This weekend was so much fun! Well, besides the fact that all I could ever smell was dead turkey and could only mashed potatoes and bread... But Friday's what I'm talking about! I went to Thanksgiving Alive!! It's a community service thing with a bunch of UCC church's around the country. This year it was here in Scottsdale, Fountain Hills. My "duty" was to go to a homeless shelter and sort out clothes with 8 other epople. When we pulled up, it was SO overwhelming. I've never seen so many homeless people before in my life. I wanted to cry! We got a tour of the place and then went to work for 2 hours. We ate our lunches for half an hour, then went back to work for another 2 hours. We organized soaps, shampoos, shoes, and clothes. We finished an entire huge pile of clothes. We went back to the middle school and took showers. Then we had dinner and worship service. We then went bowling and to a dance. It was so fun!! We had our closing circle then headed back to the middle school again. We went to bed on the hard gym floor with the lights on. That was Saturday. We all woke up to a favorite camp song and backstreet boys. We had breakfast, said our goodbyes, and went to church. We had the service and then our paretns came. We had to say good bye again, which is heart wretching. But we know we'll see everyone in July for camp and later this year for the sr. high sneak trip. Many plusses, including seeing Joe. Wow, he makes my heart beat so much slower.... Well, I'll have to wait 'til July to see him again. So, my weekend was very great, even though I didn't get much sleep. Shari, I miss you!!!!