Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Guest Blogger: Sean


Day 2: Hood River to The Dalles, Oregon, back to Hood River, back to The Dalles again, to Maryhill Museum and Stonehenge replica/war memorial in Goldendale, Washington, arriving in Kennewick, Washington just in time for - um - panhandlers of the Salvation Army variety. Here's Sean who is 14 going on about 35:

We started our day with a continental breakfast at a Comfort Inn. We ended up sneaking food out for my sister who wasn't hungry yet. The woman making the food kept giving us evil looks like we were up to something. I just finished eating and noticed mom had disappeared to keep from being seen with the donuts that were supposedly unable to be removed from the room. If they had caught us, I bet we would have had to clean up after everybody. In the end, after all that struggle, she didn't even eat the food.

Next up, we had to go to Radio Shack in The Dalles because we had a dead battery on the camera and no charger. On the way, we saw signs for "Memaloose State Park" and mom said, "there's a mema on the loose". A lot. At Radio Shack, it ended up that the people didn't even have the right charger. There was this crazy dude standing by us in line who was ranting on about how swine flu stays on a hundred dollar bill for like 72 hours as he flashed a bill in my moms face. Mom started to back up. I kept thinking "this dude is a raving lunatic" and he somehow reminded me of someone I know.

We headed back to the hotel and packed up and rushed out the door about one minute before we would be late. Downtown Hood River has some fun stores and we were hunting for our favorite marionberry popcorn. We found it along with a bunch of other cool stuff.

Next we went to the Maryhill Museum with was pretty cool but I don't remember anything that was there. After that we went to stonehenge which was literally a bunch of stones standing up.

After that we took a drive for a while to the city which I now dub "Hillbilly Town" and we got checked in and did all the boring stuff and then went on a search for food. After driving in circles and mom getting lost a couple times because everything looked the same, we actually found civilization which included Salvation Army people with weird costumes on the street corner and the lady had a mustache.

It was pretty fun when we were driving on the freeway earlier in the day and mom had to drive on the bumpy parts. They do something to the road so people wake up when they drive onto it before they drive off the road. Mom had to move out of the way of some construction guys and hit the bumpy bits and it was loud and funny. So we did it again. Twice.

6 comments:

  1. WTF with that RadioShack asshole? I have been to Stonehenge several times and you can't stand up on it unfortunately ;)

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  2. Ha, ha great post. Well we have Stonehenge here in The UK too, and it's just a bunch of boring stones too! No one is allowed to go near them now, which is sad. Every time we drive past them my partner reminds the kids that as a child they played cards on the actual stones, and the kids groan with boredom.

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  3. Apropos of nothing, really, except Sean mentioned the Swine Flu which is apparently a cross between the bird flu and pigs...did you know it started when Miss Piggy slept with Big Bird?

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  4. Good job Sean. Your storytelling is excellent and perhaps if you write more I will be able to understand my grandchildren better:) Oh, this made me miss my vacations with my children.

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  5. Is that Rabies on the slab?? Is he being sacrificed, (NO!!!!) or is he just centering his chi?

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