Howdy y'all! We are the new bloggers, the GRUMPYS, coming
at you from the rolling wheat fields of
Kansas! Greetings from Kennedy Martin, Sealey Sessions, Ansley Feltz, Alex
Abernathy, Hannah Caldwell, Olivia Smith, Cameron Sheffield, Mallory Morton,
Dylan Sutton, Sam Bolling, Taylor Brooks, Caroline Whitaker and last but not
least BRANDON McCLENATHAN.
This morning we woke up later than usual, 6:00 A.M. at
Colorado College! So, in other words, we got to sleep in. Getting ready for the day was more luxurious
than usual due to the nice facilities. We finally had some bombing hot showers
last night for the first time in a while. Preparing for the day was easier than
usual, considering it was a full driving day.
After leaving Colorado College, we took a five minute drive
to Wally World. Our new cooks, the Sneezys (Sleezys), bought our traveling
breakfast and lunch for the day. This Wal-Mart was supposedly unusual,
according to counselor Matt Wilfong. The people of Kansas are a little strange sometimes. Also, the Carolina Girl van riders all pitched in to buy
a DVD player to watch movies during our
long drive.
For breakfast this morning, we had a variety of bagels with
either cream cheese, nutella or peanut butter accompanied by bananas and good ol’ water.
Todays drive was long and tedious. The bus watched two
movies, Rango and Mall Cop. Carolina Girl also watched movies, which include:
Jumanji, Sandlot and Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. Unfortunately,
Miss America did not have access to watch a movie so the majority of the trip
we played BS, listened to music, talked and slept. Kansas’ bland scenery made for a
good nap. We were even told that Kansas is flatter than a pancake by one of our research presenters.
During todays drive, we stopped four times. Three of these
were rest stops and one was for Justin C., who had to do number TWO on
the side of the road for the second time this trip!! Two of his friends, Eli P. and Cooper J. got to hold the
privacy blanket up for him. Justin tried to give Eli a high-five afterwards,
but Eli declined. The official stops
were as brief as they could be, considering the line for the girls bathroom
looked like the ticket line to a Taylor Swift concert.
Justin C.'s scenic bathroom stop
"wheat Jesus" billboard...Kansas is odd
Traveling lunch was a repeat of a popular dish first used by
the Grumpys, ranch wraps. The wraps
included turkey or ham, lettuce, cheese and lots of ranch. The cooks also served up apples and white
cheddar popcorn. Miss America sadly did
not receive any popcorn- something Mallory was very upset about.
We rolled into Kansas State University around 6pm, and we were gone by 6:15. We
were only there long enough for some informational research presentations and Cameron S. to
run and use the bathroom… again. The
information presentations were truly enlightening; Bailey, Dylan, and both
Max’s talked about KSU, Kansas and Alabama (better late than never).
Dopeys!
Grumpys!
Happys!
Sneezys!
TWB invaded Wally World for the second time today to grab
dinner, and we were treated to the sight of a random guy on a bike getting arrested
(probably for speeding lol). Many of the
participants, scared of what would be for dinner, chose to spend their money at
Subway instead of Walmart.
Tonight we had three buckets of delicious gourmet ravioli with garlic bread and a salad. The ravioli was amazing and filling, especially while it was hot. The cooks even had more than one type of salad dressing! Kudos to them J Dinner was accompanied by pink lemonade, a real thirst quencher.
After dinner, an auction was held that consisted of underwear, dirty towels, sunglasses, headlamps, tarps and anything else that the counselors found in the lost and found. Participants got the opportunity to buy the stuff that others had lost, and a chance to sell it back for a profit to the original owner. We are all broke at this point so whatever works (Mom and Dad please send money).
Auction time!
Lots of slightly used towels available for purchase
Tonight we are camping at Tuttle Creek, under the stars,
with our fellow campers and lots of bugs. We can tell we are headed back east because its getting hotter and more
humid. Tonight is gonna be an “on top of
the sleeping bag” night for sure.
We concluded tonight with a short sing-a-long, trying not to
disturb our neighbors by singing Greenday too loudly. We think they should be
grateful that they get to be sung to sleep by TWB (We’re going on tour after we
get back).
We are concluding this post with a Brandonion wisdom: “ The average
person will eat 8 spiders each year while sleeping, so make sure that you keep
your mouth shut tonight.” (We think this number is higher if you live in Kansas
or go on TWB).
Rodger Dodger, Grumpys are over and out.
