Yesterday was the last day of visitors, and all our stuff had gotten put away. One would think this meant we could sleep in this morning. One would be wrong.
We had a reception at 8 AM with all the other teams that fell under Guest Services. The location where all receptions were held is in Summit Center. This meant getting up just as early as the other days and catching a bus. We didn’t need to get breakfast because we were told there would be breakfast served, but we did need to go pick up our lunches. Today there was no meal ticket or restrictions on what we could take. I grabbed a few extra goodies to take home to my boys.
We hopped on a bus that took us to Summit Center, and made our way to the tent. Breakfast consisted of yogurt, fruit, mini muffins, and ice cream sundaes. Couldn’t have asked for anything better. Then we had a fairly standard program of the leaders thanking everyone for their work, and we were given a few goodies.
Afterward, we headed back to the bus stop, but none of the buses stopped. This was frustrating as one schedule said the route should run continuously, but there was a second that said it only ran in the morning and evening. We walked down the road to the main Summit Center entrance to see if there was a bus there. There wasn’t, but my friend hailed a ride for us with someone in a Gator.
Once we got back to Echo, our mission was to get the sauna heater to my car. One of our team leads met us by the sauna area, and we loaded the heater into the back of the SUV he had. We then drove up to Ruby, and straight into the long term parking to my car. Using mostly the Team Lead’s muscle, we transferred the heater from one car to the other. Unfortunately the trunk opening in the rental car I have here is about an inch too small, and we couldn’t fit it in there. We did manage to wrangle it into the backseat though.
We said goodbye to our team lead, as he was going home, and got into the car to head into town. We drove into Fayetteville with the intention of walking around the downtown shops. The ones in the downtown area were mostly decor items, a climbing gear store, and an outdoor equipment store. We had lunch at Pies and Pints and walked around a bit more. We then headed over to the big superstore to look for reading material. We found a few odds and ends, and even some ice cream, and then headed back to camp.
We headed for our usual hangout, the Chat-and-Chew. We read, surfed the web, and just plain hung out for a while. In the late afternoon we headed back to our campsites to freshen up, then met back up before the closing ceremonies. We elected to stay in camp and watch the live feed.
After the show was over I headed back to my tent. On the way there the fireworks started, and I had a pretty nice view of them from the edge of the lake. I started taking pictures, then decided to switch to video. Unfortunately my phone ran out of room. So I switched to Facebook Live for the last few minutes.
It was a lovely way to cap off the evening, made better only by knowing I didn’t need to set an alarm for the next morning.
Xennial Wanderer 