Frosted Christmas Trees

"Yes", is the answer to "do they have real Christmas trees in the south?" Not only do they have real Christmas trees, but they also have the option of getting them spray painted white, so it looks like snow...which I like to call "frosted." It looks kinda good, but mostly terrible, but maybe that is just because I am from Maine, where we have real snow on our pine trees outside, and why would we want snow on our trees inside?! Silly southerners :-p Anywho, this past week I started and ended at the green house working with Jamie's crew again at the house where I did the bamboo flooring which is done now!

But this time I worked on doing "punch out work" like touch up paint on the walls, baseboards, and doors. I enjoyed it and it makes the days fly by for some reason, which is way better than being at a site where there isn't much to do, watching the clock tick by really slowly. The middle of the week I worked with my team at a site doing railings and we finished making them from scratch! It was pretty cool working in small groups getting the railings done and seeing just how much you can accomplish in one day. 

The first railing we all worked on, and the second just me, Mollie and Joe did on our own :) We decided to test out the sturdiness of it in this picture! Don't worry, it is very safe...no one fell off :) 

Thursday nights here are our "team nights" so this week we went out to dinner at Applebees, paid for the government, which was awesome and then we went to the park down the road where they were having a little Christmas festival and Santa was there, but we didn't want to wait in the ginormous line, so we took turns sitting on Drew's lap, because he was wearing a Santa hat that night AND has a beard...so it was pretty legit haha. 

In this picture I am also wearing my amazing purple winter hat that Mollie made for me :) She had to make it child's size for my tiny pin-head, because the regular adult size was way too big haha. 

There was also a day this week where the team split into two groups and my group went to a duplex that future AmeriCorps teams will be staying in since Camp Victor is closing soon, and set up bunk beds all day. Now this doesn't sound too difficult, but it was rough getting started...and we realized after we set them up that they have a 150lb weight limit! I don't know how many AmeriCorpers will actually be able to sleep on them! They ended up being child-sized haha Oh well, hopefully it will all work out alright...

Neva tested out the bunk beds for us...and if you look closely at the bottom bunk, you can see the imprint from her head and butt....they didn't go away after a little while either...they stayed like that all day...safe? We shall see!

My favorite part of the week was probably PT on Friday, because the team all walked/jogged/ran across the Biloxi bridge into Ocean Springs, where we live and it was a 1.7 mile bridge, and total of ~4 mile walk back to Camp Victor, but it was so worth it because we went during the sunset and even though we were walking the wrong direction (it was setting behind us) I still turned around every minute or two and got some amazing pictures! Enjoy!

This was definitely my favorite sunset here yet...and I am so glad I could capture some of it on my camera, but trust me...it was way better in person!