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About twenty minutes after we got in the van, we were pulling into a parking lot.

“Everyone out! Please take any trash that may be in here – this will be the last time we see this van until you are ready to go to the airport.”

We all groaned at the thought of not seeing the van again. We were going to have to spend five days without air conditioning and the radio? Yeah, when Dad signed me up I had expected to not have any air conditioning and music. But it had been really nice….

“Get your packs on, and get ready to move out! We’ve got a little hike ahead of us, and unless you want to be hiking in the dark, we’ve got to get moving.”

I said goodbye to the van and put my pack on, excited to get to our campsite. I was ready to go to sleep!

Even though it was still light out when we started, it grew dark quickly. We hadn’t even gone a quarter of a mile, and it was almost pitch black.

Katie said that we probably had a mile to our campsite, and I was already tired. It was getting harder to pick my feet up, to just keep walking.

The next half an hour or so is a blur. I managed to survive it by following the hiking boots in front of me. I don’t even know who I was following.

Some of my crew were playing a movie guessing game – I don’t remember how it worked, I just remember that I was not good at it. 😀 Probably because over half of the movies that were brought up, I had never seen. I was the first to guess the Disney movies though!

We passed over three campsites, all of them full. The first one we passed was the one we were supposed to spend the night at. I was not a happy camper. It got worse as we passed more and more campsites, all of them with people in them.

Finally, we reached an open spot that was big enough for our three tarps. Everyone heaved a sigh of relief and we began scouting out places to set up our tarps. When the girls found a spot, we started setting our tarp up immediately. We wanted to be ready to go to bed when dinner was over!

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*