Area I

Katie, Kaleb, and I had some crazy experiences in Area I! I was amazed at how pretty it is up in the Panhandle. Every morning when we woke up, the clouds would be so low that they almost touched the ground, and you could see for miles! It was perfect sleeping weather. Of course, we didn't do very much sleeping up there...

We did, however, play an intense game of basketball in Texline. The 3 of us decided that we must be a bunch of fat kids, because we just couldn't hang with those guys. Kaleb was so red afterwards that it looked like his head was about to catch on fire! I'm pretty sure he almost passed out...and we still lost.

That could be the eating habbits that we acquired from our Area I travels. All I can say is that Leal's Mexican food in Muleshoe is AMAZING! I don't know how they stay so thin up there when they eat that every single day. It was so good that we ate there twice: once for dinner with the Lazbuddie chapter officers and the next day for lunch with the Muleshoe guys. Thanks to Kale in Lazbuddie, I tried my very 1st Laura's special. Talk about good stuff. Everyone swears by it, and there is definitely a reason for that.

The one thing they don't have in Area I is rubber bands. We learned that one the hard way. After a presentation in Canyon, we noticed that we were running low. We decided to finish up the day and go buy some more supplies after we were done. We called an office store in Dimmit that swore up and down that they had the right size. We drove 20 minutes to find out that they hadn't even looked at their rubber bands yet. Our only option was to go to the closest town we knew of- Amarillo, a full hour away. We started at Office Depot. No rubber bands. We went to 3 party store. No rubber bands. So, we went to Hobby Lobby, Michael's, CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart. Still no rubber bands. Finally, we found an Office Max. By this point, we had run out of hope. We marched in that store, looking more pitiful than you could ever imagine. Then, we saw it shining like a beacon of hope: aisle 13. Right there, amidst the pencils and papers were...RUBBER BANDS! We screamed. We laughed. Then, we bought every package of rubber bands in the entire store. 2 hours and $40 later, we knew that we would never run out of rubber bands again.

So, if you're looking for rubber bands in the city of Amarillo, you won't find them. We have every single package. No worries, though. Kaleb swears up and down that he is going to create a giant super store full of nothing but rubber bands. Then, Area I will be considered a place full of history, good food, basketball, and rubber bands. : )