up with kady

yes sarah, i immediately thought of you and ryan in the jfk airport whenever i played spit. speed here. i loved it.

and yes i realize that it is saturday and i'm writing friday's but whatev (more sarah thoughts!)

so friday. ummmmm . . . . oh right. ci day. ci being community impact. our first one! yeah!!!!!!!

so what we did is get on a bus at 8:30 and left for up in the mountains. we were working with this group called . . . well i don't know. but anyways they work on the mountains creating trails and basically maintaining them. cool eh? anyways so after our like two hour bus ride we got there. half the cast got off and the bottom and the mountain and then the other half of us took the bus up this crazy narrow winding road. dr people, think the ride up to los cacos but one lane, dirt, and in a huge tour bus. yup. anyways then we got out and met the people that we would be working with. they were awesome and they explained to us some of the situations. thy had this huge forest fire in 2002 and much of the land is still not back. it's so weird to look at it because it was this contrast of dead and alive. all the trees were black and charred, but there was green grass and wild flowers growing beneath them. pretty neat.

anyways so we all grabbed our tool of choice (rake for me), put on a hard hat (in case some of the burnt trees decided to fall on us), and started our one mile trek up the mountain.

now a one mile walk is not that far. but a one mile hike up a steep mountain is something else. now it wasn't really that bad, only some parts were really bad. and plus i'm not in the greatest shape so . . . yeah doesn't help. it was a gorgeous walk though!! haha we looked like the seven dwarfs. climbing up this moutain, rakes, shovels, and mine pick things over our shoulders. it was cute.

so we got to the top and ate our lunches, took some fun pictures, and then got to work. the people with the pick things went first and broke down the dirt, creating a path. then we went behind with the rakes and smoothed it out and made it even and about two feet wide. and then the shovel people went behind us and gathered all the excess dirt.

so why we did this is because there is a huge lake at the base of the moutain and it provides 75% of the drinking water for the denver area. and when people walked up and made their own paths, it cause errosion, then when it rained a lot of drebree (?) would collect in the lake threrefore making the water less clean. so by creating one good trail, everyone will use that, thus eliminating unnessicary errosion. pretty cool.

anyways so we only worked there for like two and a half hours, i wished we could of stayed longer. but we couldn't so we walked back down and then got on the bus again and then picked up the others (who got to go swimming . . . . so jealous) and then the group who we worked for treated us to ice cream. so cute. and then we got on the bus and came home.

we got pizza for supper and heard about cyannes gymnastic tournament. she got 1st in the vault. wohoo cyanne! and then we went to see hairspray. which i thought was good, but lauren says the musical is way better. and thats it. i'll write todays tomorrow.