So today was our first friday with the crew, and it was rather exhilarating. We decided that a half day of work would be optimal considering our schedule for the coming week. Our expectations for the week had been met so we elected to further projects that we would be tackling in earnest on this coming tuesday. Arielle took a few members to do some much needed lopping along the beginning part of the trail, and her efforts showed wonderfully. Colin took on the staircase Arielle had been working on, and made some serious progress despite the difficult terrain. He and Taylor also got to use the pulaski today. They looked totally boss. I was working in the rock pit area of what had been dubbed "the boop" (the name given to the series of rocky hills around which we would be working). there was some serious work to be done and we encountered some massive setbacks. While moving a particular rock (the crew dubbed this rock "Lauren's rock"), said rock shattered into what seemed like a thousand pieces. As if this rock shattering like my dream of being a roller derby star was not enough, the rocks above it began to shift into unstable positions. We spent most of the day brainstorming as to how we should approach the new problem of facing the dangerous possibility of a rockslide. Totally bad news bears.
The second half of the day consisted of caching and hiking back down the trail so we could go on a Pirate Treasure Hunt set up by DJ PhenomaJON aka Jon-a-thang aka Jon Wolfman aka Jon. The treasure hunt was at the Arboretum where we ran around looking for Pirate jokes/plant identification/CANDY! After a very thrilling search, we went to Sunnyside park where we went GEOCACHING! We managed to find a teeny tiny "bison tube" (think about half of your pink finger small). Very frustrating yet delightfully fulfilling. We then visited Arielle's personal cache then went back to school.
ALAS, this week is coming to an end and I leave you with this final tidbit.
Sincerely,
Johnny Law aka Lauren
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