My trip to Portland today was really fun. Simba and Raptor also came along for the ride, as I dropped Mango off at the airport. The city feels very "go green" and the fact that there are a lot of Green Peace people on every corner. One caught me outside the mall. I just thought he was a fairly cute guy with a ski hat on until he started talking to me and I looked down at his green shirt and said "Green Peace" in big green letters, by that time he was already into his speech. He asked me if I had ever heard of Green Peace and I thought to myself "DUH Whale Wars...and wow that show is crazy" I said yes I had and then went on to explain that probably like him, I was a poor just out of college student that didn't have money to donate to Green Peace every stinking month. I gently tried to push him away with the "do you have a website I can look at?" line and quickly walked across the street. I've learned my lesson. In Boston, I just walk by no problem, but Portland people are TALKERS wowzers!
The Mac store was good and bad. Good because I got a new ibook and FREE ipod touch (once I do the online rebate.) I also updated my facebook status from an ipad while I was waiting for my turn. I had a whole lot of fun playing with the ipad, but it's name disturbs me. I still can't say the word ipad without thinking of a special time of month for the female population. It just kinda ruins it for me. The bad part was the data transfer from my old computer to my new one will take a few days because of all the other computers in front of me. I was disappointed because I was looking forward to playing with it, and blogging tonight. I will wait. That just means another fun filled trip to Portland next week once the campers are gone.
Speaking of campers, we have our next batch coming in tomorrow. They will be staying till Tuesday. I think the group will be smaller just because we had 3 campers come last week by mistake that were registered to come for this week. Also just the fact that we lost Mango today as a counselor the numbers will be lower because we have to have a certain staff to camper ratio each week. I'm excited to meet the new faces and personalities. I'm gaining a huge blessing out of serving others and in turn learning more how to serve God.
Much love till I blog again. PS don't be afraid to comment...I love reading the responses :)
Jill!
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing that you got a free ipad. Jesse is going to be super jealous once I tell him. It sounds like things are going well for you, so glad. I'm happy for ya. Life here is the same. Before we got back to Andrews for good, we spent some time with my family. I was able to see Baby Ben Will finally! He is super sweet. Really tiny compared to the Malin babies. I've returned to work too. Oh, the joys of being a grown up. Hope we can chat soon. Love ya.