This is Madness!

I'm going to stick with the brief summary, highlights layout throughout Command. It works pretty well haha.

Woke up at 5:30am. Felt absolutely horrible. Might be coming down with a cold too, which is saddening. Checked in all of the trip groups (asked tons of questions and took valuables boxes) except I was so tired I kept stumbling over my words. Finished check-in, moved valuables boxes to Forbes (new lobby is pretty nice, though weirdly modern). Headed over to the office and spent the next 5 hours frantically answering phone calls and making logs, and calling vans and groups to confirm arrival at dropoff points.

But honestly, this is a *ton* of fun. This is what I signed up for. And Elan's honestly super awesome. He's hilarious and just super awesome to work with. =]

Highlights of today:
~ A girl storing a fishing pole and Ziploc bags in valuables boxes

~ Aoi fighting to get all the phone calls

~ Accidentally calling 911 because a support van gave a bogus cell number starting with a 1 (you have to dial 9-1 before a non-609 number)

~ Elan prank calling Aoi with a group trip called "Indoor Farming"

~ A trip losing their bear-bagging rope in a tree. How do you even *do* that?

~ And a trip requesting a support drop for soy sauce

Me: "Does everyone have three full Nalgenes?"
Leader: "Some only have two..."
Me: "Can you go get more from gear distribution so that everyone has three?"
Leader: "They don't want to carry three..."

[As told by Kathryn] Elan (half talking to himself): "I'll just eat mine [my lime] even if they dissolve your teeth..."

Kevin (overheard on phone conversation about a camping stove): "Well, sometimes when you put Humpty Dumpty back together again, he's not quite the same..."