Day 6

Today was great! I think that we cooperated really well, so WOO! We rock! Vlad, Michelle, and Greg, working together as the Fill Crew, created a new hole for fill soil and helped the other crews by filling buckets with soil and setting this soil down to stabilize the tread. Dan, Rex, Chris, and I worked on the stone staircase, installing two rocks and completing it. After adding finishing touches using fill soil and smaller rocks, we proceeded to remove rocks on the trail and took out two large rocks. Jon, Rich, and Jenn added about eleven or twelve more stone steps to the trail. Later on, we all had a heated discussion on Pokémon, considering what levels we were at (The limit for the levels is 20, not 100) and how many Experience Points we could earn with each feat. Rich, whose level was very high, broke the pickaxe, splitting the wood up the handle using his special Deft Attack or Deft Strike or Deft Something. There’s a picture here too. Meanwhile, Terri, Brittany, and Brian were building tread at the higher parts of the trail, where Brian was unlucky to receive at least five bee love-stabs. He exacted revenge by killing his attackers, but later was still followed by other bees. We stopped for lunch one hour later than usual and Jon used his teacher-storyteller skills to narrate a Star Wars-based Mafia game, raving about the planets’ United Nations-type meetings, (each person was a planet) the evildoings of Death Star and Death Star II, and the good acts of Yoda-planet, the healer, and Luke Skywalker-planet, the detective. After lunch, we all hiked up the steep trail to see what the path would be like, but we had to turn back because the recurring thunder suggested rain. In the vans, the drizzle evolved into a stronger rain, proving Jon’s instinct to return correct. We stopped by Memorial Park for a quick Roses and Thorns session (or Guns n’ Roses, as Greg calls it) then went back to Voorhees High’s parking lot, where people said their goodbyes and see yas and left to relax after another great day of hard work and fun.