Trip to Pullman, October 2008

I left McMinnville at 6 AM so I could have more time to be in Pullman and go into Cleveland and use the resource room before they locked it up.  I have never driven to Pullman through the gorge between Oregon and Washington on I-84.  It was a pretty drive.  It was a clear day so I saw Mount Hood in the distance.  Not a lot of cars were on the road that morning going east, so the miles flew by fast.  I got into the Tri-Cities around 9:30.  I stopped to pee and to get gas because the car that I have doesn't get as good as gas mileage as the Intrepid does.  I got to Pullman around 12:30, parked and went into the house.  People were home...I expected people to be in class.  I brought some of my stuff in and visited with Erika.  She was studying for a test she was to take in a few hours.  We walked up to campus.  I went in the Bookie to see if they had any new stuff.  I got a few things and walked to the resource room to look at binders...similar to the one I will be turning in soon.  I walked home and waited for Erika to return.  We hung out a bit and dad arrived around 4:00.  He came over to fix Doug's car.  Doug came over a few weeks ago and the alternator was busted in it, so he drove the Intrepid home.  We went down to the Ford store and they did not have what we wanted.  So we went to the hardware store for some pieces.  Dad ended up getting it working and we went out to Taco Bell for dinner.  We stopped by Hastings because dad wanted to look at some magazines.  I've been up since 5:30 that morning and my body was letting me know it.  I was soo tired and needed to slow down.  I hung out with Erika and Dad for a while.  Me and Kari decided to drive over to Becca's since she was hosting a party.  All I did was hang around and talk to people, I was too tired to do anything else.  I got caught up with Shannon, Nickey, Brenna and talked to people I didn't know.  Bri showed up after work and the party had since died down completely.  Becca was passed out in her room and everyone else made it up to the ZZU.  I went home with Bri, talked and hung out before walking up to Monroe with Julie.  I got bored and tired and we finally left and came back.  I was so tired so I crawled into bed with Erika.

The next morning dad woke us up at 8:30.  Told us some stuff and then he left to go back home with Doug's car.  I can't remember what he told us, I was half asleep.  We didn't get up until 11 when Bri decided to come in and jump on us.  We decided we were hungry and went down to Dissmore's and got some doughnuts, bananas and chocolate milk.  After I got ready to go to the game.  Everyone was too hung over or didn't want to go, so me and Kari walked on over.  We got in around 2.  I could not believe the great seats we got.  Usually the seats we sat in would be completely gone two hours before the game.  I let everyone know where we are and we saved seats.  We had several people come up to us and tried to take the seats.  A girl came up to me and told me that her and her friend needed to sit in our saved places.  I told her that my friends were coming, she said but we're much cooler than your friends.  I said no, and told her to go sit somewhere else and pointed to some other seats.  She then said that she snuck in a flask and it was in her boobs, then told me that she didn't have boobs.  She reeked of alcohol and was slurring her words.  She got bored of me and left somewhere else.  Everyone finally came and the stress of saving seats was finally over.  I didn't know how much longer I could save them.  Above us, several rows up were eight people with the letters BURN UCLA painted on their stomachs.  I failed to realize right away what that meant.  Then I remembered the wild fires in Southern California.  The game started.  UCLA scored the first three plays into the game, that kind of hurt our morale, it wasn't looking good for us but it changed.  That would be the first and last time they would score any points.  We scored 27 points and earned our first Pac-10 win in a year.  We aren't last anymore.  Me, Nick, Nickey and Kaitlin rushed the field just to say we did it.  I walked home and hung out for a bit before going over to Kaitlin and Ashlee's.  We ended up going to Valhalla dressed in our costumes.  Me and Ashlee left and went over to the women's rugby house and hung out there for a while.  We left and walked home; played some flip cup and I went home and went to bed.

The next morning I woke up around 11:30 and went over to Kaitlin and Ashlee's because Erika was too busy to hang out.  We watched TV and talked about stuff.  Later on, I picked up Erika from her meeting and we went out to Cougar Country for dinner.  We got home and walked the cat and then went back over to Kaitlin's for movie night.  We watched Georgia Rule (frickin hilarious!) and Freedom Writers.  Very good movies.  I would suggest you watch them if you haven't.  I stayed over there until about 2, went home and went to bed.

Got up, packed my stuff, met with Kaitlin at the art parking structure to see the "secret place".  Packed the car, got gas and left Pullman.  Got to Portland and stopped in Clackamas to pick up my dress for Lauren's wedding.  Got home around 8 ish.