Scholarship bowling

After the Manassas sleepover, we all awoke to a delicious breakfast made by the advisors and mom Paula put me to work designing lane sponsor signs. Once we finished eating, Sara, Reagan, Kensley, and I made our way to the bowling alley. We set up a lane with Gigi and Delaney from Manassas and began to bowl. There were gutter balls and strikes and everything in between. I mingled around while others bowled and helped cheer on my fellow rainbow sisters. However it wasn’t just the girls doing well, the adults showed up to show out this year! Dad Clancy even got a turkey which is three strikes in a row!! Some of the girls got food from the concessions bar and others played arcade games. Everyone seemed to have a great time and as we wished each other goodbye, we talked about how next year’s bowl-a-thon was going to be even better. 

With Rainbow Love and Service, 

Lauren Ann

Smithfield’s Pumpkin Meeting

Smithfield invited Hampton and Tidewater to their annual pumpkin carving meeting and they did not disappoint! We showed up first with our pumpkins ready to carve. Sara and Reagan dressed as characters from Peter Pan and I was a lifeguard. Sara gave me a pumpkin of hers since mine had rotted and I had to cut it up to salvage it. I ended up transforming it into a coconut piña colada sculpture. My pumpkin Sara gave me made everyone laugh because it was a pie pumpkin. For those of you who don’t know, a pie pumpkin is not for carving and it was practically impossible to carve through the skin. I struggled and everyone laughed but it wasn’t because I was weak because even Eli from Tidewater couldn’t cut through it! We all ate pizza as we worked and had many good laughs. We then rode to the local nursing home and dropped off our pumpkins so they could be used to decorate the grounds for the elderly. Hampton always has a great time when we attend Smithfield’s meetings and enjoyed our second year carving pumpkins with them. 

With Rainbow L&S, 

Lauren Ann

On Saturday November 10th, Sara, Audrey, Lauren, Kensley, Amelia, Reagan, Jasmine, Elise, and Alex had a sleepover at Hampton Lodge #2.  After paint night we read through our lines for our play on December 1st. Then we got some ice cream and while everyone was eating it we had a little dance party. Once everyone was done eating and dancing we headed upstairs and played a couple games of sardines, Amelia had the best hiding spot. Then we found old scrapbooks. Some of us got tired and went to bed while everyone else either continued looking through the scrapbooks or played more games. Audrey, Amelia, Elise, Jasmine, and Reagan all played a game called Mafia. Everyone got tired and soon fell asleep except Audrey, Jasmine, Elise, and Amelia. Since they were not tired they went downstairs and played a game called Clue. Then we all went to sleep. Around 9:20 am everyone got up and ate donuts for breakfast then started to pack up so we could go home. Before we went home we cleaned the lodge. Then when we finished, we finally left the lodge to head home.

With Rainbow Love and Service,

Audrey

On Saturday November 10th, all active members of Hampton Assembly #2 had a paint night led by past Grand Worthy Advisor, Lauren. It was a good turn out and there were even some Tidewater DeMolay boys who attended. We were taught how to make two pumpkins and some decorations around it but some people tweaked it or did something different in general. Kensley made the Grinch’s hand and wrote a quote above it. Audrey wrote a quote, Hunter made one of his pumpkins into Shrek, Sara made a cacti and a crown, Lauren made a tie dye background with Virginia in the middle and Hampton Assembly’s girl’s fingerprints in it, and Logan made one of his pumpkins into Pandora’s box. Also, Audrey painted a plate after she finished hers and since Reagan didn’t paint a canvas she painted a plate too.  Some of us struggled a little and others did really well. Past Grand Worthy Advisor Lauren did a wonderful job leading us through the process. Before we started to paint we had a spaghetti dinner with garlic cheese bread and for dessert we had a chocolate cherry dump cake with ice cream. It was all really good. There were struggles, laughs and jokes and everyone had lots of fun. 

With Rainbow Love and Service, 

Alex