second day at amicalola. march 2

Today we woke up freezing. Though when i say woke up, i mean multiple times during the night because of how cold it was. The temp went down into the high 20's, and i heard that tonight it should be in the low 20's. We woke up at one point during the night and decided to do pushups to raise our body heat. It worked well, until after falling asleep we got cold again, it was in and out sleeping the whole night. If it doesnt start getting warmer soon im going to need a warmer sleeping bag. We went to the visitors center in the park today just to check it out, and found two people with a few different birds of prey, owls, a vulture, a hawk, and they told us that there will be a show with more birds at the lodge a mile away. We decided to walk there, and when we got there the show was already under way, different birds and a presenter talking about them. Afterwards, we spoke to the presenter, who is a park ranger here and she gave us advice on what to about the cold, how to lighten our packs, and some tips about the trail. Shhe told us we can sleep in the campground bathroom that is heated and will be open all night. DJ asked a counterperson at the lodge for a hot drink, and a few minutes later one of the girls working there showed up with hot cocoa for each of us. We walked back to the shelter, pcked up our packs that we had left at the visitors shelter, and shortly after got back to the shelter, a few more hikers came to join us. A few minutes later, the park ranger showed up with a duralog for us to start a campfire with. Things are looking good, but im still debating sleeping in the batroom. Its late now. I think around 9pm. Its cold. Very cold, and its snowing. Were sitting around a campfire, 2 of the other campers, caleb and freeman, joined us a while earlier. Caleb was a guy in his early 20's, he had grown up on an army base, and had been discharged from the army.. Freeman was ollder, he stopped working in 2003, and has been living on the trail and the road ever since. We ate a dinner we cooked over the fire, and were just chilling smoking now.