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“Form a line and don’t fight or push, there’s plenty of food.”

Despite the warning, I found myself being jostled to the back of the line by a bunch of boys who were all almost a foot taller than me. I sighed and resigned myself to it – let the boys get out of the way and then I’d be able to get my food peacefully.

As the line spread out I caught glimpses of the food. There were baked beans, a salad, and Hamburgers.

Hamburgers. After two weeks in the wilderness, we were getting Hamburgers! I didn’t blame the guys for pushing me out of the way after that – I wanted to do the same once I saw the food!

The instructors were serving our food. All we had to do was hold out our plates and say yes or no to the different things. At the end of the line Katie was serving a tray of cookies, and without fail, every single kid asked for two. All Katie did was smile as she shook her head and dropped one on our plates.

We walked over to the tables and everyone tried to find a good spot to sit. I sat down at a table with a bunch of my crewmates. Tullia and Jordan were sitting with Colter’s crewmates Davis and Grant, and they were laughing and talking quite loudly.

I don’t remember if I’ve written about this yet. Tullia and Bobby had become good friends on the trip, and they’d started calling each other “Hubby” and “Wife”. They didn’t mean anything by it, and it made us all laugh.

Well, when Bobby saw Tullia sitting and laughing with Davis, he grinned and said “do any of you guys have a pen?” Of course we didn’t, but he went and found one anyway. He came back and sat down next to Rebecca. “Can you draw a heart on my arm and write “Tullia” in it?”

Rebecca nodded, taking the pen. Bobby rolled up his sleeve and pointed to where he wanted her to start drawing.

“Bobby, what are you going to do?”

Bobby grinned. “You’ll have to wait and see.”

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