heyheyhey!

i'm getting the idea that i should've posted a while ago, but oh well. i was up in oregon, visiting my dear notrab cousins. it was a great trip. we got to gramma's house sat night round about 11:30. we stayed up talking until 12ish, then "went to bed"...kinda. you see, we still had to figure out a plan of action to get up to oregon. so we stayed up with allyson for half an hour to figure it all out. by the time we went to bed, we had decided to try to leave by 5ish, so that we could make gosple mtg up in stayton. so we went to bed.

it took me almost a full hour to get to sleep. then, just as i had dozed off at 1:30, a chair started squeaking...i sat up and saw a sleepwalking chantal, but i didn't know that she was sleepwalking, so i told her another idea i had had while i was trying to get to sleep. this idea, though, allowed us to go to bend andget to gosple mtg there, so that we could see shawna. but we decided to just go back to sleep. when 5 rolled around, i was the only one that was still going by the origional plan. we apparently had to call chantal's mom, and inform her of our change of plans, but we couldn't do that until 7 unless we wanted to get skinned. so mtg plans pretty much went out the window. we ended up leaving at 9:30 (that was after breakfast at carls jr.)

the first few hours were pretty boring. i got an energy drink at one of the stops so that i could stay awake on my whole 2 hours of sleep. after about 4 or 5 hours of me being crammed in the back, i decided that it was brandon's turn for the back...so we switched. during the last hour of our trip, we listened to hey juliette 20 or 30 times. it was great. and i got 8 trucks to honk at us in 10 minutes. that was pretty great too. the rest of the week was actually pretty boring. except for brandon's and my expedition to find a safeway.

we had decided that there wasn't anything in the house that was real easy to make, and our cousins were all off at school, so we set off in search of this mystical super-store in the clouds. actually it was just down the street, but you wouldn't have known it. actually, maybe you would have, but we didn't...at all. we got out to the end of the road, and finally decided to turn right. therein lies our mistake. had we thought to go left the second time we tried it, we may not have ended up on the opposite side of town! so the first time, we just got distracted at a doughnut shop, and headed back, but the second time, we wandered halfway out of the state beforewe saw a little deli. so we got some food there, and gave up our quest all together.

i guess that's really all the funish stuff we did. the rest was pretty boring. especially my drive back down. erg. anyway, ttfn

kara