Let's STOMP OUT MS shall we?

So this last weekend I volunteered for my 3rd year at the MS 150 Bike Tour. This has seriously become one of my favorite things about the summer. Even though it is a LOT of work with early morning and lots of manual labor (those who know me, you know that really isn't my style) but it is for a good cause so why not! Here's me, Nick and Christin headed off at 5:30 am to get the party started! I feel like we already look pretty hammered and this is Day 1..before we did any work....Here's the volunteers hanging out with Tara...aka the Event Coordinator for the MS Society. She also happens to be my good friend, and that's why I volunteer!

We were all team leaders this year, you know having done the event before, so here we are hanging out while the newbies work. Just kidding...well kind of....And is is just me or do we all look really nice in florescent orange, or cantaloupe as Christin kept calling it. Call it what you want, but at the end of the day I have something to wear during hunting season...finally!
Here's Nick doing his self appointed "Honey Bucket" (porta potty) duty....hard at work... So then I joined him because I figured he could use some help..... Here's Christin filling the water bottles, she asked me to take a picture of her working so we could show that to people. You know, to prove that we were in fact working...which we were...part of the time...but unfortunately those picture of me working are on Nick's camera. So you will have to take my word for it. Well, actually, here's a picture of Nick and I hard at work eating a sandwich....This really was the first time we had eaten in hours and we were pretty ravenous. And apparently, this is when Nick got too hot for his shirt so he had to strip to the tank. Oh the tank, just you wait for the treat I have at the end of this post regarding the tank....Here's Christin and I taking our Special Event Leader badges pretty seriously. Seriously, if you give me and inch with the power I take a mile (not as much as some did though). Every time my badge was turned around I made sure to switch it back around. I wish I was lying about this...
Here's me on the final load from the lunch spot on day 2. Seriously, I have never been so sweaty in my whole life, I was sweating in places I didn't know existed (sorry too much information I am sure) but seriously truth be told. It was like 98 degrees (not the band...but gosh who doesn't love a little Nick Lachey) outside in the hot sun loading a diesel. Seriously, I was loading a diesel. This is the final load of the bananas, so naturally we figured we better document.

I am so glad I got to volunteer again this year, we really had a terrific time. And like I said, it was some early mornings, lots of sun, manual labor and hard work but it was worth it. And plus, it didn't affect me as bad as some....

Gotta love the mantank sunburn lines.