In the morning, we all arrived for our last day of work, kind of tired but quite motivated to finish up after all that we’d worked on for the past five weeks. The silver van went to Mountain Farm early, and the other van people went off to play over at Jon’s mom’s house. (?) We stretched and discussed our favorite words, like “indubitably” (was that the word?) which Rich and Bryan both liked. After this, Jon, Dan, Bryan, Brittany, and Chris went off to the trail to polish it up, resetting two rocks and cleaning up stray horse dung. (Hahhahah creeper stache ahahahha) The rest stayed to clean tools, buckets, and helmets. After, water war broke out—Rexifer the Merciless vs. the Jenerator and Deathstar!—and the forces used bottles (guns) to shoot water (bullets) at their enemies! The others who helped clean the tools just chillaxed. We then put away the tools and went off to Point Mountain, met up with the others in our crew, got orange marker strips (they work very effectively as ninja bandanas), sang some songs, and hiked up while we each presented topics on a certain deciduous forest species. Chris started off with his very happy “Hellooo, I’m Chris Haines!” Jon gave a shot at a manly girl attitude in respect to Michelle, and Jen did her “Woo!” finger-twirling maple seed demonstration. Bryan gave his white-tailed deer spiel and was indubitably interrupted by Rich’s (he’s so white!) well-timed performance of a deer who lost one antler and underwent metamorphosis to become a narwhal. Vlad delivered an Indian pipe lesson, even giving its scientific name Monotropa uniflora, and Terri helped everyone by introducing lots of information on the topics since she is a walking encyclopedia. We stopped by Mountain Farm again, busted out to some radio music and Technu, which Vlad refers to as new techno music. We went off after that while the other crew cleaned their tools, and arrived at a river, but Jon, with his oh so talented driving skills, brought his van to a sturdy halt when it got stuck in this pebble hill kind of thing obstacle, yeah. Main point: He couldn’t get the van out, so Rich took advantage of his EMT-firefighter skills by positioning hard, dry sticks behind the stuck tires, and getting Jon to put the car in reverse. About six people pushed the car while Jon kept the car going back and, voila, ten seconds later, the car is out, safe and sound! And the bumper DID NOT get scratched… Another note: When you’ve got ten teenagers to help you out, there is no need for a toe truck. We had lunch by the river while Vlad and Rich (and Chris, after he finished his lunch) went off walking from rock to rock. Rex tried but was clumsy and not logical. If you get one foot wet, why would you make the other one wet too?! Brittany was deliberately clumsy and walked around IN the water, WITH waterproof boots since she is an intellectual. (How do you expect the water to come out?) Others then started scaling the stones and we had Roses and Thorns. We left for Voorhees, but because the silver van is so awesome/oisome, we blazed the roads while loco drunk on MEXICAN MOONSHINE (Mexican moonshine!) by Ghoultown! (And no, we weren’t drunk. Mexican Moonshine is a type of tequila. By the way, the URL for the song is http://www.last.fm/music/Ghoultown/_/Mexican+Moonshine and to listen, look to the right at the radio button)
Note for the rec trip:
1) 12-person tents are, apparently, banned.
2) Dan, cousins are forbidden. Jen and Bryan are exempt from this law. And Dan, you must follow it since you are a law-biding/biting citizen.