Friday, July 17, 2009

A Giant Leep into a Pioneer Trek

So much happened on trek that I could not possibly ever tell you everything. So I'm just gonna give a day by day description. OK?
Now lets start...
Wednesday~ Everyone met up in some place on a really hot and sunny hill to eat lunch and find out who our trek families were gonna be. I was put into the best family EVER!!!!!!! My ma was Tonya (Tony) and my pa was Lee Young. I had 4 brothers- Mike, Jared, Anthony and Cameron. Each one of them were super fun to be with, they were all always happy and they were very very very strong. I had 4 sisters- Adrianna, Emily, Chelsey and Amanda. Who were equally fun to hang with and equally very strong. The fist day we had to hike 13.2 miles. Or at least my company (Yellow- Kimball) did. There were two other companies Green/Blue Grant and the Red Huntington, they accidentally took the wrong road and had to travel a few extra miles. By the end of the day, we were all very tired and very worn out. I don't think that a stale roll and hot chicken broth has ever tasted so good in my life.
Thursday~ We woke up and ate a nasty oatmeal. (but of coarse i have never liked any cereal, so to eat oatmeal for breakfast was horrible.) Then two boys from every family were chosen to be apart of the Mormon Battalion. Our two younger brothers, Anthony and Cameron chose to go. I didnt really realize how strong they were until they were gone. That same day we did what was called a Women's pull. Where just the girls would pull the handcart, up 2 hills. Occasionally our ma's would help and sometimes some random lady who you don't know would come help push the cart and then dissapre. I don't know how, but for some reason this pull didn't seem any harden then when the whole family was there. (That day we hiked 6 miles) That afternoon we made it to a big open grassy field... The Salt Lake Valley. When we got there we ate oranges- which tasted sooooooo good. Then we played pioneer games, ate scones, drake pink lemonade and washed our hair. Or at least some people did, i didn't want to, because my hair doesn't braid. Then that night we had a hoedown.
Friday/Trek Sabbath~ This was the day that we got to put on a fresh new pair of cloths. It felt soooooooooo incredibly good!!! We went down to the stage for a little while, then we split off into company R.S and Priesthood. After that we had age group classes. Then we went to family council time. Next we went out into the woods, by our selves, for solo time. It was 3 hours where we got to read letters written to us by our families and write in our journals or read a church magazine or the sciptures. But Solo time was soon re-named as "Bug War." We made dinner as a family and then went back down to the stage for a testimony meeting.
Saturday~ This day we only had to hike 3 miles out and it was mostly easy we were told. But this day was the hardest out of all of the days for me. I had some really bad blisters on both of my feet that had popped. I could hardly walk on them, my stomach hurt I had a headache and I had a 102/103 temp. I was told i was not allowed to help push the cart. And then after 20 minutes of hiking behind my family, my ma and the Trek nurse felt like it was not good for me to be out in the heat hiking. So they made me ride in the first aid car the rest of the way down. Telling my family good-bye was the hardest thing ever. I couldn't stop crying, which was probably really bad considering i was also really dehydrated. But we all made it down the mountain safe and happy, so all was good.
Now most people would say that pushing a 500 pound cart for 22.2 miles up and down really steep and extremely rocky hills in a pioneer dress on very little food, drinking water out of a dusty cup in the heat for 4 days... well they wouldn't really say that's alot of fun... But to me, i think it was the best experience of my life. And i hope to go back many more times.

1 comment:

Home of the Muddy Kids said...

It sounds like you had a really wonderful time! What a fabulous experience. I am so sorry you got sick at the end though! I still remember my trek-type experience, with the solo time and everything. It really is a life changing event, isn't it? I hope you have fun at camp this week!