trek 2014 - Day 1 &2

Sorry I'm late. I got caught up with the holidays (again.) From June 15-19 I was on a pioneer trek to have a small taste of what my ancestors went through. While on it I recorded it in my journal. This is what I wrote in it.

Day 1
I arrived at the stake centre after a long drive. I had initial doubts about my well being but I was sure I could make it. We organized in to groups, had a dinner of beef, salad and buns, walked a bit then after that, camped for the night. The worst part about the day was my group taking forever to start a fire, and you can say I was burnt up about it.

Day 2
I was supposed to awake to the sound of a cannon, but I managed to sleep through it. After enduring the damp cold, I was greeted by the smell of pancakes and sausages, we ate breakfast and headed off. before we entered the woods we came across someone's home and a family standing on the balcony, but the people weren't cheering us on, they were NAYSAYERS! They also shot fireworks at us, and to make things worse, we stopped in the middle of it when some other families halted their progress. That was the least of our problems. When we reached the edge of the woods we were told to beware of stinging nettle (thank goodness we weren't in New Zealand [go look it up]) in the foliage (as if the persecutor's rhetoric didn't sting enough. Not only that, we encountered dozens of roots and stones that hindered our movement, and then to make it harder, the sun escaped the cloud cover, which made the heat hard to endure, and don't get me started on the mosquitoes. And to make it worse the ground was land mined with cow pies. We had lunch eventually but it did little to help. I desperately wanted to cool off and I got the chance but not the way I had in mind. On the trail we had to wade through a marsh of mud and water. many people got soaked up to their waist. ButI played it safe by doing some 'island hopping' on chunks of ground on a part of the bog. We reached the campsite, had a broth made from beef (which didn't taste good for me) and settled down. Thank goodness that we got over with  the day with the most walking.