Our first day on the site volunteering for Habitat for Humanity! I was so nervous the night before that I kept waking up every few minutes for the last few hours with nightmares about sleeping through my alarm and then with nightmares about things that could go wrong. So silly. We got out reasonably on time but luckily we had left plenty of extra time to get there because we got a bit lost on the way there.
Once we arrived, we met up with April and Tiffany and signed in, armed ourselves with bug spray and sun tan lotion and, after a brief introduction, got working hammering together frames of walls for future houses. It was a lot of hard work in direct sun light but it was really neat actually creating something.
Everyone on the site was pretty nice. There was this huge group all wearing matching shirts from a church with over 10,000 members in Cincinatti, OH named "Crossroads". They said they have 7 buses coming down this week and another 7 buses coming down next week!! Incredible! They had so much matching stuff. They were really nice. We met two people that used to be from New York, Jesse and Esther (we think they might be married.) Turns out Esther actually works as a financial analyst for Macy's in our headquarters in Cincinnatti! What a small world! Jesse was very friendly and soulful. As he would say, "lots of positive energy, all around."
I held up pretty well in the heat, (I've been very nervous about being in the sun this much since I have had bad reactions to the sun in the past.) So far so good though. I got a little red on my forehead and I have a bit of a Rudolph nose, but besides that I escaped unburned. I do have minor rashing on my arms but hopefully that won't get worst. And I got a huge blister on my finger. But besides that, I survived day one unscathed!
The day was over before we knew it and we headed back to the hotel, in dire need of showers and rest. After freshening up and starting a load of laundry, we went to a restaurant Kim had seen recommended on a blog called "Port of Call". It was only 4 blocks away from our apartment and was known for its burgers. It looked like such a dive from the outside but man what great burgers and baked potatoes! And we got to keep our plastic cups. :-)
Emily and Brie arrived today and Lindsay just landed. Our group is growing quickly! Excited for day two tomorrow.
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