gunna be a big kid now!

(The yachts we drive, YIKES!)

Alright I'm kinda excited because I have finally figured out some of the big kids things I should have known by now, at least about cars... At the BOEC we drive MONDO 15 passenger vans that have the turning radius of a yacht (I'm not kidding this thing is ridiculous). Today Jamie taught us how to do all of our car stuff. We cranked the spare tire out form under the van, jacked it up and took of the "flat" tire. Each van has about 2-3 people working on it at once. When we started out our day it was gorgeous out, sunny and beautiful but over the course of the morning the snow clouds arrived which is great news...except when all I have on is jeans and a light fleece jacket. As Becca (another intern) and I started taking off bolts and switching the tires it started dumping down snow. I was freezing old, both Becca and I couldn't feel our hands as we tried to turn the bolts on without cracking off our frozen fingers. After realizing we put the tire on backwards, the bolts tightened wrong and the car jacket back down to the ground we finally got it together and working. SUCCESS FINALLY!! The group took our hour long lunch to skuttle back to our cabin down the road and have a feeding frenzy as well as thaw out. By the time we came back outside and I had put on 5 more layers it was sunny again, wonderful now I look like the Michelin Man and I'm sweating bullets. After a few more instructions the group headed down the hill to town to practice parking, driving, backing up...all the usual stuff you do. As we guided each other into parking spots my turn was coming up. I literally felt like I was going to pee my pants I was so nervous. I really hadn't expected to be so nervous. I have had no problems driving La Fonda but then again that's California not "Breckenfridge" where the roads are steep, the chains are massive, the ice covers ever square foot of road and your driving a friggin yacht. Note to self: you signed up for this...now did you think it all through?? Anyhoo I managed to park the beast and back it up and parallel park so I am officially a big kid now. I even checked out, windshield wiper fluid, put on chains, locked in a wheelchair in the ADA van and made it up the big ole hill to work. AWESOME DAY =) Tomorrow I give my presentation on MS, I'm the first intern to present so fingers crossed this goes well! Off to make dinner and catch up on my skyping!

xoxo

-L