What an interesting first full day here in Gallup, New Mexico. In fact, it was probably basically insanity. We woke up late, finally, after getting up before 5 am for the past few days. It was nice to sleep in an actual bed with actual sheets. Basically, everyone slept like rocks. Which is good, because we're pretty much surrounded by rocks. Lovely, beautiful rocks.
Anyway, after we ate breakfast of bagels that were overly toasted because the toaster decided to not automatically pop up, we headed to the grocery store! Yay! Apparently we needed a lot of food. Like, four carts worth of food. I'm pretty sure people thought we were insane. Especially when we bought tons and tons of rutabagas. And also pickles. I don't even like either of those things. Maybe. Maybe I like them. I don't think I've tried rutabagas. It will be an interesting experience.
When we went to finally buy our groceries, the total was only about $800. That's not very much food, is it? I think the cashiers were drawing straws in secret to see who would have to scan all our food. To their credit, they were pretty quick about it.
We barely fit all our groceries in our two cars. Yes. Two cars. Because we're crazy. Crazy people.
Unloading wasn't nearly as fun. But we managed. Because teamwork. We also know how to cook, apparently! That's something I wasn't aware of! Cooking skills.
After lunch, we headed out for a hike. Basically what we learned on this hike was that there are dogs. And you are not allowed to pet the dogs. Or look at the dogs. Or even think about the dogs. "The dogs are there, but you can't let them know that you know that they're there," as Olivia so nicely summed up our professor's warning.
Except when we did see a dog, people were like, "Oh, it's so cute! Oh!" and then they took pictures of it. I'm pretty sure that was not what we were told to do. But oh well. No one died or lost a limb.
On a topic change, our kitchen really doesn't have very much stuff in it by way of utensils. We had a baby fork, two knives and one salad tong when we arrived. That means we had to pilfer things from the other kitchen. I hope no one wants the strainer, silverware, bowls and cutting board we stole...
Then! Then comes the most exciting part of the day! We watched New Moon! Oh. No. Wait. That wasn't the most exciting. Although it was pretty amusing. I'm not going to tell you about it. But.
After that, then was the most exciting part. We went hiking up a mountain in the dark to see the stars, but it turned out it was cloudy, but we went anyway, because we're basically adults and we can do whatever we want, including jumping over barbed wire fences, even though barbed wire probably means "KEEP OUT", but again, we're adults, and adults break laws.
Plus, they wouldn't have put a ladder through the barbed wire fence if they didn't want people sneaking up there at night. Or day. Either way. Then we kind of just stood there for a while talking and laughing and having a grand old time, if those are things people have any more.
And tomorrow we start on with our actual work! No more time for fun. We have to go get background checks and finger printed and all that stuff. So.... Maybe we'll hike more. That was fun. Yay rocks and barbed wire! And dogs! Yay New Mexico!
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