Re-Cap

This last summer was an awesome one! During my 4th quarter health class last year, I was having the students decide on goals they wanted to work on and eventually accomplish during the 9 week quarter. After all the students had decided on a goal, they also encouraged me to make a goal as well. I couldn't come up with one that I could accomplish during the quarter but I told the students I would travel to the 4 corners of the United States; Washington, California, New York, Florida.


My Journey started as I left Montana and headed to the old mission stomping grounds. I spent a few days there seeing a few favorite sites as well as a few families I've kept in contact with. From there I went south to Darcy and Perry's. This was a new experience for me as I had never been to Oregon before. Darcy enjoyed showing me all the fun things to do and see in Newport including a few coveted beaches, a shopping mall, and her massive back yard and shelter.
It was fun to see her little ones running around, playing outside and begging to be fed all the time! lol

I think my favorite parts of Oregon were the cold misty nights out on the trampoline and crabbing ith Perry. It was a litte creepy at times on the trampoline with so many trees and the fog but I kept reminding myself that all the wolves were back in Montana and Wyoming! My other favorite part was crabbing on the 4th of July with the whole family. Perry and I got started with baiting the nets up with turkey and chicken legs. I have to say that we were the only ones who were pulling up tons and tons of crab. Lots of keepers too. Turkey legs are the key to a successful day of crabbing!

After we lit off fireworks and scared all the kids to death, I headed south on the west coast highway. Highway 1! Just a little ways south of Newport is the Sea Lion Cave. There were quite a few sea lions but what amazed me was how rough the water was and how big the waves were crashing on the surrounding cliffs. During the drive the only thing I remember was how curvy and slow going the road was! It took me almost all day to go a couple hundred miles south to the Giant Redwood forest in California. All I have to say about that is.... the trees are GINORMOUS!! So there I was in the northern part of California. Two locations done on my goal sheet, two to go.

I spent the night in Susanville, CA about 80 miles west of Reno in some crappy hotel for a ridiculous price. When I left in the morning and reached Reno, I saw signs boasting cheap hotel rooms at a fancy resort, so I decided to stay. It was well worth it!

As soon as I unpacked my things I came down to the casino and put $100 on black! Winner! So I decided to walk away and down to the pool area. It was an amazing pool with lots of great scenery just like the Giant Redwoods, GINORMOUS! haha because I had won a little money that day, I got a big discount on the Prime Rib Buffet, $7.49. After I pigged out I didn't have a whole lot to do, so I walked around the casino and found an open Texas Hold em tournament with a 50 dollar entry fee. I thought it would be a good way to spend a couple hours having fun and not losing a whole bunch of money. Little did I know, that my table nickname was going to be the eliminator! At the first table of ten I eliminated all 5 of the 10. At the second table I eliminated 4 more. At the final table, I eliminated 2 others and took 5th place out of 40 contestants. Too bad it didn't pay, but that's pretty good for a first timer! The bad thing was everyone at the tables could tell it was my first time! Thanks grandma and grandpa for teaching me to play cards at such a young age!