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I picked up the paper and unfolded it, wondering what it was. There was a list of scores, and each number had the name of a country near it. There was no explanation on the paper, so I found the letter and opened it.

“I’ve included the Men’s gymnastics scores from the Olympics. I thought that you might be interested in seeing them, since you’re not around to watch the Olympics yourself. “

I laughed and made a mental note to tell my crewmates the scores when we got back together. We had all been talking about the Olympics the other night, wishing that we were home so we could watch them.

When I was done reading Grammy’s letter, I put it back in the envelope and opened up the next one. It was from my Grandma.

“I know you’re missing a lot of the Olympics, so I included some of the scores. You like gymnastics, right?”

Underneath that, she had a picture of the woman’s gymnastics scores. I started cracking up as I realized that both of my grandmothers had sent me gymnastics scores, and they probably had no idea that they had both done it!

I moved to the next page of the letter. It had two pictures on it, filling up the entire page. There were captions under each picture, a line of text.

“Meet your new buck, Stash! He’s adorable, isn’t he?”

Yeah, he was a cute little guy. Mom and Dad had gone to pick up up after they dropped me and Colter off at the airport, so I hadn’t seen him. He would make a good addition to our herd.

“Look at what’s happening up at Scottsburg! Exciting, huh?”

I stared at the picture of our new soaproom in disbelief. I put the letter down as I started sobbing, unable to stop myself.

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*