You've gotten up, now get outta here - everybody that is

As stated in the last posting the remainder of the day did not go extremely smooth, at least not exactly as our leadership team had planned. That is reality isn't it? Since when does everything go as planned? Anyway I went down into town to see how the shopping was going for the trip, we had to purchase all of our food and then make it all on site, so that was not an easy task. It took many people to buy the food, bring it back to base and attempt to get a decent price on all of it. Whilst I was gone we had a notice that came through stating that the road had troubles, hence the vehicles traveling had trouble as did the time table for our plan. All of a sudden we had to shift our method of getting people and material to the site, this took everyone having to prepare quickly and before we knew we were off, all of us, all of our stuff, that's a lot of people and stuff! There were some complications with the road, some local people had poured cement that day to cover some irrigation canals, you really shouldn't drive on wet cement that's not good for it. So we needed to build little bridges across, the cement was not so wide that we could not do this, with some effort of course. Once getting to those spots we meticuously placed the rocks, planks, metal strips etc... and drove 3 vehicles over 4 different crossings, meaning 12 times we built the bridges. This caused the trip to be much longer than planned and eventually the whole troup of 36 people arrived at camp around the same time, 6 hours after the first group. We were all there, and a hot meal somehow (thank you Lottie, Jo and Steve) was served to us only 8 minutes after the deadline. Not bad for the complications of the road that we had to deal with. After eating we were all quite keen to get to bed, plus when it is dark you can't really see to do much, and when it is freezing cold you don't want to do much, and when the curfew is strictly 10:00 you can't do much. The whole camp was quiet by 10:20 so that we could have an alpine start in the morning, ready to climb our various mountains. later
earl