It all started one cloudy Saturday morning. Our group, minus one member (get well soon, Emily), met at the Virginia Avenue parking garage to begin our journey. We knew that it would be an interesting trip when one of our group members had to stop to use the bathroom twice before we even left campus. Our group is: Alan Kellar: Husband, Jordan Duft: Wife #1, Bridget Harvey: Wife #2, Casey Peetz: Wife #3, Rachel Higgins: Wife #4, Kayla Flamm: Wife #5, Stephanie Wood: Wife #6, and Karlee Trankler: Wife #7.
A mere three hours later, our group arrived at the beautiful Duft family home in Highland, Illinois dodging suicidal Plovers on the way in (not raptors).
We walked in the door and our eyes alighted on a wonderful cornacopia of lunch food - reminiscent of Martha Stewart (sans the chow chow) - which the kind and generous Mr. and Mrs. Duft had prepared for us.
After eating, we grabbed several duck decoys (let it be known that these were ducks and NOT raptors -- they had no talons, i.e. they are not birds of prey) and took a wonderful photoshoot. Truman sat in a canoe and a deer stand. Mr. Duft informed us that if we drove on his lawn, there would be severe repurcussions.
We hopped back on I-70 -- headed east, into the sunset *uhh inside joke!!! LOLOLOL*, pulling off to the side of the highway at every state line and THE GIANT CROSS!! A nice reminder of the resurrection. *-reminder: this is a secular trip* Things were going so smoothly until HORROR STRUCK at the Ohio state line. A gigundous car wreck had occurred. The next 4 hours consisted of moving at 0 miles per hour surrounded by semi trucks watching Friends and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Things can't ever get worse. BUT THEN WE saw the fiery ginger we all known as WENDYS. That was delicious. We finally found salvation (no pun intended) at TLB (The Lord's Business) at Athletes in Action in Xenia, Ohio at 12:30 AM. **reminder: this is STILL a secular trip OR IS IT** We were asleep within minutes and got to sleep in the next day.
GOOD MORNING!! Sunday, March 27th, 2011.
In true college student fashion, we slept until almost noon eastern, 11 central. At exactly noon, we rolled up in style IN OUR TOWN AND COUNTRY AND 200, to 4 Paws for Ability. We walked into the door and were a little surprised. Tens of dogs and 3 siamese mix cats surrounded us with smiling faces. We did not expect all of the dogs in individual crates, but then were told that they were fundraising for a whole new facility. Alicia, the operations coordinator, filled us with the warmth of Little Caesar as we learned the ropes of changing these dogs lives. She told us about the exptensive training these service dogs go through and how they are worth $22,000 a piece! Their dogs are sent all over the world. Not only are they seeing eye dogs, helpers for people with autism, but also seizure alert dogs and tracking dogs. They breed their own dogs. There were two adorable litters of puppies. One of german shephards and the other of golden retrievers. We were split into quartets of humans. Half began to clean up after the canines. The other half went to Walmart to socialize their pups. Jordan had Prosper. We then swapped quartets. Y (the socialization director) taught us how to handle the canines.
The day continued at an eclectic local Mexican restaurant named Los Mariachis where we talked about many world news topics cuz we're the future leaders of Uhmerica. THE IRON FIST OF ALAN KELLER hit the table.
We drove to Walmart listening to Rihanna and 90's on 9: Sirius XM radio. Casey got contemporary temporary tattoos for all human units. She also got a wolf spirit T-shirt. Others were more practical and got $2.50 sweatshirts. We then purchased edibles for the week.
We headed home to TLB (secular) where we attempted to continue Mean Girls. Instead, House Bunny was on TV. Now we are blogging and will probably play Cranium. Let it be known that we are BFFs for life and are starting a gang. LOVE YOU ALL.
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