September 26 (RACE DAY!!!!! =0 )

Boy was today a very looooonnnnggg day. Well at least it seemed like that. First i was up very late on Friday night(I went on a date =) ) and didnt get back home until like 1 in the morning. That was a bit my fault since I could of picked a different movie or even a different movie time. Anyways I put my alarm for 5 am. The reason i put it so early was due to the fact that I had to come from Caldwell to Boise and its almost a 30-45 min drive, depending on traffic. Anyways I didnt wake up until 515. I hit the snooze like twice and finally decided to get up and going. I didnt think it was going to be so cold so i decided to wear shorts and a short sleeve shirt. That was a HUGE mistake. It was a very cold morning and I was freezing my butt off. I raced into Boise since i only had 30 mins left after getting ready. I made it to BSU at 550 and I parked my car in towers general parking. I decided to walk to the Ann Morrison park(dont ask me why) and it was still dark outside. I didnt know if i was going the right way at first but if worse came to worse I would only be a couple minutes late. I walked through the wet grass and my shoes got so wet it made my feet hurt from how cold they were. I finally got to the middle of the park and there was a tent were we had to sign in at. There was quite a few of volunteers(more than what i expected) out there. We were given intructions on how to set up the tents and we built them. We then put some of the food out as we were instructed to. All of this only took us an hour and it was supposedly supposed to take us around 2-3 lol. Well since we were done we just stood there freezing and getting to know each other. There were a lot of people doing the service learning program. Well at least to me it seemed like there was a bunch. Anyways around 830 one of the coordinatoors came up and ask if 3 of us would like to go to the water tent and share waters. I didnt want to just stand there so me and two other people decided to go with the coordinatoor. We started to open up the water boxes and put water on the tables. Then we realized how bad of an idea was for people to grab their own water so we appointed a couple of people to hand them out(I was one of them). The racers didnt show up until 9ish and thats when the day just began to fly. There were so many woman and their daughters running it was a very good sight to see. People were happy to finish and get a water bottle. Time went by so fast the next time i look at my cell phone to see what time it was it was almost 1. I was pretty sure that I had enough hours in so i decided to go to the check in place and the lady said i was right i had all my hours in. =) i was happy so i told her thanks for the t-shirt and she thank me for coming out and helping. It was such a wonderful experience I think imma volunteer next year and see if i can score another sweet shirt!