Old bank/new art

As for the art, some of the most interesting work was displayed on the sidewalks between the galleries, including a life size house of cards!

JVC East has a great tradition of partying - each community is charged with throwing a party in honor of a designated holiday. The Baltimore house always has Labor Day, so on Saturday we piled into our cars for a mini road-trip south. We spent some time wandering around the Inner Harbor and splurged on some Rita's water ice before making our way to the JVC house. There was a great turnout - representatives from nearly all of the JVC communities on the East Coast, in addition to some FJVs, members of the JVC program staff, and of course, a few Jesuits!

Inner Harbor, Baltimore

This afternoon, the Jesuits who live down the street from our community invited us to a Labor Day cook-out. Father Bruce, SJ prepared what is easily the best meal we've had since starting JVC! (He admits that if didn't become a Jesuit, he would have become a chef.) Hot dogs, hamburgers, bratwurst, shrimp, ribs - even a delicious tofu and sweet pepper salad for the lone vegetarian in the group. I think we'll be spending as much time over at their place as we can this year!

It's sad that our holiday weekend has to come to an end, but at least we've still got my favorite part of a long weekend to look forward to - a four day work week!