Day 9: Winner Creek and North Face Trails at Alyeska

Today we're going to hear from Chantz and Pausea. Let's start with Chantz's take on the day:

We started off our day by doing another wonderful quickwrite. This time we wrote about our biggest fears. I wrote about my mom. Then we had another long bus ride all the way to Alyeska. There were two groups of hikers. One group went up to the top, all the way to the restaurant, and the other group went on Winner Creek trail. Getting to the trail was probably the worst part of the hike. My calves were burning a lot and everyone else was complaining about it. Halfway through the hike, Kili n' Friends were separated because Kili and Nick. I was stuck pushing Janely up the hill and having to stop every 15 steps for her to take a break. When we got to the top we were able to enjoy the beautiful view. The gift shop was cool and smelled like cinnamon, which smelled so good. Using the tram to go down was a good experience and it showed off the great view of Alyeska. When we got back down we ate some sandwiches and had some vegetables. Then there was a long bus ride back, listening to Janely complain about her missing her hair appointment. We arrived back to the ASD Ed Center around 5:30 and ended the day by cleaning out our backpacks.

Now let's see what Pausea has to say:

Let me start off by saying I wasn't going come today. Long story short, I broke my ankle playing softball the night before. My cousins took me to the ER that same night and I didn't get out till 3. By the next couple of hours I got a call from Barb giving me an ultimatum. Either come to school and get credit or stay home and don't get credit. So I came to school unwillingly, by lunch time it was time for all of us to go on the hike. Unfortunately for me, the day we had to hike Alyeska, I didn't get to go, so I got sent home. To make the situation even worse, it was my turn to blog. As I sat next to the glass doors watching it swing open and close while teachers and students walked in and out and made their way onto the bus, I wished I could have gone. But on the bright side, at least I got to go home and sleep. Now the only thing I got from the hike is pictures and stories from the other students. Kinda made me wish I went even more. I heard Brooke was acting a crazy fool, Fega was singing, and people who were extra salty all week were being nice. It seems like when I'm here nothing happens, but when I'm not everything I've been waiting for, for these whole two weeks happened in one day.  I admit I'm super duper ninja salty that I missed all of that.