Independance Day

what a day!! i woke up around 10 and read some and then went to work at noon. then i spent FIVE HOURS in the salad pit slicing fruit and then making watermelonade. i'm pretty sure that fruit salad was worth hundreds of dollars... it had strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, green and purple grapes, and this melon called santa claus... no i'm not kidding. we also had brisket, potato salad, pasta salad, and deviled eggs. i mean we made 300 deviled eggs! that is a lot of eggs. i made sweet tea and then the watermelonade which was DELISH! i'm totally making it when i get home... it is made of real watermelon and fresh lemon juice... yum. it was gone in a flash! it is amazing how you can spend hours in the kitchen and it is gone in 30 minutes. and then for dessert we had strawberry shortcake. the cake was made of like sweet biscuits with orange rind in them... so good.

so after dinner was worship and after worship the staff choir sang Battle Hymn of the Republic acapella. WE GOT A STANDING O FROM THE STUDENTS! it was so weird and made me miss performing a lot. i'm really excited about singing for graduation also.

then i read some more. when it got dark outside, everyone went outside the front of the hotel and watched fireworks. the city of manitou springs fire department does fireworks off a mountain next to the town for everyone and they were really good fireworks!! one was orange and purple :) after the fireworks we had all the students go through the kitchen cause we had brownies and ice cream for them. and a girl on staff got glowsticks so we raved all over the hotel... it was funny. so all in all... it was a really good day. best independance day ever!