This morning we woke up in Council Bluffs, Nebraska at our home-town feel Western Inn Hotel. Our goal was to be driving of the parking lot by 8:30 AM. We are proud to say that we accomplished that goal and got a great start on the highway this morning. We headed to Topeka, Kansas for our awareness activity. It still amazes all of us the time that we make each day and how fast we move to different locations and states. It’s pretty crazy, it’s all about a ton of team work.
We stopped at a gas station to re-fuel our vehicles near the border of Kansas and Missouri. It was pretty full and hard for us to squeeze in to get some gas. Eventually we were able to get a couple of gas pumps! Filling up with gas is no worry at all now and we are quite fast at it. We all were feeling a bit hungry so we pulled into a Burger King near the gas station to fill our tummies. Our cast and crew are loving the sandwiches, chips, and fruit lunch routine. We had to re-stock our cooler last night so we enjoyed some fresh new items today!
Our minds were quite focused on getting some great footage today! We had a significant goal of making sure that we will share all of our experiences with the public. And I mean all! The camera was rolling in the girls hotel room this morning while blow drying hair and applying make-up was taking place! We have even filmed our random experiences in the car and many of our groups quite interesting conversations. We even got some great footage of us dancing to "I gotta feeling" the make your move routine from our NL SADD conference.
We arrived to a very sweet community around 1 o'clock today, Topeka, Kansas. After getting some coins into our parking meter we made our way into the beautiful Curtis State Office Building (it was air conditioned!!). We were very excited to see some familiar and new faces from Kansas SADD. We had some very great SADD people that greeted us right away and lead us to where we needed to be.
As soon as we entered our conference room that was within the office building we spotted a camera man/news reporter. He was very enthused to speak with the cast and crew. We quickly moved into interviews with the cast and our Northern Lights SADD Student of the Year, Beth Ryan had a personal interview with the camera. We are very pumped about the news coverage we received in Kansas today!
Several tobacco prevention people visited us and we had a great hour discussion about several different issues, ideas, and thoughts about the use of tobacco among people in Kansas and in North Dakota. All of us were anxious to explain our trip to them and they were very interested in what our goal was with the Pack It Up trip. We interviewed a few of the people from the prevention office and we can't wait for you to see them on our documentation video.
There were about 10 students that we had the privelege of meeting from Kansas SADD. They were so great and it was quite a thrill to meet students from another state who are on the same page and mission that we are. They were all so friendly and exciting to talk to.
Kansas was so great to us. They surprised us with a lot of gifts which included Kansas SADD T-shirts, backpacks, and water bottles. The PIU crew and cast along with our Kansas friends made our way to the state capitol to get a group photo.It was sad for us to say goodbye to them, but we are very thankful for the great visit we had with them! Thanks Kansas for being way to sweet to all of us!
After our awareness stop we enjoyed supper at Buffalo Wild Wings, and a ice cream from Cold Stone! yummy, yummy! I'm loving the food on this trip. I have ate at a lot of places that I haven't this week! It's been great!
Then it was a 5 hour drive to our hotel, however we are in great hotel tonight in Nebraska and are ready to greet our day and activities in South Dakota tomorrow! Stay tuned!
Lots of Love,
Paige
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