Goodbye Deeproots!

 GOOD EVENING,



Today was a very busy yet exciting day! We started our day with a wonderful continental breakfast, where we quickly got to work afterward. We worked and finished up on the garden, laying the rest of the bricks to beautify the sidewalk, the difference is crazy!! We had a very frightening encounter with a Brown Recluse spider while shoveling rocks out of the quad... Safe to say that we dodged a bullet. Some of us also worked on finishing painting the house or moving furniture into a U-Haul to be donated to veterans.  .    

After all the work was close to being done we all took a break for a delicious lunch that was chicken tenders and egg noodles. Once everyone was done with their lunch we all went back to work on the garden and finished!! And because of all our hard work we got to go to the beach! It was very fun and we got to bring our new friend Patrick with us. We all went in the water, played football, and tanned. It was super fun. (I think we lowkey got tan..) 


Eventually it was dinner time and some of us had to help the kitchen cook meals so we all went back to Deep Roots and played basketball with some kids while others played with the little ones there and cats. They all enjoyed their new and improved garden and sand box! We then had our closing night ceremony that was very touching - thank you Jenny. Okay we got to go Olivia is telling us a bed time story bye!

-The best....

Charlotte C & Delaney K

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