Wednesday, February 20th - Cookies instead

We both had things going on earlier in the week, so our daily walk got postponed to Wednesday. The original plan was to take a quick walk around the neighborhood before we went to the warehouse to pick up another 600 cases of Girl Scout cookies for troops in the area (this is in addition to the 7,000 cases we handed out in the original distribution and the 432 we picked up last week). Katje had to help a friend with an errand in the morning so we went to a backup plan of going for a walk after picking up the cookies and unloading them at Katje's house, but before we starting sorting them out into each individual troop's order.

It was about 10:30 when we started loading cookies into the 10 foot U-Haul truck we rented and almost 11:30 by the time we got both the truck and my minivan loaded with all of the cookies. Back to the house, where Katje's daughter and her friend helped us stack all the Thin Mints and Samoas on the porch and the rest of the cookies in the TV room. Then we started filling orders. 10 cases of Thin Mints and 8 of Samoas from the porch, 1 Tagalong, 3 Trefoils and 2 Do-si-dos from the TV room. Stack it all in one corner of the living room and move on to the next order. 15 Mints and 14 Samoas, 2 Savannah Smiles, a Dulce de Leche and a Thank U Berry Munch, make another stack in the living room and move on the the next. You get the idea. Some orders were massive, some just a few cases but there were a lot of orders and a lot of walking back and forth. At 3:00 leaders started showing up to pick up their orders and we helped load cars (back and forth), kept filling orders (back and forth) and when we finished filling all the orders we carried all the extras into the TV room (back and forth). I finally headed for home at about 4:30, where I sat down and watched my leg muscles twitch. Fun!

It's not something we can check off in one of our books, but we agreed that this definitely counts for our weekly walk. We have absolutely no clue how it would translate into linear distance (Katje thinks at least two miles, I think more) but considering the amount of squatting and lifting and carrying that we did, we're good for the week. And if the need to check something off in the books becomes too strong to resist, I'm writing “Cookies” in the back of one and putting a check mark next to it!