What a week!

This week I learned that I CAN actually step backwards off of a 51 foot tower if I have too.  I might cry like a little baby but in the end, I will take that step back and then (maybe not gracefully) walk all the way down the tower.  And then go back up and do it again only this time off of the side with out a wall.  Yep, jump off into the abyss.  And rappell down 51 feet.  I still can't believe I did that.  Well, I have the bruises to prove it, and a plaque with a picture but still, I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID THAT.

I also learned that I can survive in 98 degree heat and 80% humidity while fully dressed in army uniform and preform some grueling tasks (like building a rope bridge over a stream and then helping 13 other people across it before disassembling it...in 12 minutes) and not melt...ok almost not melt.  It was close.  I was thankful I had to swim across the stream.  Again, cataloging the bruises.  These are just two of the tasks I did this week at the "conference" I attended.  It was super cool but not super "cool".  Holy cow Louisville is HOT!!

Lastly I have learned that I can stay the night in Chicago with only the clothes on my back and have a fantastic time and not worry that my hair is a disaster.  Getting bumped off our flight was not a totally terrible thing.  Chicago is amazing!!

I am really ready to go home though and do all the homework I did not do while I was in Louisville..I have about 12 hours. 

Yikes.