Day off Yesterday

 There wasn't much going on yesterday so I had the day off. I went to the car wash to give the ambulance a bath. I had to go to the bank and get a small loan to wash the truck -- that's how dirty it was. I'm also surprised that Customs let me import that 500 pounds of Canadian rock and dirt. 

All clean! Hopefully I'll gain an extra mile per gallon after unloading all that rock and dirt.

What to do on a day off? With a clean ambulance first we went to The National Shrine of St Therese.  The grounds were really well kept. The church was out on a peninsula in Aiken bay. 


This is the entrance to the Shrine.





The view from the Shrine!

We also did some hiking in Auk village park which is our new spot. It's really close to town. I forget to take pictures... I'll get some next time. 

We also did some normal boring ADULTING, you know shopping, filling up with fuel, all that fun stuff.

Today we had a Captains meeting this morning and I have a trip at 5:30 this evening. 

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