I Now Know Why No One Went BACKWARDS On the Oregon Trail...

A few things about Wednesday night before going on to Thursday:
-When Adam stopped for gas, I ran over to his car and told him this would be my second time pumping gas and I needed the experience. He thought it was weird that it's illegal to pump gas in Oregon.
-After the evening session, Kirk, Kristjun and I went outside to see if we could hear the elk bugling. Adam and his friend Jeff and tried calling them at the national park, and the elk bugled back, so we tried doing that. After I made a (rather pathetic) noise, we heard an elk bugle back! We kept on trying, and then we heard a bugle that sounded rather fake. I shouted out "Are you an elk or a person?" The "elk" shouted back "Yeah, I'm a person." So it wasn't as successful as we hoped it would be.
-I had Dr Pepper at lunch. It really kicked it right before the evening session, and after the session I got really antsy to do stuff. I bugged Kirk to hang out with me. We played ding dong ditch on Kristjun, and then Kirk told me I should knock at Kristjun's door again and throw ice at him. I turned it around because when Kristjun answered the door, I explained to him what Kirk thought I was doing, but what we REALLY were going to do was run over to Kirk and dump all the ice on him. After that, Kirk and I went on a "scavenger hunt".


Yesterday morning we had our last session, and then had to pack up and go. The Solmens took the van, and Kristjun drove me in the Cherokee (I had to explain to him that no, I didn't want to drive and yes, I really don't like driving very much). I didn't take any pictures for multiple reasons (1. It was really windy and dusty as soon as we got out of the mountains, and 2. It was dark part of the way), so you can pretty much just read my first post about Colorado backwards. :)

It was super-duper windy. And dusty. And tumbleweedy. The only points of interest were the Nebraska border and the Central Time Zone border. Well, there were OTHER "points of interest" as labeled by signs along the road. We passed one of those signs in the middle of the desert and were wondering what on earth could be a "point of interest" around there. I'm pretty sure that the telephone pole was the "point of interest". We stopped at Taco Bell for lunch, and Arby's for dinner (my choice, glad everyone else agreed with it!). Kristjun encouraged me to get a Dr Pepper at Arby's and he would get a Mtn Dew to make the trip more "interesting". I guess I got a little more social, but it didn't kick in as much until we got home and I was nowhere near ready to sleep. We decided to go to WalMart because he needed a bunch of things, and I needed to look at phones because mine had spontaneously died while in Colorado (so no one try calling me!). I didn't find a phone, but we ended up shopping at WalMart until after midnight. I didn't fall asleep until about 2 this morning.