Thursday, June 2, 2011

Special Olympics!

K, I've got about 10 minutes of energy left in me, but I wanted to quickly write up my crazy day. It started at 5:30 this morning when I woke up to jump in the shower. Jason woke up as I was rummaging around getting my clothes. I got him situated with a movie so that he wouldn't go roaming around the house waking people up and showered. After Jason and I were fed, I took him over to Cindy's. I was able to see the kids for a bit - Shelly is still pretty sick - and I was off to begin this next adventure.

Honestly, I can't remember what happened this morning...It is a jumble of random last minute set up details, finding out where everything was happening, and meeting the bus drivers. Melody (my cohort over transportation) and I had to figure out the bus schedules, making sure they didn't go over 10 hours - it was hard since they had all just driven 6 hours to get here. Then we had to worry about who needed to get where and when, and if we had enough time and drivers.

The biggest problems of today:
-Forgetting to send a bus to certain hotels, we had some people waiting for an hour or two
-Lost luggage, a good Samaritan turned out to be not such a good Samaritan, since the luggage actually went to a different hotel...
-One of the bus drivers didn't have a hotel reservation...he got it figured out, not too sure what went on there..
-Making one bus driver go over his 10 hours because we were bad at communication
-Getting yelled at at the end of the night because of the 30 minute wait for a bus
-Lack of cones for blocking off where the buses were parking, so we had to stand all day in the spots telling people to move
-Going far too long without food because we had to figure out the above problems

The biggest ups of today:
-Getting to know Melody really well (we spent all day with basically just the two of us at the bus drop off/pick up), we have a TON of inside jokes now
-Spending time with the Special Olympics athletes
-Having a radio and listening to the funny things that were said
-Ranking the bus drivers by likability
-Having Nilla show up with food for us!
-Being asked if we are free to come back next year to work it again (TOTALLY!!) and it's only the first day!

1 comment:

Mom said...

We tried to find you this afternoon (up by Park Discovery) but I couldn't find the soccer fields. Call tomorrow and we can bring you and Melody a treat and a cold drink (just not between 2-4 because I will also have Sophie then and I can't fit that many car seats in my car).