Photos from Quadra

Last night Nathan called to tell us some exciting news: he was in another boating accident!

Last year during the last week of camp, Nathan was driving a boat and collided with another boat in the water. The accident was investigated and both drivers were not court martialed (phew).

So yesterday evening during the duty boat run (the duty boat runs every evening to pick up staff cadets who were on leave during the day in Comox and Courtenay) as the driver (not Nathan this time) was drying to dock the boat, it hit and dented a sea plane that was docked there. The pilot was not amused...imagine that! Nathan and the other staff cadet radioed back to Quadra and two officers came out in a power boat to take photos and such. After they assured the pilot that the DND would fix the plane, they moved closer to take close-up photos and they almost hit the plane! These would be two commissioned naval officers. The pilot said, "you guys are making me really nervous!" So, much less exciting than last year's accident (thank you, Lord) but I told Nathan that now his accident for the year was done and over and everything would be smooth sailing now. No pun intended.

These are photos from Quadra where Nathan and Sean are. You can see Nathan in one of the pictures of "Life on the Waves." These are from last year...I don't see any 2008 photos yet, but these give you a really good idea of how the boys are spending their summer.

Sean called yesterday. He still has hardly any voice. I asked if he was planning on going back next year (which will be a 6-week camp) and his response was "definitely!" So that's the real barometer of how he's doing. One of the kids from the Aldergrove Sea Cadet Corps, Angela Radmore, is his DPO and she was on the duty boat last night so Nathan had a chance to talk to her about how Sean is really doing. She thinks he's doing great. He's getting very little sleep, which is apparently par for the course, and might have something to do with his not having a voice. I asked how the food was and he said he loved it! That must be what you get for having a mom who doesn't cater to picky eaters. Another corps mom just sent her daughter a huge box of food (energy bars, etc) yesterday because the daughter complained that the food was inedible.

Said mom is visiting daughter this weekend and said she'd take a care package to Sean and Nathan for me. So today I'll be baking chocolate chip cookies and asking Dylan to go get some berry shortcakes from Krause's. That'll be a nice taste of home for them...