Square Dance Camp - Morris, PA

August 27th - Friday - Beautiful - Ideal weather

We left home yesterday around 2:00 pm to drive the twenty miles to Morris, PA to take part in the Canyon Square Camping Weekend. It was the perfect day to be outside and to enjoy the beautiful mountains and country breezes.

Lou was up early and went to our friends house, that is recovering from cancer, and helped he and his wife hook up their fifth wheel. They were not able to attend last year as he was receiving chemo at the time. So this year we are excited to have them in attendance. In fact they are parked right next to us.

This is a great group of people and we all have such a good time together. Yesterday, we all took our time setting up and just enjoyed chatting with one another. There were no planned activities yesterday or last evening.

We all sat outside and talked until dinner time and all back to their rigs to fix dinner. Lou and I had been cheated out of our good dinner on Wednesday, so I brought along pork chops so I fried them, cook potatoes to mash, had fresh green beans and made milk gravy along with freshly baked banana bread, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden and for dessert, I had baked a homemade chocolate-raspberry cheesecake.

After the kitchen was cleaned up and dishes done, we had friends from Middlebury Center that stopped in to chat, after they left, Lou and I settled down for the evening and enjoyed a movie that had just arrived. It was suggested by one of our SMART friends. The Bucket List, and Steve was right, it was a good movie and we both enjoyed it. We got ready for bed and both of us enjoyed our books that we had brought along.

We awoke early this morning and we were cold, it was 48 degrees outside, and I reminded Lou that he laughed at me last night when I told him I was going to turn on our electric blanket. At that point this morning, Lou turned on the heat, and it did feel darn good.

After breakfast we went into the building where we will hold the dances and decorated the tables with fresh flowers that everyone brought from home and set up the chairs for on lookers and put out games and puzzles for folks that don't want to dance. We also set up tables for a Chinese auction and used square dancing clothing.

Tonight we are all going to the "fish fry" at the hotel in Morris and we dance at 7:00 with ice cream sundaes after we finish at 10:00 pm. Saturday is full of many workshops, for square and round dancing and a pot luck dinner at 5:00 and "dressed" dancing tomorrow evening. We finish with a worship service on Sunday and a "trail away" dance following the service.