Special Olympics! (Stolen from Katie)

K, I've got about 10 minutes of energy left in me, but I wanted to quickly write up my crazy day. It started at 5:30 this morning when I woke up to jump in the shower. Jason woke up as I was rummaging around getting my clothes. I got him situated with a movie so that he wouldn't go roaming around the house waking people up and showered. After Jason and I were fed, I took him over to Cindy's. I was able to see the kids for a bit - Shelly is still pretty sick - and I was off to begin this next adventure.

Honestly, I can't remember what happened this morning...It is a jumble of random last minute set up details, finding out where everything was happening, and meeting the bus drivers. Melody (my cohort over transportation) and I had to figure out the bus schedules, making sure they didn't go over 10 hours - it was hard since they had all just driven 6 hours to get here. Then we had to worry about who needed to get where and when, and if we had enough time and drivers.

The biggest problems of today:

-Forgetting to send a bus to certain hotels, we had some people waiting for an hour or two

-Lost luggage, a good Samaritan turned out to be not such a good Samaritan, since the luggage actually went to a different hotel...

-One of the bus drivers didn't have a hotel reservation...he got it figured out, not too sure what went on there..

-Making one bus driver go over his 10 hours because we were bad at communication

-Getting yelled at at the end of the night because of the 30 minute wait for a bus

-Lack of cones for blocking off where the buses were parking, so we had to stand all day in the spots telling people to move

-Going far too long without food because we had to figure out the above problems

The biggest ups of today:

-Getting to know Melody really well (we spent all day with basically just the two of us at the bus drop off/pick up), we have a TON of inside jokes now

-Spending time with the Special Olympics athletes

-Having a radio and listening to the funny things that were said

-Ranking the bus drivers by likability

-Having Nilla show up with food for us!

-Being asked if we are free to come back next year to work it again (TOTALLY!!) and it's only the first day!