so last time i wrote anything was before i headed out to Kemmerer, WY for the july 4th weekend. omgosh that was an amazing trip in every possible way. first off i have never been to any part of wyoming and really never thought i would in my entire life. my standards of the state were very low (maybe thats why i liked it so much). i always made fun of my friends that are from that state. usually made some stupid comment about how as a state they dont even earn a representative (they get it out of pitty), or how its the shit hole of america, pretty much it all runs under the subject of NO ONE LIVES THERE. not even dick cheney!!! they didnt even know of him til he showed up on the ballot.
anyways back to the weekend. i went to wyoming and loved it to my surprise. we went to a bbq the night alice, Pay and i drove in. the next morning was the 4th. we were suppose to be out of the house by 10am to go cliff jumping, or at least that was what was planned the night before everyone went to bed. well i woke up at 10 (actually 955)and freaked out. i thought we may have been left (at least it wouldnt surprised me if we were). i walked as fast (my version of running) as i could up the stairs...and they were just sitting there waiting for breakfast. whew! so i went back down stairs and woke up al and pay. they didnt want up (they thought it was 2am hahaha). we were staying in the basement. there were no windows or source of light unless we turned one on. pitch black, perfect for sleeping :)
we finally made it upstairs and had a wonderful breakfast (crapes) made by Dustin's (the friend's house we stayed at) dad.i only had...three (2 with only syrup and one with strawberries and whipcream...amazing)and several peices of bacon. i ate soooo much that if i had one more bite i would have puked...yuck.
after breakfast we headed out to the lake/resivior to go cliff jumping. oh and on our way we went on mostly dirt roads so we could shoot (and kill if you had aim...i didnt) prairie dogs. the 2 boys that came killed one each and it only took them each a shot. since i never have even touched a gun in my life, i got to shoot at a piece of trash as my target. i think i shot about 5 feet over my intended target. oopps!!!! they say part of that was cuz i juped when i shot (i blamed it on my eyes and no balance). but with the whole gun thing i didnt know what to expect. i didnt even know how to hold it (it was a 22 i think a rifle thing, not the hand gun. personally i thought that was the only kind of 22) and was expecting a lot more kick back from it, but there was none. after about an hour and a half we made it to the lake. all the girls finished their sunscreening while the boys went searching for the "spot" for cliff jumping.
i was planning to only layout on the truck, but that got boring really quickly. so i decided to climb down (not thinking about the climb up) and floated in a tube while every, well almost everyone (alice didnt even move from the truck). i dont blame her the water was gross. it was green cuz of all the algea that grew on the surface. after everyone was done jumping we headed back to the house to wash up and get ready for the night. i ran into a problem. i forgot to pack enough clothes :| so i borrowed some from pay. while everyone was washin up we played card games. you would have been so proud of me i didnt cheat on any of them :) we then had dinner. all i remember about it was there were 2 types of chicken. i think i only remember that cuz that was really all i ate. then we palyed a board game, settler of...something. i had no idea how to play but i was in second place before we headed out to see the fireworks.
we drove into town to see the city's show, but really to see all the families set them off. the best show including the city's was put on by the Wagners. i would go back to kemmerer just to watch it again (just might, wont know until it gets closer though). i also set off fireworks for the first time ever. the first one was scary cuz i didnt know what to expect. twice through the night the group we were with set off 2 M80s (pretty much a 1/2 stick off dynomite). super scary. no one ever warned me when they were set off and both times i dove to the ground and covered my head (like when an explosion in the movies happens and everyone ducks and covers). my knee didnt like me after that. dont think it can handle any quick movements yet.
the fireworks in town all ended at about 11pm and we headed back to the house. pay wanted to leave and get home as soon as possible. i just wanted to sleep. it was a busy day for someone who just started walking (officially) 3 days ago (as of july 4th). but she got her way since she was the driver. so we headed out with some resistance from Dustin. he could probly fortell that we were gonna get lost on the way home since he knew the roads and how well we didnt. even with that we decided to leave. we "would" get home at 1am, no big deal.
well the roads we not lit at all. the only sources of light were our high beams and the moon. not only did we have to worry about not falling asleep (cuz if i did then most likely so would pay), but also all the stupid animals. we came close to hittin 7-10 deer, one badger or wolverine (we dont know) and we hit a bunny. pay yelled uh oh and i just thought she didnt see one of thos cattle things, but it was actually a bunny that jetted out as we drove by.
we started off fine and in the correct direction. it wasnt until we were near Bear Lake (i believe 12 miles away) that we had a problem. pay saw a sign that said Logan and an arrow pointing left, so she turned. it wasnt until we were driving for about 15 mins in the wrong direction that i commented about seeing something about Bear Lake in 12 miles at the same point that we turned. we just wanted to get home so we didnt turn around (we probly should have if we had any idea of what we were about to go through). the drive was suppose to only take about 2 hours. we would go from kemmerer to bear lake to logan. but by taking the wrong turn we went from kemmer to randalf to woodruff to huntsville through the cache national forest to ogden to logan. it was the longest possible way we could have taken. it ended up taking us 3 1/2 hours to get home. we had no idea where we were going. we just knew that somehow there was still a way to logan whatever roads we took that were in a similar direction.
i was so tired that at one point in the cache national forest i was getting delutional. i thought the reflector poles were cars coming in our direction. i was wrong. we werent gonna see another car for over 50 miles when we got near a city. the entire time i was praying that we wouldnt get stuck for any reason cuz we didnt go the way that was intended and there was no cell survice. if we got stuck we would have had to wait til morning when Dustin got cell service cuz he went in town for church, but then again if he didnt get a text saying we made it from us it probly wouldnt have crossed his mind that we actually didnt make it. he would have thought i just forgot to sent it (it wouldnt have been the first time).
anyways we made it home at 230. we only stopped once in ogden for a snack (bato's) and directions. the dude in the drive through window didnt even now how to get to logan. its only 30-40 mins away. how the freak do you not know how to get there if you live in Utah? Dang man!!!
yea it was a really, really, really long trip and dustin wont stop making fun of us for it, but it was rather fun since both of us were never really "there" while in the car. we said a lot of stupid stuff and thought everything was really funny...even us getting lost. what do you expect us to do? get mad at the fact that we got lost in the middle of no where? please that ain't our style :)
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