Day the First
So, the long-awaited D.C. posts begin... The first fact of note is that I did not sleep at all Sunday night. Nope, not a wink. When the family went to bed, I changed into my travelling clothes and worked all night/morning on a drawing for my college portfolio. (Which ended up being destroyed by my brother and my cat 7 days later. Even so, I was accepted yesterday!!! :D) Anyways, I was feeling tired but not sleepy at 3:00, which set the tone for the rest of the week somewhat. Anyways, we all congregated at school, heaped our stuff in the parking lot and sat around hugging our pillows and trying not to freeze to death.
Then we all had devotions and the bus came... Brooke and I got rather bad seats at first, with only a bunch of food seperating us from the chaperones, although that didn't really bother us, we were just sleeping anyways. Well, trying to. The bus was suprisingly quiet for the first 3 hours though. One of the coolest things about a long trip in the early morning is that you get to see the sunrise...
Everyone gave up on sleep at about 6, so things got noiser. We hit up a rest stop on the turnpike, which was really nice... Panera for breakfast. They really have classy rest stops in Ohio and Indiana. Travelers tip #1. We switched drivers in Pennsylvania, so enter Steve, and adios to Charlie, who was a rather questionable driver. Steve is about all you can ask for from a bus driver, really. I'm glad they hired him again. Pennsylvania has always been a favorite state to drive through- where else do highways curve and go up and down? So exiting. Plus, it was the destination of my first road trip, and it was the last trip for my dad's old Javelin. He had sold it to some guy in Orbisonia, PA, and was hand delivering it. I got to ride up front in the carseat the whole way, and I don't remember it at all... *sniff*.
Well, on with the subject at hand. The drive through PA was all gray trees and purple redbuds, and after several hours and about 5 runs of my Smashmouth collection we got to Shenandoah. It's gorgeous, and I wish I would have been with my family for this and not my class- not all of 'em are nature lovers, and when you hear people complaining about something like this:
It makes you kind of sad. Oh well, can't expect everyone to get the same rush out of nature as me... :P Anyways, cool pics no? Sorry, but I'm going to try to keep people pics out, to foil all the stalker types that frequent the blog. Lol. Let me know if you're foiled, so I can chalk up the victory. Time constraints force us to end this post for now, but hold your breaths... Next stop- Derek and Derek and the Luray Caverns!!!
Then we all had devotions and the bus came... Brooke and I got rather bad seats at first, with only a bunch of food seperating us from the chaperones, although that didn't really bother us, we were just sleeping anyways. Well, trying to. The bus was suprisingly quiet for the first 3 hours though. One of the coolest things about a long trip in the early morning is that you get to see the sunrise...
Everyone gave up on sleep at about 6, so things got noiser. We hit up a rest stop on the turnpike, which was really nice... Panera for breakfast. They really have classy rest stops in Ohio and Indiana. Travelers tip #1. We switched drivers in Pennsylvania, so enter Steve, and adios to Charlie, who was a rather questionable driver. Steve is about all you can ask for from a bus driver, really. I'm glad they hired him again. Pennsylvania has always been a favorite state to drive through- where else do highways curve and go up and down? So exiting. Plus, it was the destination of my first road trip, and it was the last trip for my dad's old Javelin. He had sold it to some guy in Orbisonia, PA, and was hand delivering it. I got to ride up front in the carseat the whole way, and I don't remember it at all... *sniff*.
Well, on with the subject at hand. The drive through PA was all gray trees and purple redbuds, and after several hours and about 5 runs of my Smashmouth collection we got to Shenandoah. It's gorgeous, and I wish I would have been with my family for this and not my class- not all of 'em are nature lovers, and when you hear people complaining about something like this:
It makes you kind of sad. Oh well, can't expect everyone to get the same rush out of nature as me... :P Anyways, cool pics no? Sorry, but I'm going to try to keep people pics out, to foil all the stalker types that frequent the blog. Lol. Let me know if you're foiled, so I can chalk up the victory. Time constraints force us to end this post for now, but hold your breaths... Next stop- Derek and Derek and the Luray Caverns!!!
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