The Zipline

Ya, I did it I got up to the top of the pole and I went down the zipline that they have here. So here is a picture that one of the other guys there took of me comming down.

Western Night

Now the fun begins...every Tuesday night we have what we call our Western Night, when we are allowed to get out of our work cloths and put on something a little more normal, that is if you sport the cowboy look.  Those nights we have everything from dinner out on the lawn, being buffalo BBQ and watermelon, to games and roping lessons.  And then we end the night with a western dance.  Now the other night was not the real thing it was, for lack of better words, a dress rehearsal of sorts, and really I think that we only call it that because it is only staff here right now and it was only staff participating in all of the nights activities.

I had a lot of fun with it, the food was great, and it was really nice to sit outside and enjoy a meal in the cool evening air, and it also was nice not having to put on my uniform for once to eat a meal.  Now I didn't have the chance to go out and play any of the games because I got to talking with some other people and well we just didn't get out there soon enough to try them out, but the dance was a good one.  A nice touch to the night was that they spent the time to teach us some line dances, like the electric slide, the roper, the chicken dance (not the one that everyone knows,) and they also taught us the two step.  For me I think that it is going to take me all summer to get some of them down to a point that I feel that I can do them, but I think that is the case with just about every one that was there.

Like I said things are starting to warm up and get going, we have re opened the dining hall here at PTC, training is finishing up, or at least I hope that it is, really there is only so much of it that a person can handle before they crack and really the best way to put it is just like cabin fever, all you want to do is to go out and get to work not sit in a room the whole day learning how to do the work, but everything is needed in some way for everyone how else would things get done as smoothly as what I have seen without it.

I would, though, have to say that one of the best things of coming out here would be the friends that I have made and how much of a help they have been to me to help me catch on to things and get me going.  And really around them there is never a dull moment everyday ends up being new and exciting to the point that I go to bed happy and tired even if it is only 9 at night.  Well I am going to get going but here are some pictures from the BBQ and the dance, enjoy!