia put me up in the Retreat Center for my first night. There was a time I would have resisted such surroundings at camp, but I thoroughly enjoyed my private room, private bathroom, private shower, and private AC. Here I am in my swanky abode (I am amazing at the self-portraits, as you will see later in one of my vacation posts).

I cooked Thursday breakfast through Saturday breakfast, and I had a wonderful time. And I ate way too much. All breads/baked goods (and almost everything else) are made from scratch...my favorite. It was totally exhausting – I was in the kitchen from 6/6:30 am - 9/9:30 am, from 10 am - 1:30/2 pm, from 3 pm - 7 pm, and again from 8/8:30 pm - 10 pm. Pretty much every chance I got in between those times, I was napping, even if I only had 10 minutes. Sleep-y. I did skip some nap times to make ice cream with Olivia, go to the pool with Olivia, go to the post office with Olivia, and go to campfire. I also managed to finish a book I'd been anxious to finish since vacation. I had just a great time. I'm planning to go back to volunteer next week too. Here's everything [I can remember] we made in that short time I was there:

• coffee cake
• little smokies
• mashed potatoes with roast beef gravy
• corn
• I do not remember what our lunch dessert was
• taco salad
• kolaches
• verenike casserole
• zweiback
• green beans
• peach cobbler
• bierocks...I got to brown like 25 lbs of ground beef at once, plus fill them!
  
• pudding/Oreo dessert
• cinnamon rolls