Driving to College

I remember the day we left home for the first trip to WSU.  It was Friday August 23, 2002 and we left in the late afternoon.  My parents requested that day off to take me to eastern Washington.  We had to take a detour and stop by my Aunt Angela’s house in Renton because I lived with her for a month out of the summer while I worked at the Kent-Meridian Shari’s. 

I left a few things there and I had to pick them up.  I just learned that Angela was moving out of the house into one down the road.  This was news to me.  I had no idea her and Robin were having issues.  With my dad being my dad, he offered to help take a few truck loads down the road, which was nice of him but that put us back a few hours.  We then learned that the printer that came with my computer just came in the mail at Grandma Karen’s house so we offered to back track to Puyallup to meet her there.   

Everything was finally taken care of and now we were on our way to Pullman.  I forgot how long of a drive it was to Pullman after sitting in the back seat with all of my junk for six hours.  We finally pulled up around 10 p.m. and I called Megan to meet us outside.  I had no idea what I was supposed to do.  It was passed the “move-in” hours but somehow we managed to find someone on staff that gave me my keys and we started moving stuff into my dorm room….lucky.   

My dad has this fascination with having the first fart, so he sat down on my bed and let one rip.  Thanks dad.   We brought in a bunch of stuff and then decided to go to bed.  The next day, we got some food and continued moving my stuff in.  We set up my computer and printer, hung up my clothes and put the stuff away in the closet.  It was weird I was finally at school and I didn’t want my parents to leave me.