After a rough first day, Alex settled in and had a great time at soccer camp.  The camp was held at Elon University, a private college in Elon, NC (very close to Burlington, NC).  All of the camp instructors were actually college coaches – Alex’s instructor actually just got a new job that weekend.  Alex learned a lot of new drills and played against some very good soccer players. Most of the campers were in fact not from the area, many travelled pretty far to get there and some weren’t even from the country.  Overall he had a great time and really wants to go again next year!
  Soccer practice for TCS starts in a couple of weeks and both of the boys are going to be playing.  Just to forewarn everyone, you will probably be tired of soccer photos in a couple of months, but this will be the only time both boys play on the same team and it is Alex’s senior year!  🙂

While Alex is off to soccer camp, Sam has been continuing his scuba lessons.  He has just two more after today and then his test on Saturday at Fantasy Lake.  He will also have a free dive on Sunday and we hope he will get to use the Go Pro camera for that dive.  The photos below are at ECU/Minges Aquatic Center in the saltwater pool.

Sam starts scuba diving lessons this week.  We found a dive shop in Greenville that has classes at ECU/Minges Aquatic Center and gets his final certification at a man-made lake outside of Raleigh , Fantasy Lake Scuba Center.  The lake has a sunken bus and boats for him to explore. This group seems much more organized than the original shop as they had cancelled on us due to the murky water around Radio island.  The question is does Sam look more like Dustin Hoffman in the Graduate or Aquaman?  We are leaning more towards Benjamin Braddock in the Graduate because he definitely can’t swim as well as Aquaman.

Not his best look…

Minges Aquatic Center, ECU

Fantasy Lake

The boys wanted to go up and see Grandma Lillian while they were in town… they did have a lot of fun.

Sam took a few photos of Nana’s flowers around the yard…. he is becoming quite the photographer.

A short trip up to Camp Waynesboro to see the girls and the fireworks.  The fireworks were a week later this year, July 11th.

We went over to the Friday’s (Joe and Kelly) tonight for the 4th of July.  Of course it was also Drew’s birthday and some of the Dilday’s clan came over too.