day 19

got up and watched the u.s. tie slovakia. they should've won though!!!!!! ugh! don't even get me started....

after that laura and i had to go to the home office and drop off some t-shirts/pick up some magnet decals for our truck. the only problem being that the magnets didn't cling to our truck. at all. it was actually kind of funny watching rich (our boss) jump up to put the magnet on, only to have it fall down again. especially the first time, because he took a running start ;] hahaha and these aren't little fridge magnets - they're about 4 feet long and 3 feet wide. so that only added to the madness.

from there we went to the fields to finish setting up for tomorrow. we had to lay out our massive inflatables and tent frames and tables and unload five tons of juicy juice.....etc. only it wasn't as bad as last time because we had golf carts =) those were fun. we went off-roading, cutting cookies in the gravel parking lots and speeding through huge muddy puddles. even our event directors were doing it! lots o' fun. my favorite part was watching chris and sean load the back of their cart up with goals, then try to race me around the parking lot, only to have the goals fly off the back of their cart. ha! idiots....

after we were done at the fields, everyone left and i stuck around to run while laura went to bike at the hotel. then she picked me up, i showered, and we went to check-in at sport's authority.

check-in was great. wanna know why?! because event director hilary took 4 extra-strength aleve. you're only supposed to take 1 every 8-12 hours, and no more than 3 in a 24 hour period. yeah, she took FOUR in a matter of 20 minutes. let's just say she was a little loopy after that. when everyone was like "why on earth did you take FOUR of them?!" her response was "i took 4 before the half marathon and i was fine!" at which point someone said "yeah, because you probably didn't even remember anything after that!"

we were just cracking up the rest of the night. i thought laura was going to pee her pants when she was pretending to hold hands with a mannequin in the section by our check-in tables, which resulted in her breaking it's arm off. i took the arm and put it up my sleeve, which made all of us laugh even harder. then, to top it all off, one of the sport's authority workers walked by and, seeing the mannequin's arm in place of my own, said "oh, do you need a hand?" HAHAHA

when we left sport's authority, we went to dinner at macaroni grill. when rachel (another person on kick-it staff) spilled her water, high-as-a-kite-hilary was on the phone and she started freaking out to the person she was talking to, saying "oh my gosh! rachel just spilled her water." {the person on the other end said something} "no, everyone's staring... we're at a macaroni grill, not like a chile's or something!" haha after that, our waiter brought rachel out a new water, this time in a kiddie cup with a lid. haha what a clever guy.

so anywhoo.....today was pretty fun. i'm a little sunburnt though. :(

and it's bedtime! gute nacht!