Mah Jongg Mountain Style

I’m in one of the most beautiful places on earth, not that I can see it. Today started Roaring Gap Mah Jongg camp. Two intense days of beginner Mah Jongg.

I got up early to make the drive up the mountain to Roaring Gap. I’ve made this drive countless times since Carter went to camp here and worked at camp here for most of her talking years.

This trip is courtesy of Michelle Beischer who gathered her friends to learn with her as well as generously host me. As a bonus her youngest son David is here for a few days.

The bad news is that the weather is especially awful. I drove up the mountain and could barley find the Inn thanks to the worse than any London fog. It was pouring so the golf course was more like a water park.

It was really the perfect day to be stuck inside learning Mah Jongg because there was nothing else you could do. After a day of learning Michelle and I were forced to needlepoint because we could not take a walk before dinner.

Getting to the lake club to have dinner was it’s own adventure. Davis drove practically by feel since there way no way to see the road, especially without any lines painted on them. Mary Lee from Durham and her daughter Sydney as well as one other Mah Jongg student Martha and her family joined us for dinner. There was one small moment when the fog on the lake lifted and I took a picture. Then five minutes later you could not see the dock just outside the window.

As we were leaving the lake club to inch our way back to Michelle’s we met a couple who had just arrived. As we were talking the woman and I discovered that we had grown up seven houses apart from each other in Wilton, CT in about 15 of the same years. We belonged to the same club, knew the same neighbors, but since we are about six years apart in age we did not know each other then. It’s just a small world.

Michelle, Davis and I have stayed up too late talking. Michelle dictated a suggestion for a three word blog, since I am exhausted, but I had to tell the whole day’s story. Finally I will sleep to be ready to continue Mountain Mah Jongg tomorrow. Pray for dry weather.