Oh, and my trip was a lot of fun and a growing experience. :) It was my first build away from home (meaning I couldn't come home every night) but that was OK the first two nights because I stayed in our trailer.
Mom and dad hauled our trailer up a couple of weeks ago for use by the brothers and sisters who also couldn't drive home each night. When we were there one brother in the kitchen crew slept in my bunk, one slept on the folded down kitchen table and dad and I shared the master bed in our own sleeping bags. Dad and I traded off on who was and wasn't sleeping all night. And let me tell you what. He SNORES. Seriously, my parents and grandmother are epic snorers. Usually I'm at the other end of the trailer, not next to either one of them. Thankfully I brought caffeine otherwise I would not have functioned the next day. It was also only through Jehovah that I was pleasant to the rest of the crew. A nice morning person I am not. Being surrounded by roosters when I woke up kinda helped though.
Friday we bent pipe and put on mud rings and drilled holes and I got to go up on a ladder and promptly lost all coordination as I had three guys watching my every move. Stage fright! On a ladder! I survived and felt useful and it was good.
Saturday we ... basically did more of the same but the smoke from the fires, coupled with all of the sagebrush and dust started to cut off my breathing, prompting me to use our emergency inhaler, which gave me the jitters (worse than I remembered) which meant running around the work site wasn't going to be a good idea. Thankfully I found a fellow card player so we played several rounds of speed until it was time to strip wire and run tails on the speakers, which is my favorite part of the build (even if I do have a habit of nicking the inner wires when stripping the bundle). We were done around lunch time, at which point dad took me back to the trailer so I could pack my things, moved me to the trailer I would be staying at that night and dropped me back off at the work site while he went home. This was a stressful time because I didn't know dad wasn't staying until Sunday when I agreed to work Personnel. This meant I had to scramble to find a new place to stay. Sleeping in a trailer with two men to whom I am not related (even if they are the-annoying-uncles-I-never-asked-for) and driving with them in their separate cars isn't exactly appropriate. Thankfully I could bunk with some sisters from the kitchen crew, ride in with them at 5 am to be there for check in at 7 am. Also thankfully, I had access to the sound trailer so I could stash all of my things there until it was time to go home Sunday night, as well as having a nice, quiet place I could retreat to after Personnel was done for the day and before going to help others. I could also put on my makeup so I looked simi-awake when welcoming our brothers and sisters. :D
Sunday morning it decided to rain and someone didn't cover the internet router so during one of the rushes three of us stood there with clipboards, hand writing each volunteer's information as rain soaked our tables. Internet came back later but then Builder Assistant went down (Google and all that jazz worked), which meant we had plenty of time to watch the house down the hill smoke. I never saw any flames, the firefighters responded very quickly and got it under control and no one was harmed.
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