Day 14: Driving into Salt Lake City!
(*We recorded before mail, so the audio is not the whole blog)
Our view for the night!
One of many screaming seagulls
The view gets better and better
"Wakey Wakey"
One down...
It's nap time!
cuddle time!
Good Morning from the Sneezys!! We woke up bright and early to the call of seagulls and one of our fellow Sneezys, Lauren, got pooped on. Today for our traveling breakfast, our chefs provided us with yogurt, granola, and a side of cuties.
Twins!!
It is MAIL DAY!!
After a quick nap, we arrived at the famous Wally World where the chicken hot bar was a popular spot. While at Walmart, members of the Miss American van took a side quest to the post office to grab the mail (Yay for mail day)! Some grabbed some cucumbers to dip in the famous Utah Salt Flats for later this afternoon. Plenty of the TWB members had their “second” lunch of PB&J, cookies and cuties. The vans of Miss America and Carolina Girl were left without napkins so there were many messy hands… (sorry bus cleaners)!!
Birthday Boy!
Who wouldn't want to celebrate with their TWB besties
our gourmet lunch for the day
Abby doing her chores!
Looks like somebody got ahold of the mic
The duet of the year!
Geared up and emptied our drinks for our 3 ½ hour drive to the salt flats. During this long drive the bus had a karaoke party consisting of Disney Songs, Bayla and Hollisters duet to a whole new world from Aladdin and the female counselors singing Baby by Justin Bieber. Then with the word upholstery, CJ sweeps the spelling bee competition. Then our own sneezy Ruby was the only one out in the first round with the word liquid 😂. The vans changed it up with a few games of family feud and karaoke. Caleb the counselor made sure that no one was asleep with loud noises during these games. Then we just vibed to music and chatted to pass the time.
Reunited at last!
mood for the salt flats!
gotta get those flics
After a quick lick of the salt flats, we had another gourmet meal of pita bread with hummus along with a side of popcorn. Our drive to our home for the evening only took an hour or so and we all rushed to get our jobs done, and shower, so we could open our mail!!
about that time!!!
hard at work
how many boxes can he hold?
a full trailer!
the bashfuls have made their delivery!
lacie teaching us about the Great Salt Lake!
one more time for the birthday boy
and a special gift from TWB
a little dancing to pass the time
they really have the moves..
While some of us were waiting for the last group of people to get a quick shower scrub in, others partook in a mini line-dancing party with Dallas and her portable speaker. Some knew the dances better than others, like Kennedy, Reece, and Finn, which was helpful for the rest of us (if you caught on, were not the most on pace bunch of people). Grumpys’ counselor Ian, Tobi, Andrew, and Bekah also got to pull out their Star Wars droid from Disney. We got quick facts about the Salt Lakes from Lacie and gave Garrett a gift to remember his TWB Birthday!!
Dal Dal in a silly mood for mail I guess
the ear plugs are a necessity
It FINALLY came to opening MAILLLL!!! Dallas had us all hold hands in a circle and dance the Macarena to earn our packages. In a chaotically organized fashion, the counselors grabbed mail, (made into a fort by the site managers, the Bashfuls), and tossed them to us as we collected packages, letters, postcards and much more. Many of us got decked out in 4th of July gear and we have candy and snacks for days on end, we probably don’t need more snacks from the gas stations… like that's gonna stop us though ;) We enjoyed sweet letters from loved ones and some of us even shed a few tears, WE LOVE & MISS YOU!!!!
