Today went pretty quickly. Day two of working on the site went well. Lindsay, Emily and Brie joined our group. Instead of hammering, we were moving the wall frames we had hammered the day before onto the house sites via a flatbed truck. It was hard work but had more down time and waiting than hammering. For instance, at one point Brie and I were sitting in an airconditioned truck blocking the street that the team was unloading at the other end of. (Luckily, only one vehicle stopped to talk to us, the people that needed to cut the grass where our team was unloading the frames. But that group scared me a bit, I felt like a small army was trying to puncture our barrier, complete with camouflage pants on the one man!)
The highlight of the day was probably the driver of the flatbed, who we eventually nick named "Crazy Paul". He was pretty rushed in getting us to do things and in a pretty rude way he kicked out some people that were working on the floor at one of the sites we were unloading at. Also, he liked Emily and kept having her go everywhere with him. This eventually led to him insisting on teaching her to drive a bobcat and her driving that back to the main site, which is really illegal. He also later pretending to bite a cable. Man I wish I had had my camera ready for that!!
On our way to dinner, we ran into Rin-On and Warren: they had arrived this morning and that means everyone has arrived! For dinner, we went to a creole/italian restaurant called "Mandina's" and I got a huge stuffed pepper with macaroni and lima beans. Afterwards, Cassie, Adam, Kim & I headed to Walmart to pick up more food for the rest of the week. On the way back to the hotel, we stopped at "Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro" and picked up some cake to go. After unpacking the groceries and making dents in the huge pieces of cake we got, we made the lunches and headed to sleep, exhausted!
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