Memorial Weekend

After spending all last week worrying about what I was going to do over Memorial Weekend since all my friends were leaving. I decided to drive to Eastern Oregon to meet my family and some friends for a camping trip! My parents were a little uneasy since it was my first drive to Oregon by myself. I skipped my one class on Friday and left around 9:30 a.m. after watering my garden :). I also had a truck full of stuff I didn't want at school anymore. I thought I would get tired driving but I think I was just too excited to get there because I beat everyone by an hour! I got to the destination about 5:00. We ended up camping at Anna Resevior Campground in Summer Lake. That night after dinner we all hung out by the campfire. It was so nice just relaxing in front of the fire and looking at all the stars.

Being Silly with mom :)

Saturday morning we all loaded up in the trucks and headed to Avery Pass. My dad wanted to take everyone to this old homestead up there. To get there you have to go four wheeling and cross a river. We got to the river... and it was little to high. My mother's remark "Your dad never thinks anything through... of course it's going to be to high with all the snow melt." lol as we all got out to check out the river my dad decided to see how deep it really was in his new ugly water shoes. My grandma started screaming "Rod Rod get out of there" it was pretty funny. Two steps into the river and he was already up past his knees. Good thing he thinks its still the 70's and wears short shorts. Otherwise he would have had wet pants.

Since we couldn't get through that way my dad decided to drive all the way around and come in the back way. A few stops were made in between consisting of jelly belly and sour patch kids flying through the windows of the trucks. My favorite line from my grandma after getting hit in the face with a jelly belly... "I'm wounded!" haha. After a couple hours of driving on dirty and gravel roads we finally made it to the cabin. A lot of the building was collapsed but it was still fun to look around. I can't image how hard it was to live out there so far from civilization. While we were out at the old homestead me and my sister took my Grandpa's metal detector out to find some hidden treasures :)! I made her be the digger while I used the neat machine! We didn't find much.... just part of an old trap and a few rings for horse bits.

On Sunday, we split up into different groups. My mom and shirley took the gator and went to look for indian artifacts. Me, my sister, my dad, and doug loaded up the ATV's and went riding on the dunes in Christmas Valley. It was fun to finally ride again. The last time I got to ride ATV's was in August. The only bad part about those dunes, is that there pretty dusty and we all got dirty and tired of the dust fast. On the way back, I was following my dad in my truck pulling the little ATV trailor and we pass a sherif. I look in my rear view mirror and see him turning around! Bad news since we were out in the middle of nowhere and there was nobody else he'd be turning around to pull over except us! So I quick rolled down the front windows since the tint is illegal and sure enough, he pulled me over. He came up to the window and explained why he had pulled me over and then asked for my drivers license and thank goodness thats all he asked for because I currently don't know where my registration is! Wanna know why I got pulled over? I don't have my front license plate on. The cop also asked if the person in front of us was with us... I said yes... and he told me to tell them to put their front license plate on too. So thank goodness I didn't get a ticket. That was my first time ever getting pulled over, and hopefully my last.

After that we all went back to camp for a little while and then loaded up in the trucks and me and Ashley in the gator and headed off across dirt roads in search of the lost cabin. Me and Ashley decided to have more fun than everyone else and documented our adventure on the gator. We were going pretty fast, drifting corners, and jumping. Once we got to the lost cabin, or should I say found the lost cabin... We got the guns out and started shooting. We shoot cans for a while and then moved on to more exciting things... shooting birds :)

Ashley and the bird she killed

The Lost Cabin

Perfect Place to put a gun :)

Overall the weekend was very fun and relaxing. I got to eat lots of yummy food, hang out with my family, and go on some crazy adventures. I'm sad to be back at school :( At last only two more weeks till finals. '