Saturday, July 24, 2010

Friday, July 23rd

     The morning started again with breakfast in the room and then a quick stop at the LTM, Derek needed some man deodorant and then we were on our way to Cherry Creek, The view driving to the community was absolutely gorgeous. The roads were a little rough, and the gravel was fresh and the rocks were flying around. We arrived in Cherry Creek and it seemed pretty quiet, we first stopped by Justin Lynn’s house and she walked with us to round up other kids. Justin Lynn informed us of some dogs to not talk to and she definitely displayed some fear when certain dogs came around. We were able to round up a good number of kids as we walked through the community.


     We walked back to the vans with Justin Lynn, Zathan, Cheyenne, and Anthony. As we were getting the supplies out of the van and more kids showed up, Winter, Pacer, Chad, Colby, and others. We played the same games as yesterdays Water Fun Days in the other two communities. We meet Chad (14) who really likes baseball and we said we would go get the baseball equipment and be back next week. Around Cherry Creek we saw lots of dogs and horses. As we finished programming Justin Lynn wanted to have someone walk her home so Nancy and Krissy walked her back to her house, along our way we saw Chad and Pacer throwing a pair of shoes up to the phone wires. Krissy asked Chad what the shoes were for and he said, “For his homies” meaning that it was a way to show respect for one who has passed. We left Cherry Creek and drove to Red Scaffold.

     We arrived at Red Scaffold and as Team 4 went to the Community Center to fill up water balloons, Derek drove us through the community and it just seemed very empty. We then went and joined Team 4 in the CC and looked around to see the space we would be able to use. We found out that a lot of the families were in Eagle Butte getting their groceries. So we waited about a half hour and then noticed about 3 cars pulling in and later saw kids ready to join us. We meet Lindsay and her kids and walked with the kids back down to the CC and started playing games with Gabe, Mary and Lannie. We played our games and all got very wet with smiles and dog slobber on our faces! As we were closing our time there the clouds were getting black and the storm was coming in, so we packed up and got the kids home safely and headed back to Eagle Butte.

**The Powwow was a no go**

     We went to dinner at the DQ across the street and then decided to look around town for the teen center where lots of events were going to be held while we were in town. We found the teen center as well as a BINGO hall; we look forward to going and playing some BINGO with the people of Eagle Butte. We drove around town for a good while and talked to some people as well as find some places we are going to check out during the time we are here. We made it back to the hotel for a good game of phase 10 and then a late night snack run back to DQ at 10:00.

    Off to bed as we plan to spend some time tomorrow going to the Sioux YMCA to work on programming as well as going to Timber Lake for the Rodeo. ~Night~

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