Day Trip!

Roger graciously took all of us on an off-campus trip to visit two breweries and Rehoboth beach this past weekend. We started off at 16 mile brewery, a smaller start-up and then headed to Dogfish Head. We got excellent and informative tours at both, along with plenty of samples. Our tour guide at Dogfish was so friendly and familiar with our program; we invited him to come stay with us in April!

Equipment at 16 mile brewery.

We had to wear Crocs to enter the Dogfish head tour.

Mike! Our Dogfish tour guide.

Post-samples

We spent 30 seconds at the beach!

We ended with dinner (and drinks) at the Dogfish Head brew pub.

St. Patrick's Day

After Patrick finished his marathon, the crew headed into St. Michael's for the annual St. Patty's tradition of shopping cart races. The whole town comes out and at midnight there are several heats of bar patrons pushing each other down the main street in decorated shopping carts. We would've participated if the entry cost wasn't $80!

Cheering with St. Patrick's day spirit!

Competition gets fierce. 

It seems like the whole town was there, kids included.

A Saturday at Shore Harvest.

This past Saturday, 10 fellows plus 1 Mike and 1 David volunteered to help with the construction (and deconstruction!) at Shore Harvest Church's new facility!  We were so blessed to enjoy some beautiful weather and work side-by-side with faithful friends and families.  Thank you Shore Harvest!

Suresh sanding...it's harder than it looks people.

Mike torching...again, hard than it looks.

Krista and Meredith door prepping. 

Rock pile levelers Catie, Jessica, and Haley.  We mean business.

Deconstruction - Bobby, Adrian, Austin.

Bobby and Jessica.

Pizza and sunshine!

Rachel and Erin painting.

Team TFA.

Good people.  Good times.

Photo of the Week, 11.14.11

Flour attack to celebrate Suresh.

Drop a birthday beat.

Austin's 26th birthday (10.3.11) was celebrated in the midst of many surprises - rainbows and shadows, latin hats and ninja-esque streamer head bands, austina stockings and trail mix easter eggs, bony knees and pyramid prowess. Go team go.

Happy fellows.

Take one...

Take two!

Austin's birthday bash!

We kicked off October with life stories, sweet visitors, and a fun dinner at Ava's in St. Michaels (Happy Birthday Austin!)...

Siblings Rachel and JD!

Happy Birthday Austin!

Yummy dinner. Thank you Mom and Dad!

Story time.

Pop n lock parking lots.

Saturday night rendezvous (9.24.11).  This group can get down... in parking lots and makeshift dance floors.  Thanks to Patrick and Meredith for the dance lessons at the Easton Brasserie!

Raise your hand if you want an ice cream cone

Pinky pray? Are you kidding me?

We ended our Thursday evening community meeting with a prayer.


And some interlocking pinkies.


Clearly, this must be an American thing... or maybe just an Erin thing...

Sunday night worship

After lessons in crabbing, we decided some worship was in order.  We sang hymns, rounds, and contemporary songs on the beautiful Osprey Point pier. What a blessing to worship with such sweet friends!

Lessons in Crab Feasting

Last night we were generously given several pounds of crab to enjoy for dinner. Little did we know what eating crabs in this form actually involved. Krista took the reigns on steaming it up and we all (okay, except me) enjoyed dissecting eating it!

They look apprehensive, no? 

Seasoned with Old Bay, or as Catie calls it, "Old Spice"

We decided to eat outside to enjoy the view, and avoid having our kitchen smell like crabs for weeks to come.

Suresh seems thrilled.

This photo brought to you by Patrick's obsession with camera timers.

Harder to eat than it looks.

Party crasher. Rude. 

Get it girl. 

Still going strong.

For a first crab feast, it went pretty well. The less we talked about what we were actually eating, the better it went -- lesson learned. We still have plenty of crabs in the freezer for the next time we're feeling adventurous hungry.