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As we were sitting in the car a blue sprinter pulled into the parking lot and parked in front of us. It brought tears to my eyes – it reminded me of home, and I was sick and tired of the 15 passenger van! Those things are so tiny… so uncomfortable… I wanted to ride in a Sprinter.

The driver got out of the car, a man who I’m guessing was in his forties. He had light brown hair with a haircut that looked kinda like a Mohawk. He was pretty tall, and all of the girls started saying that he looked pretty cute. And then Patrick showed up.

He pulled up in his truck and parked in front of the trailer with the canoes on it. We had parked right next to that trailer the night before, so we couldn’t really see him as he got out of the car. But then he walked over to where Jen, Katie and Glenn (the man from the sprinter) were standing.

One of the girls sitting behind me squealed.

“Ginger!!!”

It scared the heck out of me. It also made me think for a minute – Ginger is the name of one of our cats. I actually looked around for her before realizing that I was at Outward Bound and my cat was not going to be there. I looked around to see what they were talking about and saw Patrick for the first time. He had a lot of red hair, and I realized that’s what the girls were all talking about.

Apparently the other girls on my crew found red hair attractive. LOL

We were told to come out of the car and get our backpacks to the trailer. We carried them over, met Patrick and Glenn and then stood around awkwardly. Someone told Katie that they had to go to the bathroom and I said I had to go too. I wanted to use a real bathroom one more time before we left civilization. The thought that I might not see a toilet for another ten days freaked me out.

On my way out of the building, I took a drink from the water fountain. Not as much as I would have drank if we didn’t have an hour and a half drive in front of us, but a good amount of water nonetheless. It was good to drink water that didn’t smell and taste like a swimming pool.

Our drive time was over an hour. It was boring at first, but after a while we turned the radio on and started having fun. I was sitting in the same spot I had sat in the night before – second row, closest to the door. But this time Luke was next to the window and Bruce was next to me.

This is how we sat: I got the amount of seat that I needed to fit my butt on. If I was lucky I’d get an inch or two on the side. Bruce sat two or three inches away from me, and Luke had the rest of the seat. And whenever the three of us sat there, that was the way it was. I never said anything – I was usually having too much fun when we were in the car to say anything about it to Luke or Bruce.

Why was I having fun in the car? That horrible 15 passenger van? There was the singing and dancing. And then there were all the times I got to punch Luke.

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks to NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*