Your mission should you choose to accept it...

One house. Thirty people. Two House Managers. Stirred, not shaken...because Bond had it wrong. You get chaos and exhaustion!



No, there was no chaos. Controlled chaos maybe, but utter chaos? Not when Maddy and Sara are house managers. It actually went really well considering that we both only have so much experience cooking and never for 30 hungery teenagers. We made the same thing for dinner as Pieday Friday. Shepards pie, quiche and pie again for dessert.



Everything went really well. We couldn't get everything out on the table when everyone came back from playing dodge ball because we were playing as well. Having to participate kinda infringes on your timing. So there were people hanging out in the kitchen while we were trying to get everything in the oven and cooked or warmed up. Actually there were so many people in the kitchen that Maddy had to draw a red line on the floor with dry erase and have Kwaku stand there and be our bouncer. He wasn't all that effective though. He kinda just stood around and watched people mill around our space. Actually they were dancing in our space too until Maddy physically picked Alyssanne up and put her behind the red line. And then later there were people literally sitting and lying down in our kitchen space, but by that time so were we so it was cool.



We had so much food when everything was said and done though. We actually had two leftover shepards pies and almost a whole sweet pie. There was only a bit less of a quarter of a quiche left but that was only because we didn't know that one of the new participants in Marathon is vegetarian (or doesn't eat beef maybe) and Manitouwadge's PL, John, nearly ate a whole quiche to himself. It was impressive. He would just wander into the kitchen and look at the oven and we would ask him, 'John, do you want some more?' and he would hesitate then answer 'Uh...yes.' I still can't believe that we have leftovers from that. Two whole shepard pies and that is after people at seconds and thirds. And then the dessert pies, though it's true that a bunch of people were feeling kinda flu-ish/cold-sick and Cassie was actually throwing up from the night before (poor Cassie, she's feeling a better now)...But still! People hadn't had breakfast that morning. That is how hungry people were and we STILL HAD LEFTOVERS! I don't think I can stretch this enough. And Maddy also made muffins and I made a cracker cake (thanks Zia Silv!) but people were so full that they only had one or two pieces of pie, meaning we got to save the rest for ourselves.



And now to get off the subfect of food. It was nice seeing all three groups together again. It's been a month since we were all in one place at the same time and having everyone in one house was nice. It kinda felt big and empty after they all left though so that was odd. But I didn't stay awake to much longer after they left. Only long enough to clean everything up and then Rosie gave me a shoulder massage on her bed and I ended up falling asleep there. Then Simon came in and started calling me Rosie and talking to me in french about 20 minutes later and I had to wake up and tell him I'm Sara, not Rosie. Then I ended up climbing into my own bed, checking the time (9:08 pm) and falling asleep until whispering voices woke me up (12:00 am-ish) and falling asleep again until Maddy got up to go to work (7:00 am) and drifting for another hour until I had to wake up (8:00 am).

And that was about it. We went to the train museum in Schreiber, the waterfall in Terrace Bay and played dodge ball at the Senior's Center. Then everyone danced, talked, vegged and ate at our place.

I hope your Sunday was just as exciting!

Sara