The family that runs the place where I’m volunteering was kind enough to invite me on their Sunday funday outing to a hot spring a few hours away.  It was amazingly beautiful and a super fun day of picnicking and splashing and relaxing.  And while I was happy to be there and thought it incredibly generous of them to include me, being in another family’s bonding session really just made me miss my family.  I kept thinking, “If I were with my family, there’d be a whole lot less Scrabble and a whole lot more fart jokes.”