Girl Road Trip!

Last week Hunter, Cora and I took a two day overnight roadtrip up to Bremerton, Washington to see my friend Kevin. Kevin and I have been friends since back on a riverboat casino in Sioux City, IA over 10 years ago. He was in the Navy and we stayed in contact and somehow coincidentally or not, he was stationed in WA after I had moved to Portland, so we still get to hang out every so often. When one of us makes the 3 1/2 drive, which he has an easier time driving. I start to fall asleep after about 45 minutes when I make it over to the WA border. :)
To keep me awake, I took some silly pictures, but I kept my eyes on the road for most of the time.
Hunter wasn't any help, she fell asleep most of the way.


We stopped off at a few rest stops and it was prime to get a picture of ourselves in a hand blow dryer!

This is the road coming up to Kevin's house. He lives in the sticks and it's gorgeous!

You can barely see it, but his house roof is in the middle of this picture near the road. Again, gorgeous!

There's Kevin, Savannah (hope I'm spelling that right!) and Hunter goofing around.

Savannah with the Clone trooper mask of Bailey's that makes sounds.

Kevin with the mask...

Bailey got it down for Brandon to wear, since they totally nerd out together on Star Wars and other boy stuff. (FYI... Bailey is like 9 and Brandon is 28). Brandon wasn't able to join us for the trip and Bailey was one bummed out boy! But we still had fun with his toys.

Me with the mask...

Unfortunately Hunter didn't get to try on the mask this time, but she enjoyed playing with it while it was on my head.

That's James and Bailey posing for James's mom Jenny, they found a frog up by their chicken coop. They have chickens too!

Kevin being himself...

Hunter and I got up early the next day so we went out to the front steps and enjoyed the quiet and beauty of their place.

The trip back was much of the same, Hunter sleeping, me trying to stay awake. Teri kept me company on the phone for the last leg of the drive. Thanks Teri!

Oh, and that was our trip.

To end on a completely different note, I fractured my little toe last week! Wow, is that painful! I smashed into it with the garbage can. I was hobbling around for quite a few days and it's still hurts a bit, but I can at least walk normal again. Don't ever do that! Owie! (ignore my nasty toe nails, somebody should really get me one of those pedicure thingys)