Longest day of the year, right? Also the most random day of work here on Cheyenne River. One of our supervisory people has a little 18 month or so old daughter who was running a pretty substantial fever, so folks here were scrambling while mom stayed home like she needed to to care for her little one. There was a lot of deep cleaning work that went on all over this timy campus, more work in the warehouse, more mowing, a "June birthday" party for the little ones at "the Main" (what they call the building they meet in) and a ping pong tournament complete with seeds and brackets and high level commentary. After lunch and before getting back to work this afternoon, the entire crew walked a little over a mile to a Dairy Queen on the town's north border. We have to tell you that over the years we have just "appeared" at many food and snack places, the mere volume of our group completely flustering the employees beyond measure. The people working at this Dairy Queen were friendly, efficient, patient and the nicest people to our kids!
After work and after dinner, we headed outside for our nighttime sky event, trying to contemplate our place in the universe all the while exploring how others before us have done the same thing. The night sky here is something!
We'll say goodbye to our Cheyenne River friends tomorrow morning, and head to the Black Hills to visit some buffalo and see what there is to see. Our gang has done some great work in spite of some unplanned things our hosts had to deal with. Internet access maybe spotty on Thursday and Friday, but we'll do our best to keep you up to speed.
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