deployment delayed.. more time in Denver...

Our deployment to Houston for our first spike got postponed because some suit didn't sign some ppw... but oh well, makin the most out of some more time in Denver... Here's whats been goin on (as briefly as possible)...

11/11 - Day off for Veterans Day.. Panera with Erin, Sierra, Cait, Joel, and Erica. Beautiful day, ate outside, walked back. Then at night had a hairbrush karaoke sing-along to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack in Mary's room.. me, katie, alicia, mary, and steph were breakin it down.. amazing...

11/12 - Had our project briefing, where we presented our project to some of the higher-ups in the office. Went really well, except that this is when they decided to tell us we aren't leaving on Saturday. Kind of a bummer, but we'll make it work... Then had our community meeting, where we got to do a less formal presentation of our project to the rest of the corps (and dateline)... and by less formal I mean we wrote an obnoxious country western song and sang and danced on stage in our "sexy raingear" as we called it in the song!!! Then went to the most amazing hole-in-the-wall hispanic ice cream place??? They had really random flavors like avacado, cheese?? I got Fresa con Crema (Strawberry w/ creme) and it was SO GOOD!! plus it was only $1! :-)

11/13 - Officially inducted into the NCCC, took our class 16 Corps picture... then spent the rest of the day hanging out with our friends that were deploying the next day. Had an awesome night tho, perfectly in-sync with the essence of our unit! lol About 3/4 of our unit has a giant sing-along in our hallway, until we were keeping people from sleeping. At which point, we retreated to the basement, continued our sing-along, and added dancing & hitting around a volleyball. I THINK all the light still work... and there were no fatal injuries, but it did get pretty intense! This happened over a span of about 4 glorious hours, and was filled with the awesomeness of Taylor Swift, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Chubawumba, Missy Elliot, TLC, and our new hall favorite "Wagon Wheel" I LOVE FIRE UNIT!!!

11/14 - So, everyone else left at 8am this morning. Got up to send them off, which was harder than I thought. Its crazy the connections you make with people in such a short time here. The dorms are oddly quiet and empty, especially after a night like last night, one of the many crazy hallway gatherings our hall is know for. Had a good day with our team tho, made FIRE UNIT t-shirts in the hall this morning, made one for our team leader, Jourdan too. She seemed to really like it. I must say our shirts are pretty bad-ass! Thanks Ashley and Megan for the idea!! Did some team-building, shared our lifelines. Really interesting to hear other people's stories, learn where my teammates are coming from. Didn't get to do all of them, so looking forward to hearing more on Monday. When all that was said and done, our team (minus 2) went out to this Thai place called Spicy Basil... th food was SO good, then again everything is compared to the cafeteria... but no, really, it was yummy! Then tried to head to the Tilted Kilt for drinks, but got really turned around and ended up driving in the snow for like an hour and a half (thank you Google Maps for iPhone). It worked out tho, cuz the roads started getting bad and we were able to make the decision to go straight home, rather than being at the bar and being oblivious to the road conditions outside. I must say tho, that given Victoria's lack of experience driving in snow.. she did AMAZING!! we all got home safe, and she was hella calm about it, moreso than a lot of ppl who have driven in th snow a lot! i was impressed! Thanks Victoria, you rock!!

Supposed to leave on Tuesday/Wednesday for Texas now, we'll see. Can't wait to go! I'm SO excited and just ready to get out there and start working...