Day 4- Carlsbad Caverns

           Day 4: Carlsbad Caverns

DO-PEYS! DO-PEYS! DO-PEYS

Hello everyone!! We're thrilled to be here and share our adventures, your hosts are Bryant, Liz, Grace, Olivia, Lily, Hollister, Reece, Scotty, Andrew, Addison, Rylei, Bayla, Davis, Hannah, and Aiden.

We woke up in the Great State of Texas under the stars for the first time outside. We got to wake up 15 minutes later than yesterday at the ripe time of 5:15, how lucky are we?!

First thing this morning we drove to the gas station where we couldn't buy anything. Only being allowed to pee or glitter NO SNACKS (aka glitter fuel). 

Today the Grumpy's served breakfast… we had to let the Happy's go. We enjoyed delicious bagels with swagalicous cream cheese and jelly options. 

Caleb shared his life stories and campers shared glitter stories. Glitter dust was all over the bus. Asher went on a killing spree…. Don't worry it was only bugs!

We drove through the great state of Texas, and landed in New Mexico. We hope to see Aliens in the UFO territory. 

Happy's

Sleepy's

Dopey's

Bashful's

Sneezy's

Grumpy's

Group Photo Time!

We had many amazingly fantastical presentations from Grace, Liz, Parker, Bridget, and Brooke doing their respective presentations about Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, the New Mexico Military Institute, and aliens. We took multiple fantastic group photos at the Carlsbad Caverns, the different dwarf groups also took photos inside the caverns

We had chicken sliders for lunch included with chips as a side, but a lot of campers opted to get lunch for the gas station which a buyable point of access that Dallas offered to us!

Say Cheese Zack!

We walked 1.5 miles deep into the cavern just to glitter 900 feet below the Earth. Post cards were a huge hit or everyone, along with stickers, ice cream sandwiches, and even golf balls! Asher shared his cactus candy, it tasted like wax…… Thanks anyways!!

Taco Papas (Greensboro reference)

Tonight was TACO NIGHT!!!!!! They did amazing, we'll see how the next 3 days go!

We set up for camp at the New Mexico Military Institute out on the field. We had a great talk from the colonel and got access to their super nice showers and bathrooms to let out glitter.

We had a good amount of free time to hangout and settle down in our campsite. After dinner, we had a little singalong and we sang Iris, Wonderwall, Wagon Wheel, and of course, it ended on Today.

While we were settling down, the campus sprinklers unexpectedly went off on half of our stuff. RJ, Asher, Liz, Dexter, and Hannah were in the sprinklers and their stuff got soaked. We relocated them and we all eventually were able to settle back down, until... the New Mexico winds came howling in. The wind kept us cool but some of us had our personal items blown away. Hopefully we can find it in the lost and found.

Tomorrow we will be on our way to the Grand Canyon, see you all later! - The Dope Dopes

Day 3- San Antonio

Day 3: San Antonio, the River Walk and the Alamo

Welcome to the Last Bashful blog— we know, you're just as sad as we are, we know you'll miss us :( but be out on the look out for our friends, the Grumpys, taking over tomorrow! Today included lots of driving, going to the largest Buc-ees that exists, and seeing San Antonio with it's river walk and the Alamo!

Today we woke up at 5:00 A.M at the "Taj Mahal", aka the Fontainebleau Park in Louisiana and left our site at 5:45 A.M.

Morning at the Gas Station

This morning we had pop-tarts, grain bars, and juice boxes for breakfast and we got to see a very vivid double rainbow as well!

Shopping at Buc-ees

At Buc-ees we all explored and got items like T-shirts that said “Don’t mess with Texas”, the boys bought beaver onesies, the girls got anklets, and LOTS of Buc-ees specialized food and snacks.

Exploring the Alamo

We stopped in San Antonio and saw the Alamo, the river walk, and explored the city around the riverwalk and the Alamo. The Alamo is a  historical building where a battle of the American Mexican war was, and the Riverwalk was an American Venice, and we were able to escape the heat down there. It was like a completely different world compared to the one up top.

Lots of naps and laughs

On the vans/bus we had a ton of deep conversations to get to know everyone, we listened to a lot of music, made a lot of friendship bracelets, and had interviews about our lives from a 3000 question book. We also shared our relationship status. Also, lots of sleeping photos is a must!

Research Presentations

Lily, Kennedy, Jake, presented and Maddie also did a Beyonce inspired rap.

Exploring San Antonio
The first big stop was at Buc-ees where we spent time looking through apparel and the food, and secondly in San Antonio at the Alamo and the Riverwalk giving us time to get ice cream and shop around. In the beginning of the Riverwalk the counselors tricked us into taking our shoes off saying there was endangered wildlife! We also walked around stopping to get ice cream, gelato, coffee, gifts, t-shirts, and some lemonade to cool down.

We took a large group photo in front of the Alamo, but always numerous ones at Buc-ees.

For lunch the cooks made everyone Turkey and Ham sandwiches with snacks. But most of us ate at Buc-ees.

For dinner we got pizza rolls made of tortillas, marinara, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni with popcorn on the side.

                                                                  Lots of Fun at Our Campsite

Today we drove through Louisiana and half of Texas stopping at Kerrville. We set up camp at Kerriville-Scheriner park, a large open grassy area where we are all camping together.

We are so SAD! This is the last blog from the Bashfuls, we are headed to the being dishwashers, yes, we are going to wash dishes! It's been real, see you guys through the pictures!