WE'RE BACK!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!! It was a trip in all sense of the word! Drive up was fun. We made Paul drive the new ERV..emergency response vehicle for those of you who don't know.. by himself..so we could discuss girl things we told him. Hillary made us play car games as she looked for moose on the side of the road. All bubbles were burst though as we drove into the Northern Lights Motel..or BAtes motel as Lynn and Hillary started calling it. They have this new policy about not smoking there..anymore..you have to sign a piece of paper that says you will not smoke in the room or you will pay $250.oo. Lynn being our only smoker asked where she could smoke ..its a motel..could she smoke outside her room? NO. She had to use ..get this the "smoking shack"! In the center across the drive was a little "shack" like those ones people build for kids waiting for the bus..and she had to stand in it to smoke. There was nothing in it..so we put in one of those metal chairs they have outside the rooms so she would sit down and smoke..then we thought about putting some of the plants in it or a bird house or something. ONe morning the chair was wet so she had to bring out a towel to sit on. It was hysterical.
Hillary was still not amused that there were no outlets in the bathroom and no hair dryers, or irons in the rooms, she even called the place t he night before and they said they did not supply personal care items..she told them an iron was not a personal care item! She actually spotted a coffee maker among the dog food and pet items in the office but we warned her it probably had not been used..she is such an addict she went for some the first morning..baad! Her Mother called and asked how her little "potato blossom was doing and Hillary said "get me out of here..come get me..a la Paris Hilton..! She tried to spot eligible county men..we won't go there either!
The classes were not too bad except we had two volunteers who actually drove up from another chapter to take classes and they were impossible!! Even the Aroostook county people wanted to
"shoot" them before it was all over..fortunately they left on Saturday night and Sunday was a little more peaceful.
Paul our token male was quite amused with all the girls..I think he got a kick out of spending time with us. Hillary "miss sunshine" had him laughing, she got carded one night and we all had to put up with that scene. Lynn of course, was our "don't mess with us" girl! You gotta have one of those when you travel!! My voice didn't get any better thru the weekend, Paul gave me a bag of throat drops on Sunday to make it thru my health class before he left. He definitely was impressed with what we had done to pull this off and really helped out where ever he could.
We were pretty fried by Saturday night after a hosting a "shelter simulation" a table top disaster situation that was pretty dicey at times..and Hill , Lynn and I decided we needed to go home on Sunday after the last class! Enough was enough. So we told Ginny how we could do it and she went along with the plan which put everyone back in their own house last night, to get some much needed rest..you don't get in the Bates motel! Hillary got back to civilization..she tried to find "her people" at the Aroostook Mall..the weren't there! I just got home to my couch and a place that didn't smell like air freshner..I could not move for 2 hours.
So happy to be home with my chickies and my hubbie and the coast!
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