Viola Camp (and My Birthday!)

It's August, and I'm at viola camp again (this is my fourth year now). I'm having fun, which I'm glad of since I haven't really played my viola much this summer and I was worried that I would have too much trouble keeping up (I'm doing ok so far). I'm the "college intern" this year, so I have a fun week of errand-running and ghost-blogging ahead of me.

I had my 19th birthday last week on Friday and I had a really fun time. Alex took me out to a farm by Nampa called The Sheep Shed. They raise sheep (as the name suggests) and the woman of the couple that runs the farm teaches spinning lessons. Alex got me a loom there, which I have been weaving with (or at least I was before I left). It's been lots of fun. Alex made me a ring out of wood on his new lathe and I started whittling a knife out of wood with my awesome new (and extremely cute) little Ka-Bar (my birthday present to myself).For dinner, we went out to the Crow Inn and had steamed clams, which were superb. I baked my birthday cake, and I'm glad that I wasn't making it for anyone else, since I accidentally cooked wax paper onto the bottom of the cake, but it turned out ok. None of us are big sweets eaters, so the majority of it is now in the garage freezer. Frozen cake is good in the summer, though. Lori gave me a gift card to one of the yarn shops downtown and enough money to get a spinning lesson from the lady at the sheep farm (Cleo), about which I am very excited.

That's about all for now. Lunch is almost over and I need to get back to the church for more viola fun. : D