A day on the water...and in the rain!

This is Vanessa posting this time. (The others went to a birthday party last night, but I opted out because I had a cold from the lack of sleep earlier in the week. It turned out to be a very late night for them...maybe one of them will write about it sometime later, when they've fully recovered!)

Today, my host family planned a boat trip to the beach for our whole team. For the last few days, they've been a little uncertain about the weather forecast, and indeed, it rained most of the day. :( We had fun anyway...it was nice to see another part of the area and to have some free, vacation-like time (i.e. no uniforms required!).



Luckily, there was a below-deck area, so when the rain intensified, Erin and I went down there, soon followed by the others.



Once we made it back to the marina, we went to the restaurant there and had a delicious meal - some ate steak parmesan and others of us had flounder. We weren't given menus (although we saw other tables with them), so those were the choices the host family told us about. Good recommendations!



Now, it's Saturday evening. I'm sitting with Rhonda, Erin, and David and my host family. There's a nice fire burning in the fireplace and rain coming down outside. My host parents are in one side of the room watching TV, and we're on the other side talking with each other and their son (who is 29 and in Rotaract; he went on a GSE exchange to Germany last year).







Tomorrow is Mother's Day here, so each of will spend the day with our families.