Tuesday

6:30 am: We went downstairs to find our breakfast and fill up our water bottles. Mrs. Vieth made us breakfast casserole which was very good. We then left to go to orientation. Sister Judy gave it and told us very moving stories, which of course made us want to work even harder. We were getting nervous, but the weather was nice. One group painted and one group was going to do mold removal.
10:00 am: We (Hayley and Abby) arrived at our job site to find many more girls that had already started. We scrubbed mold with some solution and then we had to stop and wait for our paint to come in. So in the meantime we went to the “House of Feathers and Dance.” Mr. Lewis our house owner is in charge of it; it had a lot of antique and Mardi Gras Indian costumes and pictures. He hold us his story and showed us many pictures. It was very cool. Then we ate lunch and Mr. Lewis let us eat on his porch. We bonded with the other girls at this time and told them about our celebrity encounter: James Marsden! With all the people we had, we got a LOT done. Our leader’s name was Ali. She is very laid-back and cool.
Our day (Jamie and Kirsten) started off by meeting Jen. She put us to work right away and we painted, swept, and ripped up tile—mostly just painted. Jake got two nosebleeds. We waited out in the hot sun for an hour, waiting for the bus carrying the other group.

7:30pm- Went to Bubba Gumps’. This is where all the fun starts rolling in. Speaking of rolling, we won a pencil by dominating people in a trivia game. We got one Bubba Gump trivia question right. We sort of looked off this one paper but it’s just called using our resources people. The food was lovely but the waitresses were FANTASTIC! First off the waiter Ken break danced for us! And we mean he got jiggy with it! You could say he liked to move it move it. This guy spun on his head, circled on his hips, basically what you see in the movies. To add to all this excitement our wonderful girl waitress sang for us! Our coolest waiter was Reesie, she was the bomb. We heard her silently singing to herself but we weren’t going to let her get away without putting on a show for us. So we begged her and her lovely friend to sing for us. She was so good! We ended up getting a picture with Reesie and we are now close friends (on Facebook at least). We then went to some nearby shops, but none of us bought anything. Then we went back to the hotel. We really wanted to swim, but since it was raining, sadly we couldn’t. After that we sat in our room and worked on our blog. And that’s how our great #2 day went. So far this trip is a BLAST! Now we are going to rest up for our next big day!

1:00 am: Bed.