The Best Spring Break EVER!!
Hey guys!! Okay, so I had the best spring break ever!! First, I went to Aubrey’s house and it was a weekend of NEW experiences….
First new experience was small ball bowling or in other words candlepin bowling. WOW! Who knew there was more than one way to bowl? For all of you that have no clue what that is, just like me, it is like bowling because you have ten pins. But, they look different. Like straighter. And you have three small balls that fit in your hand. And you have two chances to throw the three balls (so like six chances) and then it is the next person’s turn. But, each turn goes into two boxes. So really each person only plays five times, instead of ten. I know, very confusing. I was absolutely horrible at it. I needed the three holes, and basically I was out of my element. I would have taken pictures, but I LEFT MY CAMERA CARD IN MY ROOM!! Not a big deal, except all the dorms were locked till after spring break…. But we’ll get to that later…
Next, I had a Fluffer Nutter….Okay, so we, in Ohio, don’t have marshmallow fluff, (at least I have never seen or heard of it) and so like a couple weekends back I was playing Catchphrase with Aubrey and Marshmallow Fluff came up and I thought it was the substance that created marshmallows. Well, everyone laughed at me and Aubrey was determined to feed me a Fluffer Nutter, so here it is: My First Fluffer Nutter (which for everyone who doesn’t know, is a spreadable marshmallow cream and peanut butter sandwich)
Okay, so then some of my other new experiences were working in a nursery… yeah for everyone who doesn’t know, kids are not my favorite. I mean I like working with them when they are older, but babies are just too much fuss and work. But, I was helping with Aubrey and it was definitely interesting. Then I posted on Sysko (like riding but like going up and down with her) and it was AMAZING! I loved it and cannot wait to do it again! Aubrey is training me! Here is some photos of her jumping… it was really awesome, she had a really good practice that night!
Then I headed to Arizona. It was AWSEOME! We stayed at this really nice church in Avondale and the weather was like 80 and sunny! And the first day we were exhausted, but ate this amazing Chinese food (best tofu I have ever had)! And then throughout the week we worked till like 1:30, from like 7:15 and we painted, put up drywall and insulated houses. I also calked a living room and loaded a truck twice with roofing tiles. Everything was new, but I really learned a lot about building a house. And of course it was for an amazing cause! For all of you that do not know Habitat for Humanity does not give houses away. They make houses affordable with a no interest mortgage for families that do not need a hand out, but a hand up. (Someone said that this week and I really liked the saying). And the families have to work like I think 400 hours on their house and another person’s house. This week I met 4 homeowners. It was really cool, because one of the homeowners was the one we had dry walled and he was just so appreciative and you could tell what this meant for him! This really changes their lives and it is just an awesome organization!
One of the houses we worked on in Peoria, AZ
This is me hammering in a nail.
This is the complex we worked on in Surprise, AZ.
This is the closet that Rachele, Jen and I dry walled!
Some of the better moments of the trip were when while painting the ceiling with a roller attached to a pole; the roller somehow unscrewed and fell on my head!! My whole head was covered in eggshell white paint and still is!!!
Then we also got to see Sedona, which is this really peaceful and supposed to be spiritual town. All the canyons and rocks are this really dark red color. We hiked there and it was just breathtaking. Then in the middle of all these huge rock formations is this church. It is really thin and glass covers it so that you can see everything around. We went there and it was also amazing!
Beautiful Sedona!
This is from a ledge off of a huge mountain/rock thing.
This is the church I was talking about.
We also went to the Phoenix Symphony which was nice and to a spring training game for the San Diego Padres versus the Oakland A’s. It was nice to be in the sun and a cool event to go to, but everyone really was burnt like tomatoes!!
Someone hitting for some team, during some part of the game!
Finally, we saw the Grand Canyon! It was so amazing! Breathtaking and like way better than I expected! We traveled 8 hours total to get there and it was so worth it!
Me at the Grand Canyon.
So, overall going to Arizona for spring break and working for Habitat for Humanity was better than any other college spring break I could think of!! Plus, the people that went although… very different… were awesome! We really learned to be a team, especially during insulation day. It was the best because although insulation is such a horrible and tedious job, it made it better than our team was kick butt!!
Some of us at the Grand Canyon.
Anyways, I hope your spring breaks are as good, or were as good as mine!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Marilyn
