Long time no...

So quite a bit has been happening as we pass through the final weeks of the season up here at the Tier but at the same time, I don't know that I could even manage to remember it all to write about! Maybe there hasn' t been that much going on and it just feels like long days full of events.

Carl's final crew from Boise, ID was great! One of their cars broke down on the way to DQ the night before they were supposed to head home which was unfortunate - it meant about 4 or 5 more days here on base for half of them (the other half headed home in the other car because people needed to be home to work and get to school). They were really great about helping out with daily duties and rendezvous. Sunday, we all took the day off and headed to the Dorthy Molter museum in town as well as the wolf center (where we ALMOST didn't see any wolves but luckily they all came out to play for a little bit before we left!), a few hours on the beach (even though we didn't really swim because it was a crappy day and there wasn't anywhere open for us to change...) and then dinner at the steak house. They really were an exceptional group of kids (plus an adult). I'm glad I got to have some bonding time with them - they helped make the past few days a little more enjoyable.

The internet BROKE on Saturday morning at 3am during routine maintenance and was down until late Monday - I thought for sure the world was going to end the way people around here acted. Now the internet itself is fixed but it won't let anyone do anything on Facebook (oh no!) and it won't let people with Yahoo! mail send emails out... we can read them, we just can't send them.

Carl and I did ALL of our laundry today (except for what we're wearing of course... but its just our uniforms and we will only have to wear those for another 3 days) and it felt good to pack up all my extra clothes into my "Chicago bag" (which will now also be my Woodbury bag...) and to have just the minimum number of clothes and things in my drawer. I'm so ready to be back home! I'm not sure if I'll remember what its like to be a part of a civilization not made up entirely of 20-something Boy Scouts but I'm sure society will survive... maybe if I ease into it :)

Most everyone is leaving tomorrow or the next day... which should be interesting. It means it'll be easier for us to find a parking spot in the staff lot (even though we won't really be leaving our parking spot in the next 3 days) and easier to get access to a computer :) well maybe. I've been helping out with "daily duties" a lot the past few days - working in the office mostly. Yesterday, I helped finish imputing evaluations on the computer and then helped make packets for all of the councils in the country with promo material and summary sheets of how many crews from which council came up this summer... that was fun. I helped put them in alphabetical order this morning and I helped make off water packets this afternoon... there's still a bit of packing up to do in the history department but we'll have to wash clothes before we do any of that which is going to happen... I don't know when. Probably on Thursday John and I will wash clothes and take the tee pee down ... quality bonding time fosho.

Looks like no Kevin Dowling award for me or Carl though. Apparently we're only doing what we've been hired to do and not anything exceptional ... even though some people have gotten the award for doing what they've been hired to do... whatevs. Hmm okay now off to laze my afternoon away. All work and no play makes Cassie ... well... a hard worker and tired girl!!