Today was by far the most fun day I've had. We started off with our training which wasn't too bad. We learned how to put the luggage racks on the top of the vehicles, took inventory of the supplies we got, and put some decals on the vehicles too. We also got our shipment of ClifBar in and oh my gosh did they hook us up for the summer. I was counting well over 700 ClifBars just in our first shipment. We get another in Denver, CO too. Also during the day we were able to sit down one-on-one with our director and talk about our responsibilities as a part of the Crew.
Since I'm the Public Relations Coordinator for the trip I will be working with contacting the media in each of the cities we stop at. I will already have a list of contacts to go by but I will be updating it as well as adding new contacts. I will also be in charge of picking up any sorts of media that we are in. If we're featured in a newscast or a newspaper it is my job to collect that and present it to the national office.
We also got the team packets ready for distribution and obtained a few items for ourselves as well. We got our team tux shirts as they're called. They're just grey shirts with the sponsors all over the back and the 25th JOH logo on the front. They're really nice. We also got our Pi Alpha dog tags too. When you complete a summer Push event like the Journey of Hope, Build America, or Gear Up Florida then you are entered into an elite society within Pi Kappa Phi, the Pi Alpha Society. It is a group of fraternity brothers that participate in the summer events and they have their own ritual and set of events that they do throughout the year. It's a pretty major honor to become one. I truly cannot believe this is still happening. Oh! So we also got together the team packets which consisted of the same t shirts we got and then the cyclists also get a pair of nice socks, a team jersey, and two team shorts. They also get Pi Alpha dog tags too.
Once everything had been finished for the day, we set out for dinner. One of the riders, Sloan Dickey from GWU, has a summer home on Bainbridge Island here in Seattle and invited us out to have dinner with his family. We took a ferry out to the island and caught it literally at the last minute as they were getting ready to pull out. Once out there we were given chips, watermelon, and some of the best sloppy joes ever. The view from their house was absolutely phenomenal. It sat right on the water and had an area beneath the house where we had s'mores and played catch with their dog. It was so surreal to just stand on the bank of the water and see Seattle in the distance as well as Mount Rainier. I've never seen naturally snow capped mountains before and it was truly spectacular.
Tomorrow is our last full day as a crew before the cyclists arrive on Sunday. I have no clue what kind of training we have in store. I'm sure it will be just as tiring if not more since we have to get everything finalized for the cyclists arrival.
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