Sunday, August 20, 2017
Whatever needed to be done. That’s what we did today. We could end it right there and just include some pics but guess we should elaborate a little.
First we got up early and met Els in the parking lot at 6:45 for the ride to the garden. It was just barely light when we started and a little foggy. We picked the corn in short order and were back at the campground by 7:25.
There were at least four varieties of morning glories in the garden.
After showers and breakfast it was time for worship led by Dawn who is responsible for the mission projects of Hinton. She is a deacon in the UMC and she is appointed to Hinton by the North Carolina Conference rather than a church. This was her first summer with all the youth mission teams and she loved it. We had a wonderful service in the chapel overlooking Lake Chatuge. What a wonderful worship setting. After worship we visited with some guests and spent some more time with Ken and Joyce. Then it was time for Anne to go to work. Joyce had kitchen duty at each meal today. Max and Ken also helped out washing dishes. Max and Ken also had parking lot duty. Parking lot duty has been more just walking around making sure everything looks OK. Guests have a parking permit in their cars and Max and Ken really just need to make sure we don’t have a lot of non-guest vehicles coming onto the property. The expected crowds have not appeared, at least not yet. Town is very quiet still. So the parking has not been a problem, yet. Again today Anne only stayed in the office about 20 minutes when she was asked to go to the welcome center and help out there. It was pretty busy there. More guests arrived throughout the day and with more people on campus there were more questions to answer, directions to give and do whatever needed to be done.
We were selling eclipse glasses and had an area set up so people could decorate their glasses and bling them out. When Phillip, the chef, came by to pick up his glasses, Jackie, the CEO, tried to get him to bling out his glasses. He said he was too busy but she could have at it and he tossed her his glasses. Jackie then took up that challenge and worked on blinging out the glasses. The ear pieces now say Chef Phillip and Bon Appetite with eyebrows of thyme and salt and pepper trim. We thought they turned out really well, but somehow he didn’t seem quite so impressed. Later this afternoon while Anne was still in guest services, Max was asked to accompany the disc golf tournament.
When that was over it was time for dinner, which was again very good. After dinner we had a question and answer session where Ken took questions from the guests concerning the eclipse. He did a great job! Made us NOMADS look pretty smart. Last event of the evening was the viewing of a documentary on the eclipse entitled “Totality: The American Eclipse”. It was very educational and at times very funny. We would recommend it if you have not seen it. So now it’s 10:00pm and we need to go to bed. Max has parking lot duty at 7:00 and Anne will be back in the office/guest services at 8:00. Tomorrow should be a very busy and exciting day. Totality!! So glad we are here.
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