day 54

today was pretty longgggg.....

after breakfast we went to the fields to set up schtuff. it was about 150 degrees out, plus humidity. it was sooooo hot! i had sweat running down my shins. MY SHINS. yeah, that happens.

our volunteer dudes are superb though. they set up goals for us! seriously, i love des moines. well, technically it's ankeny. but really. that's like one in the same. =]

after a nice long day at the fields, laura and i showered and left for check-in. that went pretty well, as usual. then we went to panera for dinner and treated ourselves to some ice cream for dessert. yum =]

you may be wondering where our event director was for all of this? yeah, our event director is a tool. he didn't fly in until tonight. his flight was supposed to land at 940, and he made us drive a half hour each way to pick him up. then his flight was delayed because of bad weather, so he wanted us to just hang out near the airport and wait for him to land. uh, no. we came back to the hotel and hung out, then when he called to say he finally landed in des moines, we had to get out of our comfy beds to go get him. and the cherry on top of this happy sundae was that on the drive back to the hotel, he sat there and complained about HIS life! ha! he sat around in air-conditioned airports all day! what is so hard about that? oh, but he was hung over from partying the night before. whose fault is that?! the whole reason he arrived 2 days late was because of a last minute event director switch and supposedly he couldn't find a flight to des moines until tonight. we suggested flying into omaha and then renting a car and driving the 2 hours to des moines. apparently that was too inconvenient for him. so laura and i did all of the hard work (setting up) today while he partied it up with his buddy in texas for 2 days. then he has the nerve to make us pick him up at the airport at midnight? at least we made him ride in the middle seat. but we're still nowhere near being even.

he better not expect smiles when we see him in the morning.

that is all.

good night.