Thursday May 19, 2011

Our group of five (the same that had gone the day before) set out that morning a little behind schedule due to a short meeting with John and Anna Ramirez. We arrive in Brooklyn at Park Slop Baptist Church at 10:30 AM, about 45 minutes to an hour behind schedule.
Upon arriving, we split up, with some making tuna salad sandwiches, and others tackling the mess of a Clothing Closet. Charlie’s wife told us that a group of poor/homeless women had recently worked their way through the Clothing Closet and left it a bit unorganized. We spent most of that morning hanging up shirts and pants.
About half way through organizing the Clothing Closet, we stopped to take the tuna salad sandwiches to the homeless. Because we were so late in arriving, most of the people had already gone, and we only gave out seven bags and bottles of water.
We soon started on our way back to the church, and took up our posts in the clothing closet once again. We organized and hung and placed size tags on the shirts/pants until approximately 2:30 PM. We left shortly after due to a lack of things for us to do.
Back at the ole homestead, Jared and I made supper. Well, we opened a box and put the food in the oven…haha. After eating, we ventured down to 14th street for a bit of adventure and exploration. After walking around Union Square, visiting a few stores and simply spending time together, Katy Aleshire and Dani Bothe joined us.
We explored the area further and soon found ourselves on what appeared to be a movie set. The big give away…HUGE lights being set up in the streets at 10 PM. We asked the lighting crew which movie was being filmed and we were present with the title, Fiona’s Tale.
Dani, using her sophisticated phone with internet capabilities, searched until she found out that Fiona’s Tale was actually an alias for the new Spiderman movie (The Amazing Spiderman)! We snapped a few pictures to document our discovery and soon began on our way. We ended our excursion by stopping at Wendy’s for a late night snack before heading back to the comfort of our beds.