Iowa was good, we hung out with Gran, went shopping, swimming, and rearranged my aunt (second or something) Ruthie's bedroom in the middle of the night :D . I got a bunch of clothes at Stuff Inc or something like that, I know it was called Stuff. Took pics with Gran etc. Left Iowa City, went through Dubuque, saw the Effigy Mounds and got lost in Wisconsin. Which has VERY bad signs by the way. Went to Duluth Minnesota. Swum in Lake Superior, got bit by flies (damn them!) and the Huckleberry falls was nice to climb around on. The time there was nice, I did a lot of reading, went for a run, Paddy helped around the farm. I liked Gwen (moms friend who lives there). Went fishing, which was kinda fun, because I wasn't sitting in one place the whole time (trolling I think), so I don't hate it lol and the trip out there via four wheeler was fun too! Next we went through North Dakota. We went through Fargo, which apparently a lot of people that I know had family there a LONG time ago. We went to this buffalo museum thing and saw three white buffalo, which are sacred fyi. We went through the Theodore Roosevelt national monument, which was really beautiful, we stayed the night there. There was a huge herd of buffalo out there too, they were standing in the road at one point, it was quite funny, buffalo make strange sounds! We went to a dinosaur museum, which was cool, but not my favorite. Then we went into South Dakota. We went through the Badlands (which means we went through both, North and South, North is the Theodore thing). And to Wall Drug, which is so touristy it kinda made me sick XP. Then we went to Deadwood, which was okay, I liked the graveyard, and camping there that night was fun. We went back through to Mount Rushmore, which was cool :D. We stayed there for TWO WHOLE NIGHTS, it was decadent lol. We got the storm of a lifetime in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The water was coming into our tent! It formed a lake, which I named Lake Sunshine :D we stayed in a hotel that night... lol. We also swam in a hot springs pool that had been there for over a hundred years :o! Oh and the mammoths. There was a excavation site you could go in, it was a sinkhole that had gotten filled it. Anyway, the found like thirty mammoths in there! And they were all male lol! It was cool :D and at the end of the tour the guy said that "If you have a chance go down and see the paleontologists on display downstairs." completely deadpan, Mom and I were the only ones that laughed. Anyway, we go to the elevator and it says hours are from like 9 to 4 or something and it was like 4:30, but Mom said they were work-aholics and would probably still be there, and they were! Little framed windows and everything XD. There was also a hut made out of mammoth bones (example) that was really cool! We also went to wounded knee. Which was interesting. Mom had another guy fall in love with her lol (there were lots over the trip, I would think four? maybe five lol I only caught one that I know of, more later XP ) So on through to Wyoming! Devils Tower, neat, Bighorn Mountains, really cool, Medicine Wheel, quite cool and Yellowstone! Which was cool, Paddy liked it :) Camping was HELL though XP we didnt want to stay a second night but we saw old faithful! And two days in the park was good. Technically we slept in Montana, btw. Then Idaho, where we went to Craters of the Moon, which is this HUGE lava field if you haven't heard of it, we slept there, and I kinda admired a soon to be marine >.< I know weird, right?! I saw him building this huge beautiful stack of rocks, several of them actually, and he was at it for HOURS while we were caving (we set up camp where he was doing it then went caving) and he took it all down in the morning... it was neat. Anyway, so we get to Oregon and stay on the Snake River. It was really pretty, particularly watching the storm come in... we had the worst WIND storm ever... Mom tied the tent to the car and broke the window with her adrenalin lol. We held the tent up for two and a half hours. Through midnight. It was actually kinda fun lol. In the morning we patched it with plastic, which didn't work well >.<. I can STILL hear it flapping we drove to Hells Canyon, went to an Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, and we had our one and only fight (Paddy cried, Mom and I were fighting) I am pretty sure because of the widow... We made it to La Grand though! We slept right near the Oregon Trail, WHICH WAS COOL. I thought. Saw a cute boy in La Grand, he had a lip piecing :K and, well he was cute ^_^ AND I think he may have liked me, just a bit... he worked at Starbucks :P Made it to Portland alive, stayed the night at Grandpa's. Went to Tanna's (my aunt on mom's side). We were there for a couple of days, then came to Bend, which I had NO idea was such a destination! We couldn't camp anywhere! We did find a place, went to the High Desert Museum and then moved into the teepee that Chris owns (we ended up there for two nights because the day we wanted to leave, sunday, the car broke, we had to get its axles or something replaced...) We floated the river twice on saturday :) Oh and on Friday we went to Munch n Music, saw Liss and then Sara, Cody and Karen. It was kinda weird with the second crew... Sunday we hung out at my Grandparents to see llamas (for Paddy). So yeah, went Back to Portland, hung out a day with the cousins (Selene and Isabell) Then came back here and dropped me off.... I was sad... I cried, but then I cry every year lol. Oh and during pretty much the whole trip we read a AMAZING book, Shantaram, I would suggest it, I am going to buy myself a copy.
:)
Love you all
~K
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