I kill bugs with my face

Hey hey!!!!

We are in Asheville NC. When will we ever leave this state??!?!?! I feel like i've been here forever.. .but tomorrow we will finally enter Tennessee. Wohoo!!!!!

The past couple of days have been quite something. The ride from Taylorsville to Newland was insane!!!!! We actually started to pedal up some mountains. WHY couldn't they have built some biking tunnels that went THROUGH the mountains?? It was hard, very very hard. I actually walked my little self and bike up a few parts of it cause I could walk faster than 3 miles an hour, which was what I was doing on my bike. hahaha. The climb was rough, but I was with some of the most amazing girls and they made it completely worth it. We had such a good time making the most out of our difficult day. I think we were partly dehydrated and delirious and couldn't stop laughing at the stupidest things, but it was fun. So thank you Maura, Becky and Angela. Also, the climb to the top was make totally worth it because the view was incredible and then we got to speed down a very windy steep road and it was AWESOME on a bike!!!!!!! However, my face has become a living windshield for the stupid gnats. And butterflies. Poor butterflies.

So we thought that day was bad, but it just got worse, going from Newland to Asheville was also another very hard day. This was 50 miles of up hill climbing on the Blue ridge Parkway, which was GORGEOUS!!!! the views from the insane altitudes were AMAZING!!!!! And then me and the other two people i was with ran out of water and food, and tried to bike to this restaurant but the restaurant ended up being 2.5 miles up a steep slope, so we had to get ride and the very super nice people that drove us to the top, which happened to be the highest peak on the east, or something crazy like that, paid for our lunch!!!!!!! that was soooo nice. And then I bought a T-shirt. And then we had 30 miles of down hill which made it all completely worth it. And then we had dinner at Maggie and Sam's house, their brother and sister that are doing this trip together and their parents live in Asheville. Dinner was SO good, So good, so good!!!!! oh by the way, Sweet Caroline is our team song, we sing it a lot.

Ok also, Jenn... guess what game we play once a week at our town hall meetings, which are our group meetings that we have just to touch base and talk about this and that?!!? well we play HI/LOW. We talk about our best parts of the week and our lowest parts of the week. I tried to start this little tradition while I was in England with Jenn. It didn't go over too well.

Also, Today was a build day in Asheville and guess what?? I once again was awarded with the 'screw up' award. hahahaha. It was the first ever to be handed out in Asheville. I dont' think I really screwed anything up, someone just told the supervisor to do it. But today's 'screw' award was larger than the last. I'm keeping them and putting them in my scrap book.

This blog is wack and all over the place. sorry. but you all will just have to deal.

love you a lot



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