St. John Sat. 2/26/12

Today we got up very early and had a quick breakfast before heading out to the mile 4 marker where we set up a water/gatorade station. There were 1100 runners this year. It was great fun passing out cups of water to the runners. The course is actually 8.3 miles, but over very hilly terrain! The winner came in at 46 minutes I think. We cleaned up our area and headed back to camp. I took us an hour and 45 minutes to get back as we crawled up the hills behind the last runners who were actually walking and jogging by that point. We hung around camp for the rest of the day - just relaxing and chilling out. John, the volunteer who lives on his boat, made pizza for everyone for dinner - delish! Randy, the boss, and Zoe, the intern, made fresh onion soup and french bread. We really had a feast! The big boss, another Randy, has recently had a heart attack and is home in Baltimore recuperating. The other volunteers wrote a get well song for him and we videotaped it. One of the other volunteers put it on youtube so he could see it. We had a very good time listening to music and talking. A couple of guests came in for the night so we got them settled and stayed up a bit longer to chat. We went to bed around 9:30. It was good sleeping weather - a lot of wind and some rain.