a busy week for our smiles

Week 6: togas, tweens, tubing, and sweet tea:

Good food plus good company equaled good times for Eagle Five this 

past week with the help of Georgians, the Blackmans, and Iron men...

Starting the week off right with a themed team dinner 

(yes, we're wearing sheets and WE LOOK GOOD.)

The team with our new Georgian friends, and Jim one of our insightful site supervisors (left), in front of the 6x8ft utility sheds we helped the middle school missions club build on Thursday. The group, on a missions trip from Eastman, Georgia, worked on-site with us Monday through Wednesday helping paint, side, lay sod, and break up debris; then on Thursday we helped them hammer away to construct 3 sheds for Habitat homes.

Celebrate the arts by volunteering for the arts: In front of the Highlands Art League sign with appreciative Executive Director Alice Stroppel and friend. Friday we insulated a house for Habitat (in 100% humidity, mind you) then spent the rest of the afternoon helping renovate one of the                     Art League's donated buildings. With the help of community volunteers and Art League board members, we painted, cleaned, removed bathroom stalls, and constructed a stone path. Nearby at the Highlands Little Theater, Seth and Joel helped move props.

"Don't wait, Anticipate": Saturday we drove to Winter Haven to work the Polk County Hurricane Expo. We passed out flyers for the Red Cross, spread mad awareness of AmeriCorps, got some photographer love (thanks LB!), and even met Smokey the Bear. After a long day at the Orange Dome, we spent the evening at a movie theater seeing Iron Man (which was almost as entertaining as watching two guys taunt an alligator in the parking lot).

Everything else:

Saturday: Five Eagle Fivers joined Team Wolf 7 in Cocoa Beach, Florida (near Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center) to watch the Discovery space shuttle launch at exactly 5:02 p.m. 

Monday: Laid metal roofing on another house, while church group painted inside.

Tuesday: Laid sod at site of house removal (cool article here...featuring our Habitat, but not us) and finished roof. After-work pool party #1 at Ray's (thanks!); April getting a tooth pulled (ow!); and Florida storm season showing off (boom!).

Wednesday: Started vinyl siding to the tune of 12-year old girls singing pop songs.

Thursday: Built sheds in Avon Park, said goodbye to our Georgian friends, and wished we had larger stomachs to hold all the good food we were provided. After-work pool party #2 at Habitat supporters/board members, the Blackmans: thank you Mr. and Mrs. Blackman for having us over, and daughter Molly for taking us tubing on Lake Charlotte!