Our day began yesterday with a 4:45 alarm. We were holding the college's annual Memorial Walk to raise funds for the Hugh Cummings Memorial scholarship and with sign ups and pre-walk activities starting at 6:00 a.m. and the walk kicking off at 6:30 in the morning that meant getting up and being out the door by 5:15. We have to start the walks early like that because by 8:00 a.m. it gets too hot for many people to be out strenuously exercising. We helped set up the tables and water stations along the route and then participated in the walk with Katie being in a faster moving group and Scott acting as the back end marshall having to make sure everyone was in front of him and that everyone who started finished the walk or got a ride back. About 40 people participated in the approximately 5k walk from the college campus down to Pedro Castle and back. Dubbed a walk from the birthplace of tertiary education in the Cayman Islands to the birthplace of Democracy in the Cayman Islands we raised over $1500 in scholarship money and had a great community building event for the student body.
Our late morning and early afternoon were uneventful but as evening drew near we dressed up to attend the long delayed retirement dinner for our past President Dr. Elsa Cummings at the Grand Old House Restaurant at Petra Plantation. The dinner and program lasted almost four hours and we pulled back into our drive way just before 10:00 p.m. and just in time to watch the second half of the Texas-Oklahoma basketball game (Horns won 73-68). At 11:15 we trudged up to bed exhausted from a long and eventful day. On Wednesday Scott heads to Miami and Katie comes up Friday afternoon. We will be in Florida through Monday morning returning early Monday afternoon. This morning we put Scott's father, John, on a flight home after a week on the Island and later in the week Scott's brother Kevin arrives and we are already planning the fun things to take him to (we hope he like stingrays because a trip to the sandbar has already been reserved).
Our late morning and early afternoon were uneventful but as evening drew near we dressed up to attend the long delayed retirement dinner for our past President Dr. Elsa Cummings at the Grand Old House Restaurant at Petra Plantation. The dinner and program lasted almost four hours and we pulled back into our drive way just before 10:00 p.m. and just in time to watch the second half of the Texas-Oklahoma basketball game (Horns won 73-68). At 11:15 we trudged up to bed exhausted from a long and eventful day. On Wednesday Scott heads to Miami and Katie comes up Friday afternoon. We will be in Florida through Monday morning returning early Monday afternoon. This morning we put Scott's father, John, on a flight home after a week on the Island and later in the week Scott's brother Kevin arrives and we are already planning the fun things to take him to (we hope he like stingrays because a trip to the sandbar has already been reserved).
