Yesterday I drove the beautiful and winding 3 1/2 hour drive to the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Mountains to get Greg. He had been in Brevard, North Carolina for 4 days with classmates and his high school coaches for cross country camp. Jonathan used to attend this same camp each year in high school and had always enjoyed it so much. When I arrived I could see why.
Brevard is a quaint, southern, mountain resort town nestled high in the mountains in the corner of western North Carolina, not far from where the quadrangle of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and, of course North Carolina, join. The students stay in the dorms of Brevard College and it is just lovely!
After driving lost around the school campus a couple of times, I finally located the dorm Greg was staying in. As luck would have it he and a group of friends just happened to be walking across the grassy open space. Of course I had to ask the group for a picture and Greg was just mortified with my request! As you can see from his face in the pictures he was probably thinking "Gosh Mom, how could you?"! But his friends were more then happy to ham it up for the camera! These kids are hard workers and I have a feeling they are going to have a very successful season.
I always ask Greg to rate things on a scale of 1-10. Whenever I bake something I always ask this question. He is very truthful and gives me an honest answer when I do this little game. So when I asked him to rate the cross country camp he gave it "a 9". I think the only reason he didn't give it a 10 was that he had to leave early. He truly enjoys cross country which is such a surprise to Marc and me. We never imagined that this boy who has played the very physical sport of ice hockey since he was 7 years old would take so enthusiastically to an individual sport like cross country. But, he really enjoys it and wants to help his team win the state championship this year. Great goal Greg!
