Day 2 -- April 20

Actually, these are a couple of pictures I took on Monday, but they go with the second day too.  :-)  This was my bed in our little cabin.  A mom and her camper were on the other side of the room; we tried not to disturb them when we got up in the morning!  We were officially known as the "Kitchen Queens," our title which was posted on the door. 

The main item on the breakfast menu Tuesday morning was an egg/sausage/hashbrown scramble, which we served over corn or flour tortillas.  We beat the eggs the night before -- one per each of the 100+ campers! 
Elena, posing for someone else as she starts to crack eggs.

Me and Mica, also getting crackin'.

This scramble is really supposed to be a breakfast bake, but Mrs. Marques had discovered in the past that with such a large quantity it is impossible to get it all baked in time to serve.  So even though we got to the kitchen very early the next morning, it was better for her to cook the egg mixture on the big griddle.

I saw a curious visitor when I was taking out the trash during clean-up.

Since the campers were gone all day at the Capitol, we did not make lunch for them.  Instead, we drove back into Austin to clean the house of a dear friend of the Marques family who was putting her house on the market.  We had a good time cleaning and visiting with her.

We ended up staying a lot longer than we had been planning... and then to make things even more interesting, the suburban did not want to start when we finally did get out the door.  Praise the Lord, there were a couple of men working out in their yard just across the street, and one of them came over to see if he could do anything.  He wiggled some wires and did some other kind of automotive "magic," and to our extreme joy the suburban started up.

We had left Emily, Jennifer, and Anna back at camp, so they were waiting for us when we returned.  They got to work right away preparing the chicken for supper.  Mrs. Marques wanted to grill it with herbs and garlic, so they cut each breast in half in order for them to cook faster.

The main dish for supper was chicken with farfalle noodles in an alfredo sauce.  We had lots of noodles to cook...

I asked Emily to take this picture, because Laurie specifically told me before I left to "Wash lots of dishes!"  I certainly did... and even got it documented.

That evening, despite the fact that we were all tired, we all gathered in the kitchen to work on the "Hymn of the Month" that Mrs. Marques had brought.  Their church leaders pick a hymn each month, which they sing each Sunday during that time, to help families get to know some of these wonderfully inspiring pieces more deeply.  Mrs. Marques was needing help learning the alto line.  I had happened to bring my soprano recorder, and Mica had her violin, so we joined our voices to those instruments and had a delightful time of worship in that old kitchen. 
In the end we decided we needed to have a picture, but as all of the campers were attending chapel we didn't have anyone to take it for us.  We went to all sorts of lengths to get several pictures using various cameras with their self-timer settings. 

What a wonderful way to end a long and productive day!