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I nodded my head and passed my bowl.

“You really want thirds? Ok then…”

My bowl came back around and I asked for the garlic and herbs again. Most of the crew was looking at me in surprise as I kept eating. I was on my third bowl – this was almost more food than I normally ate in a whole day!

Bobby looked in the pot again, scraping together what was left.

“Ok, there’s a tiny bit left. Does anyone want anymore? This was really good, and I don’t want it to go to waste.”

I finished my third bowl and considered it for a moment.

“I’ll have some more.”

Bobby looked at me like I had two heads.

“Brett, are you ok? You haven’t eaten this much the whole trip! You’re not going to overeat, are you? Are you sure you’re ok?”

I laughed as I passed my bowl.

“This is what I normally eat like. These past two weeks have been really weird for me.”

I finished that fourth bowl and knew I was done. That had been really good, and now I was ready for bed. We hung around the kitchen for a while with the clean up crew, but eventually we started wandering back to camp.

As soon as I had taken my boots off I crawled into my sleeping bag, exhausted. It had been a good day.

I had been ready to go when Katie came to get me, which was a good thing. And I had eventually come up with enough things for everyone during our “give and take”. Breakfast hadn’t been bad, even though we had to eat it in the rain. Lightning Drill was pretty awful, and so was hiking in the ducky suit. All the creeks we had to cross were pretty bad, but dinner had been amazing!

As always, the good outweighed the bad. I was getting towards the end of my trip and I was upset about that. I didn’t want to leave my friends. We only had two and a half days left with each other, and it wasn’t going to be enough.

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