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“This is how it works
You’re young until you’re not
You love until you don’t
You try until you can’t
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath”

1. Nice song

2. I know I should be updating more often, especially since paying for the server space caused me to overdraw my bank account. That alone is reason to use this.

3. Spring break was amazing! I spent it in Juarez, Mexico building a house. We road tripped out there, which was a blast and I got to be shotgun, which meant that I traded picking the music for being able to sleep. The sunrise while returning from Mexico was totally worth it.

Some highlights:

Driving out there was great fun and gave us a chance to really get to know people. Ryan drove the minivan and I was his shotgun, while the other two vans were 15 passenger ones. We had walkie talkies, and at first we were Minivan Ramrod and then Minivan Halen.

There were 2 teams, each building a house. The family that we built for was 2 grandparents, a single mother and her 3 children. My team was so much fun! We had tons of cool freshmen come this year, and it was great working with them. I still love roofing and like doing stucco a bit less now. Having Matt, Charles, and Zach on the same site was loads of fun. We worked with Pete, who has built some ridiculous number of houses since he started working at Casas. He was in charge of my site when I went 2 years ago. It was so great to be able to build a house for this family.

Staying in Juarez was great. A lot of us put our sleeping bags up on the balcony and slept under the stars, which provided a great sunrise as well.

On our last night in El Paso, we ate at Cattleman’s, this really cool ranch and steakhouse. We walked around the grounds and got to see buffalo, llamas, and lots of other fun stuff, including peacocks. It’s way out in the country too, so it had a great sunset and view of El Paso way off in the distance.

We spent the next night in San Antonio. Everyone went to see the Alamo and then went their own ways for dinner. Dinner on the Riverwalk was great. Ryan and I ate at this great little restaurant right on the water that had a jazz band. It was a lot of fun.

Out next night was in New Orleans. We went to see the park that we’ll be fixing up for Eggs in the Easy. Bourbon Street is still gross. We had dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. That’s about all for New Orleans, I think.

There’ll be more pictures soon!