Our first build day

We had our first build day in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today. I was in a group of people that was fixing up an old building that is going to be used for the Habitat For Humanity Headquarters in Harrisburg so that they can put all of their offices in one place. Our lunch break included our new obsession - double dutch jump rope, which we had learned from some high schoolers who were at our dinner last night. We started doing double dutch with two kids across the street from one of the houses we were working on, and a woman drove up in her car and joined in! That is one of the greatest things about this trip. It is really exciting to meet the people who live in each of the areas we go through. It was fun to have a build day, but everyone was pretty exhausted after seven straight days of biking. We ended the day around 2:30 and headed back to the host church. I volunteered to do laundry, so we took two huge tarps that had everyone's clothes and lugged them to the laundromat. Then we had dinner at another church, which was cooked for us by a gourmet chef. Pretty awesome. It is amazing how supportive people are of what we are doing.
Tomorrow we are headed to another town in Pennsylvania where we will be camping! I'm excited to sleep outside and make s'mores.