Day 7

Gooooood morning from the Dopeys! Sorry this one is a little late, last night we were in the grand city of Las Vegas. This is our las post as the Dopey's!

Our lovely counselors let us sleep in because of our hike the day before, so people woke up around 7-8 in the morning thanks to the crows who just love to make noise early in the morning! We enjoyed a delicious breakfast of partially uncooked pancakes (thanks Grumpy's), sausage, and cantaloupe. We then started getting ready for Vegas, as we had a five-hour drive ahead of us to get there! But we were all so excited!!!

Some of our Grumpy cooks, John Gray Blount, Griffin Law, and Logan Swain making some pancakes!!

We left the Grand Canyon National Park around 12 PM, but not without special instructions for the Vegas Chant Challenge. We were told to come up with either a song or a short play with a main focus on everything that’s happened on TWB Trip 1, thus far. The long drive gave us a huge opportunity to prepare and make it the best possible. We can’t forget our lunch, which consisted of turkey and cheese wraps, although one of the vans (Carolina Girl) (which also had all the Dopey's on it so we could work on the skit) had ham instead of turkey. We are still not sure how that happened... 

Our new cooks, the Bashfuls!


Alaina Wallace and Erin Sherrill fulfilling their duties as cooks!
After a quick stop at Walmart to purchase groceries for dinner and grab some supplies for the skits, we finished the drive and pulled into the University of Nevada-Las Vegas parking lot, unloaded the bus and vans, and went inside a classroom to share our skits. After we performed, we listened to Nicole Fortin present her research on Las Vegas and Bailee Willis present hers on UNLV. 

Bailee Willis presenting her research on UNLV!
Nicole Fortin informing us about Las Vegas!

Our group, the Dopey's, went last, and we definitely went out with a bang. Our performance included a confetti canon, flashlights, and medals, as we did our own version of the TV show The Office’s Dundy Awards. We gave different people on the trip awards for funny things they have done or things that fit their personality. After all the groups finished, they announced the winner… US!! The Dopey's took the well deserved W this challenge. We again loaded up the buses and headed into the place we had all been looking forward to all day… Sin City!! WOOHOO!!



As we pulled into the parking lot behind the Flamingo and the giant ferris wheel, we could barely contain our excitement!! We walked through the city streets making our way to Caesar’s Palace to take a picture in front of a fountain. After the photo was snapped, we split up into groups of friends and headed out into the city alone... whose idea was this again?? Some people went to go see the water works at the Bellagio, some went to dinner, some walked around and shopped, and others stopped by the Apple store to FacetTime their loved ones!


Carly Kurtiak, Lillian Sumner, Griffin Law, Aubrie Miller, and Alicia Hutchins ready for VEGAS!

Group picture in Caesar's Palace!
Sarah Bass in her favorite place, Margaritaville in Vegas!

Cody Haigler, Brogan Brown, and Carolina McCrorey at In-N-Out!!

Bailey Keller, Kristina Vaher, Brogan Brown, Katie Bowyer, Seth McCrachen!!
Tanner Hester, Cameron Thomas, and Tim Sellers at In-N-Out!



Sarah Bass, Alex Mariscovetere, Nicole Fortin, Mackenzie Wright, Nicole Fortin, Kirsten Tevepaugh, and Mary Helen Alford in Caesar's Palace!

We met back up at the bus at 12am, and began the long haul through the night so we could wake up the next morning in the beautiful Santa Monica!!!! 

Ian Stines was ready for the overnight drive to California!!!

Our great counselors had to drive us all through the night so we could wake up to a beautiful sunrise at the Santa Monica Pier! Hannah and Dallas took the first driving shift and then crashed on the bus floor afterward! Eugene and Jon took the second shifts and we all made it here safely!

I’m sure you are all sad to see us go, as this is the last time the Dopeys will blog. Until next time….

Do-do-do-dopeys…OUT!!!!


*More pictures coming soon*