Road Trip (Day 2) MT-SD

Monday June 22, 2009

So we woke up in Montana around 6:30am and decided to eat breakfast at the hotel. Kind of funny, they were having like a truck drivers convention or something so we got to hear about their tips to eachother!! Lol. So after leaving the hotel we decided to go to walmart where I saw my first cowboy of the road trip! I also found out that they do not sell scratch tickets at walmart, wierd. So in order to get scratch tickets kathy and I drove to a gas station that advertises that they have a casino also!! Way fun! So after getting gas tickets we decided to drive to yellowstone in Wisonson!! Woot!! Lol... Ok so the dive to yellowstone took FOREVER!!!!!!!!! Like a couple of long boring hours. We get to yellowstone and I realize that because we went there I wasn't going to get a picture of the Wyoming welcome sign!!! Damn it all!!! So we go and see the gysers (sp?) and discover....how boring!!! What a waste of time for real!!! We probably were out of the car in yellowstone for like half an hour total!!! So we leave yellowstone and I guess were planning to make it to South Dakota by the end of the night....I did not realize that was the plan for the day though...so it was pretty damn annoying being in the car for that long!! Once we were in Wyoming, but not in Yellowstone we stop at the gas station for scratch tickets...only to find out Wyoming doesn't have lottery!! Fuck Wyoming seriously?! So we stop to eat at a Taco Johns (where I got a picture of their cool garbage cans) and then we fly out of town...thats when I started to realize how fast we were going and I was starting to get pissed off. I think Kathy might have noticed because she stopped for a few random pictures and started to slow down so I could get pictures of fun road signs and wildlife (I might have seen a prarie dog but wasn't sure!!!!) So after driving through hours of red rock / red ground we finally make it out of Wyoming and into South Dakota...it was dark when we got to SD though, so I didn't get that welcome sign either :(. More about South Dakota tomorrow....

Road Trip (Day 1) Hakuna matata

Sunday, June 21, 2009:

12:00pm (ish) Kathy arrived at my apt to pick me up for our road trip to PA!!!!!!!!! So we get to her car and she wasn't joking, my bag will be sitting at my feet the whole drive. Our first stop, Walmart in Renton *we made it far, I know!!* So after loading up on snacks (but not too many since the car was packed* its time to hit the road!! We made it as far as Ellensburg before stopping for lunch & gas; I was secretly laughing since we made 3 stops in WA already...little did I know how the rest of the trip would go. So after stopping for food and gas we drove through the rest of Wa and into Idaho!! Stops in Idaho: one. I got lottery tickets and we got gas. Then onto Montana!!! Woot, bring on the cowboys! So in Montana I was starving so we decided to stop for dinner. We had our trustly little GPS so we ventured off of the freeway and down this LONG street. Get about 4 miles down the street (in the middle of Nowhere, MT) and Kathy is all "whats that in the road up there..oh shit" Yeah. there was a tree that had fallen and was completly blocking the road. Thats how out in the middle of nowhere we were...so I guess were not going there to eat..time to get back on the freeway!! Ok so then with the help of the GPS we find another resturant..what the hell was the name again...Jaspers (thanks to my twitters lol) so we ate at Jaspers resturant / casion / liquor store!! The food was suprisingly very good. We both got the same thing...I think it was a cajun chicken that came with a potato and vegis...so nummy!! So after dinner we drove into Missoula to stop for the night!! So far; zero cowboy sightings!!!! :(

Camping!

Ok so Dan and I went camping this weekend with Terry, Lori, Rob & Angie and it was interesting, mostly fun but interesting. When we first got to the campsite (hours later than everyone else since they took the day off work) I took Captain out since he had been in the car for hours. Well, turns out Angie brought her dog, and guess what?! He's not friendly with other dogs. Why would you bring a unfriendly dog to a campsite where there are going to be other dogs? I thought that was weird. Anywase Friday night sucked since I had a major headache thanks to the bank construction at work so I basically ate and when to bed. Terry & Lori had set up an extra tent for us, and even loaned us a air mattress so I thought that was so nice of them!! Saturday I woke up pretty early and went on a short walk with Captain. After breakfast we all decided to go on a 1 1/2 mile hike around the river. I brought Captain (my pug) and Angie brought Irish, who I have no idea what kind of dog it was but its about the size of a lab. Well Captain got tired mabye a mile into the hike so I had to listen to Rob talk about my sissy dog for the rest of the trip. I did get a chance to see if Captain likes the water though, and I'm thinking he does, just not rushing river water. Anywase Saturday after the hike we went back and Dan and I went to the store since he wanted beer. After we got back everyone wanted to go to the cave near by, but it was thundering, so I didnt want to leave Captain in the tent alone. Good thing my dog is small cause I got to bring him!! :D Captain and I wern't too big on the cave though, which was fine because the entire walk to the cave & around the cave took less time than the drive there. When we got back it was raining, but it wasn't too bad. Birch bay rain a few years ago was TONS worse... So Saturday night we sat around playing apples to apples but we played it where if your card was chosen you had to do a shot of whiskey (that was the only thing there to do shots of). After my 3rd shot I was able to do the shots at the table, and after my 5th shot I was pretty much done. We all went down to the water for a bit longer and I was pretty out of it. I couldn't even walk back up the hill 'cause I kept falling. At one point I thought I was going to fall right into the water! So when we got back to camp we all sat around the campfire talking for a bit. After maybe an hour Dan decided he wanted to go to bed. Without going into too much detail (cause I don't even know) I guess I can't drink around Dan. I pissed him off cause I told his friends that if I hear something in the middle of the night he makes me get up (which is SO true) and he was pissed off at me for saying that, which pissed me off so it pretty much wasn't a good night. I told him fine, i'll no longer drink around him and leave my crazy drunken stories for hanging out with my friends. So next time Dan and his friends play a drinking game I guess I'm out.... Now I'm home and tired since I didn't sleep well (the tent was a bit wet since it had rained for like an hour on Sat). So basically that was my camping story. Oh, and Angie (robs girlfriend who I just met) wow. She's nice enough...but she's almost 40 and I swear she wears her daughters clothes. Its kind of annoying when old people think that they are young and cool...its more annoying when you have to deal with them for the whole weekend. But whatever....