Day 3!

Today we had another fun day on the site. As always we all jumped out of bed bright and early, and made it to the site not just on time but early! Arriving early on the site gave us some time to do a little stunt practicing, but that's a story for another time. Most of the real work today was split between the roofing process and putting up siding on two of the houses. Great strides were made on both houses by the end of the day. While talking with one of the regular Habitat employees, I got a pretty good idea of how things are run on a regular basis with the different sites. The employee, Marcy, told me that most houses take about six months to complete but that is only because they are working in so many different areas at one time, in terms of days worked on one house it would actually only take about two months to complete the house, but jumping from site to site slows down the process. It was very interesting talking with her while we worked, she also said she was very pleased with how hard our group was working and said it must be partially due to the fact that we are athletes (I would have to agree). After work we returned to the church to shower and clean up for dinner. We then followed Pastor K and his wife to the Oyster House restaurant out by the bay. The restaurant was located very close to the water and we had a great view from our table inside. The restaurant was packed, but we enjoyed the time we spent there and the food was delicious! It was pretty entertaining watching some of the guys cut and pry open their food, TJ even was given what appeared to be fisker's scissors to sear into his dinner! We even had a little visitor at dinner, one of the girls spotted a teeny tiny lizard by the window during dinner and Eric decided he should run outside and capture it. Shockingly he was successful, he brought "Biggie," the one inch long lizard, home with us to the church in a condiment cup and then released him back into the wild. Overall dinner at The Oyster House was a great experience! To finish off the night we headed back to the church and did a little exploring outside. Behind the church is pond/lake and an awesome run down house that is set for demolition. We took a little walk and checked out the area, played a few jokes, and scared a few of the girls. It was a great time. After such a long day, everyone pretty much crashed with the exception of a few late night euchre games that we had going on. After our third full day of work it is crazy to think of how fast our time here has gone. Tomorrow will be our last day on the site before we head back to Naperville (if only we could bring this great weather with us!). Hope everyone has a wonderful friday, i'm sure we will too!

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