Summer Adventures
Summer is winding down rather faster than I'd like, but it's been fairly exciting the past couple days. The family didn't end up going to Tahoe last week because we were lazy, wanted to watch the Olympics, and didn't want to deal with thunderstorms. However, my sister and I went up by ourselves on Monday! It was fun, and we had some interesting experiences. For example, there's a canoe in storage under our cabin and we decided to pull it out because we wanted to go canoeing. Well, it was tied to some posts and kept getting caught on bits of wood, not to mention it's heavy, so it took about half an hour to get out and my poor sister was stuck under the cabin for like twenty minutes getting claustrophobic. We finally got it out and discovered that it was bigger than our car. So much for shoving it in the back and taking it to the lake.
So then we tried to figure out how we were going to transport it. We had straps to tie it to the top of the car, but getting it up there was a problem. We had the SUV, so it was kind of tall, the canoe was heavy and enormous, and I have noodle arms which are not good at heavy lifting. The canoe did not make it to the top of the car. Taking a break, we drove down to the lake to see what the water was like and get ice cream. Turns out it was crazy windy, chilly, and the water was way too choppy to consider canoeing. So we spent another fifteen or twenty minutes getting the canoe back under the cabin.
Later, we got hungry for dinner. We hadn't brought up any food, figuring we were only planning to be there overnight and so we could just find something. Turns out almost literally everything was expired. We found soup that expired in 2001. Obviously we weren't going to eat that, so we drove down to town. We went to Safeway to get breakfast food for the morning and ended up getting Chinese food from the deli, which we proceeded to eat in the back of the car like hobos. We had the backseats down and had a little picnic, it was great. Especially when people walking by in the parking lot gave us funny looks through the windows or made awkward eye contact with my sister. Then we stopped at Ross, took the long way back (I turned the wrong way like three times), and watched kid movies and cleared out all the expired food. It wasn't actually that weird just us two being up at the cabin. Mostly the differences were that we could change in the living room and spend an hour at Ross without our dad complaining. And eat in the back of the car, I doubt he would've done that. Anyway, I had a good time, even if it wasn't exactly what I was expecting.
We got back Tuesday afternoon, then had a few hours to hang out before we were planning to go up to our grandparents' house because I had a hair appointment this morning. We actually ended up leaving about three hours later than planned because our parents decided to go to Olive Garden and our mom took forever getting home from work. Then today I got my hair cut in the morning, we went to Kohl's because my grandma had a 30% off coupon, and we had to hurry back so my sister could pick up her class schedule. There was a fair amount of speeding involved and we were frighteningly low on gas by the time we got there, but we made it in time.
Yeah, my sister starts school tomorrow. It's crazy, it feels way too early, like it should still be summer. These past couple days have not seemed like the last days of summer. I've still got a couple weeks, though I'm moving in a week early because I'm secretary for a club and they want to do officer training before classes start. I don't mind, because I won't have to worry about homework or anything and I've been on break for four months, so one week doesn't make that much difference. Slightly bummed because it'd be nice to have one more week at home, but oh well. I need to email my adviser about changing classes, since I'm rearranging my major/minor situation and I'm supposed to check before changing my schedule. I've been putting this off since like May it's ridiculous. I think I'll be taking 14 units (3 classes, a seminar, and band) and getting a job instead of taking another class and bringing myself to the max of 18 units. I could use some money, and I didn't use any work-study last year, so I should probably use some this year. We'll see how that works out.
Also, fun note, I am absolutely terrible driving in places I don't know well. I get lost almost every time. I've gotten pathetically accustomed to u-turning in parking lots and wherever I can find because I've turned the wrong way or gone too far. It's not very efficient, but I guess it's an adventure.
So then we tried to figure out how we were going to transport it. We had straps to tie it to the top of the car, but getting it up there was a problem. We had the SUV, so it was kind of tall, the canoe was heavy and enormous, and I have noodle arms which are not good at heavy lifting. The canoe did not make it to the top of the car. Taking a break, we drove down to the lake to see what the water was like and get ice cream. Turns out it was crazy windy, chilly, and the water was way too choppy to consider canoeing. So we spent another fifteen or twenty minutes getting the canoe back under the cabin.
Later, we got hungry for dinner. We hadn't brought up any food, figuring we were only planning to be there overnight and so we could just find something. Turns out almost literally everything was expired. We found soup that expired in 2001. Obviously we weren't going to eat that, so we drove down to town. We went to Safeway to get breakfast food for the morning and ended up getting Chinese food from the deli, which we proceeded to eat in the back of the car like hobos. We had the backseats down and had a little picnic, it was great. Especially when people walking by in the parking lot gave us funny looks through the windows or made awkward eye contact with my sister. Then we stopped at Ross, took the long way back (I turned the wrong way like three times), and watched kid movies and cleared out all the expired food. It wasn't actually that weird just us two being up at the cabin. Mostly the differences were that we could change in the living room and spend an hour at Ross without our dad complaining. And eat in the back of the car, I doubt he would've done that. Anyway, I had a good time, even if it wasn't exactly what I was expecting.
We got back Tuesday afternoon, then had a few hours to hang out before we were planning to go up to our grandparents' house because I had a hair appointment this morning. We actually ended up leaving about three hours later than planned because our parents decided to go to Olive Garden and our mom took forever getting home from work. Then today I got my hair cut in the morning, we went to Kohl's because my grandma had a 30% off coupon, and we had to hurry back so my sister could pick up her class schedule. There was a fair amount of speeding involved and we were frighteningly low on gas by the time we got there, but we made it in time.
Yeah, my sister starts school tomorrow. It's crazy, it feels way too early, like it should still be summer. These past couple days have not seemed like the last days of summer. I've still got a couple weeks, though I'm moving in a week early because I'm secretary for a club and they want to do officer training before classes start. I don't mind, because I won't have to worry about homework or anything and I've been on break for four months, so one week doesn't make that much difference. Slightly bummed because it'd be nice to have one more week at home, but oh well. I need to email my adviser about changing classes, since I'm rearranging my major/minor situation and I'm supposed to check before changing my schedule. I've been putting this off since like May it's ridiculous. I think I'll be taking 14 units (3 classes, a seminar, and band) and getting a job instead of taking another class and bringing myself to the max of 18 units. I could use some money, and I didn't use any work-study last year, so I should probably use some this year. We'll see how that works out.
Also, fun note, I am absolutely terrible driving in places I don't know well. I get lost almost every time. I've gotten pathetically accustomed to u-turning in parking lots and wherever I can find because I've turned the wrong way or gone too far. It's not very efficient, but I guess it's an adventure.