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I looked around at my crewmates, waiting for someone to say something about my suggestion. They looked like they were thinking about it, so I did not say anything. Then someone said they thought it was a good suggestion, and it was put in the crew agreement. 🙂

After everyone had said what they thought should be in the crew agreement, we packed up our stuff and left. We had to get back by that narrow trail we had come by, so that was nerve wracking. At least this time my bad foot was on the inside, towards the mountain.

We had to get back and pack while the people on bear hang got the food down. I was cook, so I did not have much time. But I did not have that much to do – I had done most of it while the girls were waking up. So I went, put my journal away, gathered my pens back, grabbed my eating materials, (bowl, spoon, water, and mat) and headed back to the kitchen.

I was feeling pretty good that morning! While it was weird not hearing my crew and not being able to talk or sing, it had been beautiful where we had sat. I had gotten a relatively good nights sleep, so that was nice. I had not gotten enough sleep, (we never got enough sleep) but compared to the nights I had been having, it had been a fair amount.

I got up to the kitchen and set my mat down where Luke and Rebecca had put theirs the night before. Luke was my partner again today, and I was glad for that. For one, it looked like he knew what he was doing when he was cook yesterday. And he was fun to work with, and he could make me laugh. 🙂 Laughing is always a good thing.

I went over to where Luke was with the fuel and the stoves. We had to fill them up and then bring them to where we were actually cooking. When we had brought them over, Luke asked if he could sit on my mat. I told him that was fine, and asked him what to do next. He showed me how to light the stoves, which I thought was really cool. You dipped the pot grips in the fuel, and then lit the pot grips on fire. Once the pot grips were on fire, you dipped them in each stove so the fuel in each stove caught fire. Everyone thought that was really cool. 😀

We were having oatmeal for breakfast! Oatmeal with brown sugar, a little bit of leftover honey from lunch the day before, and raisins if you wanted them.

Only a couple of people wanted the raisins. I remember how Bruce’s eyes lit up when he heard there were raisins. Apparently he loved raisins! I say loved, because after all the raisins we gave him (from the trail mix) he is going to be sick of them for a long time. Ok, maybe not. I know he did start saying no to them after about day 9… LOL

As soon as the Oatmeal was ready, we started passing the bowls. Luke would give them a scoop of the thicker oatmeal from his pot, and I would give them a scoop of the thinner oatmeal from my pot. The brown sugar and honey were already in there, and I sent the raisins around the circle once we were done passing the oatmeal. Bruce took probably a third of the raisins, but no one cared. The rest of us did not really like raisins, and we did not want to have to carry them so we were happy for him to eat as many as he wanted. 😀

Once my bowl was cleaned out, (the water did not taste too bad that morning…) I went to pack up my stuff. I asked Bruce and Luke if they were carrying my stuff again, or if I was. Bruce said I could carry the tarp, since he did not know where he would put it, but Luke said he would keep the repair kit. I was glad for that – the repair kit was pretty heavy, and any weight that other people could take would just help me go faster.

I was called over to Jen’s platform. It was time to check on my ankle, since the first aid kit was out! I prayed that it would look better, but it was definitely not feeling better…

I headed over to the platform where Jen and Tullia were waiting (Tullia was being the doctor’s assistant). They looked at my ankle, decided it was even more swollen, and wrapped it up again. We took a look at the hot spots (possible blisters) that had been treated on day two, decided that they were still pretty red, and treated them again. Jen left for a minute, and that was when Kayce came over with a huge blister the size of a penny on the back of his heel. He asked me if I knew how to treat blisters and I told him that I had seen Jen treat mine…

I took those horrible shears that they have in the first aid kit and tried to cut the moleskin, but ended up just butchering it. That was when Jen came back and I willingly gave up those awful shears and the butchered moleskin. 😀

I put my boots back on and went to finish packing. Jen called out that if we were ready to go in a certain amount of time, (don’t remember how much it was…) we would get a treat. We were all standing in a circle, packs at our sides, with two minutes to spare.

Katie came over with her hands behind her back. The anticipation was building rapidly, and I could see some people nervously chewing on their lips, staring at Katie with a questioning look in their eyes.

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