While I was at work, I got a text message from Ashley, telling me that her mom needed to call me. I kinda got scared. Her mom is intimidating. She just called to give me directions because I had to go get Ashley from Elma. I originally thought she was going to meet us at Rochester; instead we had to go the way I really didn’t want to go. After I finished with work, I hustled over to the Stancil’s house. Thank goodness everyone was there and we didn’t have to wait a long time. I started packing the car and Erika had arranged where we were going to stay so she gave me the details. I paid her my share of the hotel room and we rounded up the gang. We stopped in Rochester because none of them had eaten and I hadn’t either (I’ve been up since 5:30 a.m.) and I was starving. I got a happy meal and we continued on to Elma. The directions to Ashley’s were actually easier than what her mom had made them sound. We told her to hurry up and put her stuff in the car so we can get down there. We got back on the road and headed towards Raymond, on Hwy 101.
A few miles down the road we got stuck in traffic. Figures. About fifteen minutes later, we were driving again. The drive seemed to go on forever and they had the music up really loud. I knew this day was going to be long. We made it to the Astoria Bridge. I didn’t realize the bridge was 2+ miles long. It took forever to get across it. The girls were getting excited because we were about twenty minutes away from Seaside. We got stuck a little bit in traffic but managed to get out of it quickly. After weaving our way through Seaside looking for our hotel, we finally found it. We even got honked at because I thought we were going down a one-way street. Oh well, no one died. Kara came in with me to check us in. They had me sign some paperwork and the lady gave me a couple of room keys. We were the room on the corner. We grabbed our stuff and went into the hotel room. The room was TINY! I couldn’t believe a room like that was over $100. The room was definitely for two people instead of five. We managed. The girls got ready, whatever for, I don’t know and we walked the Seaside strip for a while. We met up with some of their friends that they’ve known for awhile because of a previous basketball tournament and had them take us to the Taco Bell for dinner. Afterwards, we spend a couple hours at the beach. Ashley and I made a sandcastle, Kara and MiAna were in the ocean getting wet, it wasn’t the warmest weather while we were down there, and Mikaila was back and forth between the ocean and us doing the sandcastle. Ashley and I went back to the room and we brought out the soccer ball. We continued to hang out at the beach until everyone got cold. They changed and we walked around the strip again. It was around 9 p.m. and they were hungry again. We met up with them at the Pizza Hut. We hung out for a while and then we went back to the room. They said their goodbye’s and they went home. Then we walked around the boardwalk and the strip again. We got bored and went back to the room. At this point I was really tired. I started putting my bed together. Ashley and I slept on the floor and MiAna, Mikaila and Kara shared the bed. We put our pj’s on, brushed our teeth and chilled. I got on the internet for a bit while the rest of them watched some TV. I fell asleep instantly. Apparently, I got up around 3 a.m. and used the bathroom…and I told Mikaila to turn the TV off because it scared me. Haha, I don’t remember saying that. Then Kara’s Ihome went off and Mikaila yelled at me to turn it off. I didn’t even hear her because I was so tired. She got up and turned it off. I did hear it the next time it went off and I just reached up to the table and hit the button.
We all didn’t get up until about 10:45 that morning. Kara and MiAna called the front desk to see if there was free breakfast food. They told her they stopped serving breakfast around 11 a.m. but there might be some stuff left. They brought back some Apple Danishes. I ate one of them while we got ready and packed up our stuff. We had to be out of there by noon. We crammed our stuff in the car, picked up the room, returned the keys and they decided that they wanted to go shopping. We split up into two groups and hit up different shops. Ashley and I got bored so we walked about eight blocks to the Nike outlet store. We looked at a few other shops too before walking back because we were hungry. We walked the eight blocks back and we talked about her Rainier/Elma dilemma. I hoped that she chose wisely. I had the other girls reserve a spot at Dodger’s, a sea food restaurant. We ate lunch around 2 p.m. and took our time. We got done and decided to continue shopping. We went to the candy store and I picked up a few things. I had to pick up a few sweatshirts as well and went to the place that everything was $12 or less. We walked back to the car and told the girls if they wanted to go to the outlet store that we would have to leave now. I frantically looked through my stuff for my gas card. I called mom to see if she could find it at home. A while later she let me know that it was in my shorts I had worn the last time I got gas. I had to use my debit card for gas. We left our hotel parking lot and tried to find a gas station. The traffic was backed up going south so we found another way around traffic or we’d be there forever waiting. We found a Chevron and had the guy pump our gas because we were in Oregon. I hate getting gas in Oregon. We filled up, the girls used the bathroom and we were on our way to the outlet stores before we left for home. We spent a good hour looking at the stores and I reminded them that we needed to leave. Kara had to get ready for Illinois, Mikaila and Ashley had Riley’s birthday party to go to, I’m sure MiAna had something she had to do and I had to go to a bonfire. I rounded up the girls and we were on our way home. This time, since we didn’t have to go to Elma again, we went the quick way home. Highway 30 to Longview to I-5. We got home around 8 p.m. and I hurried over to Barlow’s house for the bonfire.
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