Find your inner woman 4: the laundress

Yes, I know I am getting kind of obsessed with the 'inner woman' stuff but it just amusingly fits with so many things.

And yes, today I was a laundress. I walked into the Laundromat and immediately thought of Hairspray when Tracy's Mom tells her that her dream was to own a "coin operated laundromat!" and really, I don't see the appeal! It was all rather foreign and a little frightening: walking into this large room of whirling machines, dirty clothes, strangers, and the sweet smell of laundry detergent. There was a little confusion figuring out how to get a money card thing (some of the machines only work with the card, some are coin) and then figuring out how to go about putting a load in properly. I love how the machine can give you instructions, with PICTURES, but it's STILL confusing.

...and then of coarse, it takes like 5 different tries to get the card to WORK! but eventually, $3.15 later, you've got your load of laundry in the washer.

For the next half hour your sitting there with all these other people (luckily most of them were from JHBC) trying to entertain yourself. Most of us were attempting to read out Two Babylons book but my goodness it is a tedious read. Written in like the Dark Ages, it is hard enough to understand the English in it, never mind the theology! My head is already spinning from the laundry soup and then you add ancient Babylonian religion, the queen of the heavens, lions eating bees, the evil of wax candles etc... definitely NOT laundromat material...I got through 4 pages and ended up spending most my time just conversing with Danilo beside me on the table (yes we were sitting on the table).

Finally, the washer is done...but now you have to find a dryer open and with all the "not in service" signs everywhere, this was not so easy. But luckily snagging one quickly we get our load in. 55 cents for 15 minutes means a lot of going back and forth waiting for your clothes to dry. Talk about tedious!

While we continued to wait, some of the guys arm-wrestled which was entertaining for a bit but soon got old. Then Danilo and I started sniffing my laundry soap because we realized it had no smell...I explained to him that it was really GOOD quality stuff! and expensive; that I couldn't use cheaper stuff, only the best now...we had a good laugh as we realized what others might think of our conversation about my white powder in an old Peanut Bar jar.

Finally, 3 hours later, we headed out, stopped at the grocery store and finally got back to camp about 5:30...then I had to hang up all my clothes that I don't dryer dry (remind me again why not!?!?!?) and by then it was about dinner time. Sooooo basically it was a great day! At least I wasn't sitting around camp bored!