June 29th

1. Today was road trip Day!! whoo hoo!! i've never driven past hope on my own so it was nice to be able to drive a little bit farther.

2. We left bright and early with our first stop being starbucks of course just to pick up some beverages for the road. it was pretty fun.

3. There was lots of construction on the road which made a bunch of stops.

4. we took some pictures of some of the guys at the construction sites so that made things even more interesting.

5. was sad when there wer eten million signs saying that there was wildlife on the road and i didn't actually see any. made me a bit disappointed.

6. there was a cocky guy in a convertible that kept waving every time someone would pull over for him. later we saw him going the other way on the freeway though so it kind of made me wonder..

7. got a spedding ticket! oops... the guy clocked me, i was going 123 in a 90 zone, then he paced me and i was going 145... funny thing is i hadn't gone near that fast all day, but something had just happened that made me excited and therefore i was suddenly speeding.

8. when he came up to the window he goes "um, i pulled you over for speeding.." haha.. i thought it would be for another reason.

9. then when he came back to the window with the ticket, he goes, "so, this is a speeding ticket". right, i was curious as to what he would give me. i thought maybe a birthday gift?

10. he was a nice cop though,b ecause had he given me a ticket for the higher speed, it would have bumped it up to a 350 dollar fine and i woudl have had to come back for a court date. :)

11. the mountains were absolutely amazing and beautiful. what a display of the incredibly majesty and glory of God! There were some glaciers on a bunch of them as well which was quite nice.

12. sandy made me play the jack johnson cd ten million times and now i think i'm just about as sick of it as i could possibly be!! haha

13. stopped at wendy's for lunch and i saw a family with four kids going out for lunch to celebrate school being over. they were really cute and all prayed together before eating. it was just great to see their boldness in prayer in public and the example they were setting for their children.

14. i made it all the way to calgary on a little over one tank of gas!! yay mazda 6!

15. i was thankful for cruise conrol yesterday.. kieeps you going at a steady pace which is always nice.

16. got attacked by a grizzly bear at one stop. in golden. okay, so it was just a statue, but sitll it was kind of exciting. took some good pictures which i will perhaps post one day soon, if you're all lucky.

17. lucy (my gps system as i have named her) led us straight to lindie's house which was nice.

18. we decided to go to moxie's for dinner and lucy was telling us how to get there, but i guess she had some messed up directions and we ended up in the middle of a residential area.

19. since lucy led us astray we decided to go to chili's instead. had some southwestern eggrolls and they were pretty good, but the guy said they weren't spicy and they were, so i was a bit surprised at that.

20. sat, sandy' brother met us there and we went to starbucks afterwards to hang out.

21. starbucks here closes at ten! crazy, wish ours closed at ten!! well, when i was working there, now i dont' really mind if it was open later seeing that i'm just a customer now.

22. took a tour of sat's house. always interesting to see where people live.

23. went back to lindie's and she was there (always a plus since she wasn't the first time we arrived)

24. as soon as i was ready to go to bed, i was absolutely wired and couldn't stop talking.. haha.. i think sandy really enjoyed me at that point.

25. it was really cloudy here but still nice and warm. i liked it.

26. i would have updated this last night, but there was no internet signal.. so thank you all for your patience for the day.

27. can't believe i'm gone and i'm not working anymore.

28. i still get my starbucks discount everywhere which makes me excited!

29. wow, can't believe i made it to 29...