Work Weekend

While some of you were out frolicking around the MD Wool festival I was enlisted in some cheap slave work in Cape May. A friend from work suggested to a group of us that we take a girl's weekend at the Chalfont in Cape May for one of their work weekends. This historical building is in need of repair and maintenance work each year and they rely on volunteers to sign up for these weekends to keep things up and running in historical style. It's a grand old building with lots of historical wonders.

For $35 and a promise of 10 hours of work throughout the weekend we stayed in charming rooms and were served meals like southern kings.

Several of us were assigned the large wrap around porch to scrape, sand, and repaint.
After 10 hours of hard work and LOTS of scraping, the porch went from this

to this to this

We met a ton of wonderful people from all over and spent a little time walking along the beach and throughout the town. All in all it was a wonderful weekend away from home.