We went to our first Ma and Pa Trek meeting, it was great. Now I am excited and nervous! I will write more about it later, but I think I may create a separate Trek blog -- so I can document everything from beginning to end. We find out who our new children are this Wednesday at family sorting night! We have to be dressed in our pioneer clothes and everything! Can't wait! Right now I have about as much fear and excitement inside of me as I felt before giving birth! I hope I can keep my new children alive and I hope they like me!
The base-camp location up near Ontario, Oregon
We will be tent-camping (thank goodness!). They were considering going tent-less! No way!
We will travel to and from our base-camp each day
Here is the kind of terrain we will be crossing . . . notice the shade. It will likely be 100 degrees. 11 miles a day. It will be mostly uphill. Pulling handcarts. Through the rocks. Sounds fun, eh? Reality is sinking in . . . I am going to burn. Hopefully, if all goes well -- I will not die.
The youth I have talked to are scared. They should be...
From Mom
ReplyDeleteThe New Brunswick stake has been invited to participate in a "Trek" in Bangor Maine. If they do it, we will probably be involved in some way. Wouldn't that be great?
That would be awesome mama! We have these white buckets that we put all our stuff in, and we get to decorate them. One lady drew herself pulling the handcart, carrying her husband over her shoulder (who had been shot in the bum with arrows), there was a buffalo in the wagon she had killed herself, and her baby was riding on top of the buffalo . . . I imagine you would be something like that lady on a trek. ;-)
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!! I really hate to admit it ( spoken while crawling out from under the tables in the "office"... I was plugging all the electronic stuff in) but I probably wouldn't have the baby with me this time.
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