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We hiked for what seemed forever. I started out near the back, with Jen. Everyone was talking, asking their “newlywed” partner questions random questions. Like, really random.

 “If you were a creature from a myth, what would you be?”

“If you could be a character in a movie, what movie and who would you be?”

“How old were you when you lost your first tooth?”

“If you could learn any language in the world, what language?”

“If a famous singer was going to write a song about you, who would it be and what kind of song would it be?”

And then there were the not so random questions.

“How many pets do you have?”

“Are you a cat or a dog person?” (I think everyone on my crew except me was a dog person. :D)

“How many siblings do you have?”

“What is your favorite TV show?”

“What is your favorite food?”

 I warned Jen that we were probably going to lose, since I was not going to be able to remember anything she told me. When I am tired, things go in one ear and right out the other. I don’t even realize that it is happening, until someone asks me a question. Then I realize that I have completely forgotten whatever they were saying about 4 minutes ago. It’s not good, but I have not figured out a way to fix it yet. 🙁

After we had hiked for a couple of hours, we made it to where we were going to be eating lunch! It was a good thing – I was really hungry that day. It was also where we were going to be doing our first service project. We dropped our packs and looked around the place for a minute. There was a little clearing, and a shelter overlooking a cliff. Next to the clearing was an area of trees with spaces in front of them, with a bit of litter. There was also some brush on the other side with even more litter. When we were done looking around, most of us went and crashed in the shelter, glad for a break.

At that point, whoever was on food that day was getting it out. They were setting up the kitchen in a little clearing away from the shelter, so I grabbed my bowl, spoon, water bottle, and black mat and headed over there. I set my stuff down and headed back to the shelter. I asked Katie about something I could use to get the splinter in my finger out, since it was started to get infected. We disinfected a safety pin and I picked out the splinter, which took a while. By the time I was done with that, lunch was ready. I disinfected the safety pin again, put some triple antibiotic ointment on my finger, and walked over to the kitchen.

Lunch that day was simple – peanut butter and honey on Pita bread. It was not that bad!  It made me laugh though, because from what I remember most of us were not having plain peanut butter and honey. Some of us were adding cinnamon, (that was me… :)) and some of us were adding things like Texas Pete (hot sauce) and garlic powder. Honestly, I think that was disgusting. Everyone who tried it liked it though!

When we were done with lunch we cleaned up, and went back to the shelter. Jen and Katie asked who had the trash bags, and Luke pulled them out of his pack. Our first service for our trip was going to be cleaning up this campsite, picking up all the litter.

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