Week of E memories

A friend was sharing his favorite Week of E memories (Week of E was a weeklong mission trip all LCC students went on every spring.) I went to Martha's Vineyard for three years, my Freshman year trip isn't even worth mentioning. Here are a few of my favorite memories.

-I remember Neal Windham (my professor who married Aaron and I) getting down on the ground and imitating a gorilla to entertain a little girl.

-I remember getting mad at the man at the camp who kept making us move piles of mulch/bricks/dirt, whatever he could find only to move and pile into another location. When he told us to go and mulch everything around the camp, Dave Drake, Tom Harrison, Trent Seggelke, Jeremiah Auble, and myself mulched EVERYTHING. Pop machines, twigs, some pipe sticking up out of the ground, all while enjoying Spanish rock on the radio! That was the year we decided "mulch ministry" needed to be added to the description of the trip.

-Trying to get Trent Seggelke to say the word "poop" and Neal getting in his face and seriously asking, "what is your poop deal?"

-Getting a high school student to chug Maneshewitz(sp?) wine at a passover sedar (in my defense, I thought he had grape juice!)

-Singing "Amazing Grace" in a nursing home accompanied by a man in a kilt playing bagpipes. I remember Dave Drake telling him "we are in A" and he responded, "oh, it doesn't matter" then proceeding to play the most horrendous sound I have ever heard, and little old ladies covering their ears and scowling.

-Collaborating with some of the most talented musicians I know and performing at the coffeehouse.

-Preparing meals together in the little triangle house.

-Eating at the No Name in Boston, seriously the worst restaurant ever, but Danny Clymer loved it!

-Ditching the freedom trail and enjoying Ben and Jerry's on Newbury street.

-The most beautiful Gerbera Daisies I have ever seen.

-Picking out a skyscraper and trying to figure out how to get to the top floor. Andy and I went up an elevator and when we came out, it was a super fancy office. We tried to turn around to go back down and there were no buttons! The receptionist asked if she could help us, and he asked if we could look at the window. Surprisingly she did, she lead us into this state of the art conference room, and we had some fantastic views of the city. She then had to push a button so we could get back onto the elevator.

-Swing dancing on the beach at the Vineyard.

Goodness, too many to share, these are just a few. I think I may have to pull out my pictures!