Knoxville - Habitat

 Day 3 - Monday May 28

On Monday we went to the Habitat for Humanity office for our first day of volunteer work. We met Julie, a volunteer at Habitat who works with Americorps. We became friends with her almost instantly. We went with Julie to a house that Habitat had built previously but it was draining into a neighbor's yard. We pulled weeds out of the natural drain at the bottom of the hill where the rocks are. We also set down sod on part of the lawn that had died. Julie shared a lot about her life with us and we solidified our friendship. We finished up with the weed pulling around noon and ate lunch. Since Mondays are a day off for the construction workers, we were finished for the day. Julie recommended we visit a waterfall at Cade's Cove, which is part of the Smoky Mountains National Park. We hiked about 5 miles round trip to see Abram's Falls, which was beautiful. It was in a secluded area a few stories high. We even climbed up to the top of the waterfall, and we took a lot of pictures. Cade's Cove is a loop, so we finished going through the loop. Then we stopped at Texas Roadhouse for dinner, as we were exhausted and hungry from our hike. When we got back to our house we reflected on our day and the service we did and then went to bed, resting up for our next day of hard work at Habitat.