Do you know how nice it is to wake up, the sun is shining, wait no, the sun isn't shining because I couldn't sleep. So I read for most of the night actually I read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juilet. I love that story! Today we went on a scenic drive, really it was drive a couple 100 feet, stop, get out of the car, take a picture, and then get back in the car. This happened about 20 times. Do you feel my pain! Since we are going to be at Indigo Bluffs we were able to rent a car. That's how we were driving around today. We took a mile and a half long hike on the dunes. Sleeping Bear Dunes. It was really pretty and cool. A lot of people expect Michigan to be a lot like Detroit, and the city. But it's not, it is so pretty and not busy at all. There are cherry farms, wineries, vine yards, small family grocery stores, and there isn't a McDonalds in sight! We went back to the RV resort and my parents took a nap. BORING! Then we watched "While You Were Sleeping" with Sandra Bullock. It was so funny.
Well I've got to go to bed!
Ali
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Day 10 of the RV trip. Monday the 11
Day 8 of the RV trip. Saturday the 9th.
So what did I do today. Hmmm...
I woke up at 11:30, got on my swim suit, put the leashes on the dogs, remembered that I had to eat breakfast, took the dogs out, and then ate breakfast, well lunch. I decided that I wanted to go to the beach, just to keep my parents out of my hair. I took bella with me and as I'm walking down the dirt road that leads to it this kid like literally almost runs me over with his bike. He pretty much hung out with me the whole day. Now I know that this isn't nice, but he was weird, compared to me. Don't get me wrong, he was nice and all. But we are just acquaintances or
f r i e n d s. It ended up that his sister, him, and I. His names Garrett, his sister's name is Gabbie/gabby. idk. We built this HUGE sand castle that was totally frickin awesome. Complete with a moat and all that stuff. We even found clay that didn't absorb water, so we used that for the moat too. When we were done Gabbie/Gabby and I rode our bikes around the camp. I hardly even almost recked once! (twice) I painted her nails.... and Garrett's too. We went for another bike ride and when we got to the beach. Someone had completely flattened our entire sand castle. They even took the time to seperate the rocks into piles, they buried the clay, and then the filled in the moat! They even had the nerve to build a sand castle right next to it! But hey karma will get them one day!
Well, we are leaving tomorrow for indigo bluffs. Can't wait...
Night,
Ali
I woke up at 11:30, got on my swim suit, put the leashes on the dogs, remembered that I had to eat breakfast, took the dogs out, and then ate breakfast, well lunch. I decided that I wanted to go to the beach, just to keep my parents out of my hair. I took bella with me and as I'm walking down the dirt road that leads to it this kid like literally almost runs me over with his bike. He pretty much hung out with me the whole day. Now I know that this isn't nice, but he was weird, compared to me. Don't get me wrong, he was nice and all. But we are just acquaintances or
f r i e n d s. It ended up that his sister, him, and I. His names Garrett, his sister's name is Gabbie/gabby. idk. We built this HUGE sand castle that was totally frickin awesome. Complete with a moat and all that stuff. We even found clay that didn't absorb water, so we used that for the moat too. When we were done Gabbie/Gabby and I rode our bikes around the camp. I hardly even almost recked once! (twice) I painted her nails.... and Garrett's too. We went for another bike ride and when we got to the beach. Someone had completely flattened our entire sand castle. They even took the time to seperate the rocks into piles, they buried the clay, and then the filled in the moat! They even had the nerve to build a sand castle right next to it! But hey karma will get them one day!
Well, we are leaving tomorrow for indigo bluffs. Can't wait...
Night,
Ali
The 7th day of the RV trip. July 8th. Posted on July 25
Wow! I haven't updated my blog in like.... well a long time. I'm not good at counting. So we went back into Mackinaw City, my dad wanted another pocket knife. His wasn't sharp enough because he decided that he would take up whittiling for a hobby. So not embarrassing. I wanted the knew Pretty Little Liars book "Twisted." But they were sold out! Bummer. We walked around a little bit and then came back to the camp.
I'm sorry that this post is so short, but I can't really remember what we did.
I'm sorry that this post is so short, but I can't really remember what we did.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Day 6 of the RV ("un"reasonable vehicle) I think thats spelled wrong.
Yay! I'm finally caught up to date on my RV trip (punishment) blog. So todhe ay we went to Mackinaw Island. We took the ferry, along with like 300 other people who decided too, which was actually leaving at 11 (on the hour) not 11:30 like my mom had thought. We didn't have to walk though! We got a shuttle to take us there! We got on and it took off right away. But not before blowing it's horn and scaring the crap out of Mia. Ha Ha. It was about a 10 to 15 minute ride, and was very nice. We got to the dock and got off. What did you think we would do, stay on? We imediatley went to the carriage ride tours of the island. It was really fun. We saw the Grand Hotel, (BORING) we saw most of the island, and we went to a butterfly museum. Very pretty. I got some good pictures. Then we got back on another carriage and went through the national park. Whas really funny is that even if you pick a blade of grass you were fined 50 dollars. The state flower or rarer flowers like orchids were a 500 dollar fine. The driver told us about the time when a little girl picked some flowers and it was a 1500 dollar fine. The look on her mothers face, though, priceless. We continued on and then we saw some people riding on horses. Well you could tell right away from looking at this girl that she had no clue how to ride a horse. (Blonde, Flip Flops, short shorts, blonde... not to be stereotypical) (She probably would have gotten on backwards if they hadn't helped her up, I'm pretty sure!) Well she was leaning so far back in the saddle that she was almost laying down. Then her horse trots over to the grass away from the group of 3, and starts kneeling down on his front legs, (so he's on his knees) She would of tipped forward if she wasn't leaning back so far. Then he got up, and runs her into a bush, stays there for a couple minutes, then starts eating grass. It was so funny. Finally he prances back over to the group like nothing had happened. It was hilarious. We finished the tour and I went to Star Bucks and got a Mocha Coconut Frapachino, (I think I spelled that wrong) It was really good. Then we went, boarded the ferry again, and caught the shuttle bus to go back to the RV. I ended up reading. But it got boring so I took out my guitar and played for a long time, while mom went to walk bella and mia to the beach. My dad was outside whittling. lol. When my mom came back to walk Biscotti I went with her. But Biscotti wouldn't come so we went by ourselves, and I ended up finding a fossil. (we had already found a couple in the past days but this one had a few) When we returned I went to the little camp store for some fire starter and built the fire! Finally girl scouts has kinda payed off. We made s'mores, and I sat at the picnic table updating my blog, while fighting of misquitoes. They're annoying little buggers. I'm so funny ha ha.... Nevermind. But it's time to go to bed, well more or less I'll probably read until 12.
Night! Don't let the misquitoes bite!
Ali
Night! Don't let the misquitoes bite!
Ali
Day 5 of the not so good RV trip
How many of you like walking, and I know that you are thinking what a stupid question. We have to walk everywhere! Well I meant, because we don't have a car thats tow- able with us, we have to walk everywhere. Not that I mind because we didn't leave the camp ground much. Well one of the people at camp said that they had walked to Mackinaw city because it was only a mile down the road. So we got up, got ready, turned on the air conditioning for the dogs, we prayed that the dogs wouldn't bark all day.... they did, and headed off down the road. Lets just say that I hate gym class even more. We passed about 50, no lie, hotels, motels, and inns on the way before we got to the little shops. Well, they have a ton, seriously, of fudge shops. They are like the banks and pharmacy's that are on every street corner in Pittsburgh. But we did get some fudge and it was really good. We went around a little more, we didn't buy much. But I did get two t-shirts. One that says "Professional Marshmallow roaster" on the back, and another that says "Camping Ninja" on the back too. I know a little corny, but I have to brag, I make pretty killer s'mores.
Caio, Salut, and Toodles!
Ali
Caio, Salut, and Toodles!
Ali
Fourth Day! July 5, 2011 (just cause theres an exclamation point doesn't mean I'm happy)
Hmmm. I've never been good with introductions. Lets leave it with that.
So its day 4 of torture. Since we are at the camp until Saturday, we didn't have to drive. So I got to sleep in until lunch. My mom and I went down to the beach, I don't have a reason why, so don't ask. It was acctually really nice and hot outside. So I wasn't that cold. The water was pretty and a really comfortable. Until you got up to your shins. Then it got cold. I started looking around the beach where the water meets the sand, and there were a ton of tiny rocks that were really colorful! I took those to add to my collection, I even found sea glass. Only two pieces, but I think that thats still really cool. While my mom and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of being on the beach alone these crazy boys came in their swim trunks and jumped in the water so it was over their heads. Okay they didn't jump, they had to squat because the water is very shallow, even far out. They didn't even seem cold! My mom even asked one of them what the water temperature was. He said 56 degrees. I have finally realized that there are people in this world that are much crazier than me. I read like 6 more books and we went for a couple more walks on the beach. Thats really all. Bye!
So its day 4 of torture. Since we are at the camp until Saturday, we didn't have to drive. So I got to sleep in until lunch. My mom and I went down to the beach, I don't have a reason why, so don't ask. It was acctually really nice and hot outside. So I wasn't that cold. The water was pretty and a really comfortable. Until you got up to your shins. Then it got cold. I started looking around the beach where the water meets the sand, and there were a ton of tiny rocks that were really colorful! I took those to add to my collection, I even found sea glass. Only two pieces, but I think that thats still really cool. While my mom and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of being on the beach alone these crazy boys came in their swim trunks and jumped in the water so it was over their heads. Okay they didn't jump, they had to squat because the water is very shallow, even far out. They didn't even seem cold! My mom even asked one of them what the water temperature was. He said 56 degrees. I have finally realized that there are people in this world that are much crazier than me. I read like 6 more books and we went for a couple more walks on the beach. Thats really all. Bye!
Third Day, 3 days late (RV)
First I want to appologize for appologize being spelled wrong and for not updating my blog for 3 days! Now that that's settled.
Day 3: Really theres nothing to say. We got to the Tee Pee camp in Mackinaw City around 3? I can't remember. It's been to long.... wow don't I sound like my mother..... Any way we really just took a walk down to the small beach on lake Huron. Whats funny is that it looks like an ocean, but is so much more calmer. Another difference is that there are stones and rocks, instead of shells! It's so wierd, but we found some pretty cool ones! Since we got there on the Fourth of July, they had a HUGE firework show. I think in like 3 different places on the lake. But the main part was sent off from the bridge. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's like 5 miles long. We went the beach with 2 chairs, Only 2! Yes, I wanted to bring a beach towel, but my mom "forgot" and I had to sit on my jacket that I brought to keep me warm. We waited and waited on the beach with other people spread out watching the measly fireworks that came every five minutes. The misquitoes were eating us alive, metaphorically speaking. They would of had to of been pretty big to do that. It was ten o'clock and the fireworks still haden't started. I heard someone say that they must of been low on money because there weren't many fireworks. We finally had had enough with the misquitoes because I was literally spazzing out and swatting every time I saw something move. I guess I was embarrassing my parents..... again. I think I have a phobia, a serious one, of, can you guess, of bugs. It's so bad that sometimes if I see a couple bugs I'll feels them "crawling" on me. But they aren't. Any way, we gathered up our stuff and were heading back to the RV when the show started it was really amazing and really pretty, and it lasted very long. I got some pictures, but again I'm not sure, at all, how to load them onto this computer. The only unfortionate thing was that they didn't have a bonfire that night and I was really looking forward to having s'mores. So we made them over our stove. Unfortionatley I dropped mine in the dog food and it got hair all over it. I was so upset that I couldn't even make another one, and my mom kept offering to make me one. But I was in my mood and I felt like fate totally hated me... it seems like it always does. But don't feel bad for me I had it for breakfast. Healthy!
I hope you have forgiven me for being so busy, NOT, that I wasn't able to updated my blog!
Day 3: Really theres nothing to say. We got to the Tee Pee camp in Mackinaw City around 3? I can't remember. It's been to long.... wow don't I sound like my mother..... Any way we really just took a walk down to the small beach on lake Huron. Whats funny is that it looks like an ocean, but is so much more calmer. Another difference is that there are stones and rocks, instead of shells! It's so wierd, but we found some pretty cool ones! Since we got there on the Fourth of July, they had a HUGE firework show. I think in like 3 different places on the lake. But the main part was sent off from the bridge. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's like 5 miles long. We went the beach with 2 chairs, Only 2! Yes, I wanted to bring a beach towel, but my mom "forgot" and I had to sit on my jacket that I brought to keep me warm. We waited and waited on the beach with other people spread out watching the measly fireworks that came every five minutes. The misquitoes were eating us alive, metaphorically speaking. They would of had to of been pretty big to do that. It was ten o'clock and the fireworks still haden't started. I heard someone say that they must of been low on money because there weren't many fireworks. We finally had had enough with the misquitoes because I was literally spazzing out and swatting every time I saw something move. I guess I was embarrassing my parents..... again. I think I have a phobia, a serious one, of, can you guess, of bugs. It's so bad that sometimes if I see a couple bugs I'll feels them "crawling" on me. But they aren't. Any way, we gathered up our stuff and were heading back to the RV when the show started it was really amazing and really pretty, and it lasted very long. I got some pictures, but again I'm not sure, at all, how to load them onto this computer. The only unfortionate thing was that they didn't have a bonfire that night and I was really looking forward to having s'mores. So we made them over our stove. Unfortionatley I dropped mine in the dog food and it got hair all over it. I was so upset that I couldn't even make another one, and my mom kept offering to make me one. But I was in my mood and I felt like fate totally hated me... it seems like it always does. But don't feel bad for me I had it for breakfast. Healthy!
I hope you have forgiven me for being so busy, NOT, that I wasn't able to updated my blog!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Second Day of torture. (RV)
There are no adjectives to describe today. It could be a natural disaster, but I'm pretty positive, (negative) that the stuff that happened isn't natural at all. I hope your not to traumatized by this post. Good luck!
So the camp we stayed at last night was very outdoorsy. We left at, well I'm not sure when we left. So we went to get deisel fuel at a gas station, we didn't fit so we had to go to another. Well when we get there just randomly, the sliding glass door that covers the door knobs on the main door just totally shatters. I'm starting to think this thing is haunted. I think I have really bad luck with glass, first my phone, then the door, whats next. Okay, so it's 3:28 right now, and I think we are lost. Why, You ask? Maybe it's because we just pulled off to the side of the road right next to a dam with a sign that says, "When horn sounds, water level rises suddenly." Nothing to worry about. Especially when theres a sign that says "Stay back 150 feet", and we are not even 20 feet from it. Ya, it's perfectly safe..... What makes it even more funny is that we were following the GPS. What's up with that. Map Quest and GPS's can't be trusted. Now my moms complaining about how GPS's and Map Quest sucks. LOL. "You'd think these things would work from the amount of money we spent on them!" "These things suck!" I love you mom. Now she's talking back to it. Sometimes she amazes me really. We are also trying to figure out the time. Our phones say 3:35 but the GPS says 2 something. My dad thought we had a time change. Hello!!! We are in Michigan. It's on the same side as Pennsylvania. I know where I got my smarts from.
Another problem is that this stupid window next to me won't shut, it keeps on sliding open. Even with the lock on it. Yes, it is locked.... I think. And Someone... dad..... keeps forgetting to shut and latch the doors. So every time we go around a bend or a bump I hear. "BANG CRASH BOOM, ALI! SHUT THE DOOR!" Your welcome mommy dearest, I would love to shut the door even though I didn't even leave it open. Wow, I'm rude. I don't know where we are right now but I guess we aren't lost yet because we are driving, and my parents aren't fighting. 3:41 I wouldn't recomend going over train tracks in an RV. It feels like your on a plane with the worst turbulence ever recorded in history, throw in a mixer and turn it on to full speed, and throw in a couple tornadoes. Sounds like Fun. Seriously I think that if everything in the Rv wasn't like atttached to the floor and walls. We would of been buried alive, but we would of been dead. Wait, that doesn't make any sense. Oh well. Nothing interesting is happening now. So I'll probably put up another post later on to finish off day two.
Pray for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the camp we stayed at last night was very outdoorsy. We left at, well I'm not sure when we left. So we went to get deisel fuel at a gas station, we didn't fit so we had to go to another. Well when we get there just randomly, the sliding glass door that covers the door knobs on the main door just totally shatters. I'm starting to think this thing is haunted. I think I have really bad luck with glass, first my phone, then the door, whats next. Okay, so it's 3:28 right now, and I think we are lost. Why, You ask? Maybe it's because we just pulled off to the side of the road right next to a dam with a sign that says, "When horn sounds, water level rises suddenly." Nothing to worry about. Especially when theres a sign that says "Stay back 150 feet", and we are not even 20 feet from it. Ya, it's perfectly safe..... What makes it even more funny is that we were following the GPS. What's up with that. Map Quest and GPS's can't be trusted. Now my moms complaining about how GPS's and Map Quest sucks. LOL. "You'd think these things would work from the amount of money we spent on them!" "These things suck!" I love you mom. Now she's talking back to it. Sometimes she amazes me really. We are also trying to figure out the time. Our phones say 3:35 but the GPS says 2 something. My dad thought we had a time change. Hello!!! We are in Michigan. It's on the same side as Pennsylvania. I know where I got my smarts from.
Another problem is that this stupid window next to me won't shut, it keeps on sliding open. Even with the lock on it. Yes, it is locked.... I think. And Someone... dad..... keeps forgetting to shut and latch the doors. So every time we go around a bend or a bump I hear. "BANG CRASH BOOM, ALI! SHUT THE DOOR!" Your welcome mommy dearest, I would love to shut the door even though I didn't even leave it open. Wow, I'm rude. I don't know where we are right now but I guess we aren't lost yet because we are driving, and my parents aren't fighting. 3:41 I wouldn't recomend going over train tracks in an RV. It feels like your on a plane with the worst turbulence ever recorded in history, throw in a mixer and turn it on to full speed, and throw in a couple tornadoes. Sounds like Fun. Seriously I think that if everything in the Rv wasn't like atttached to the floor and walls. We would of been buried alive, but we would of been dead. Wait, that doesn't make any sense. Oh well. Nothing interesting is happening now. So I'll probably put up another post later on to finish off day two.
Pray for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Road Trip....... Day 1.
........ Hmmmm..... How do I put this nicely? It was an... adventure...? Before I tell you about the actual trip let me tell you about the morning. So, we were supposed to leave at 11 or 11:30, my mom and I were ready at 8 o'clock. Dad wasn't. He still needed to download the GPS update, which didn't work at first, but with my dads "excellent" skill with technology, it took about an hour and a half to complete. But wait I'm not done yet, theres still more.... that's a surprise. The next problem is that the bike rack hitch that was for our car doesn't fit on RV's. Hmmmm I wonder why? So dad had to run out to 1 bike store, an auto part store, and target. When none of those places he went to had it. He had to call another bike store, who told him to go to U-Haul Luckily U-Haul had it. Then he had to attach the bike rack to the RV, get the pedals off of the 3 bikes, get them onto the bike rack, and secure them. This process took about, maybe an hour. Well by then my mom was almost ready to throw a full blown hissy fit. What makes it worse is that we were leaving that day,(Saturday) and we still didn't have a place to stay that night or Sunday! By then my mom was kinda fed up, well not kinda, really fed up. So she took charge and booked us 2 places to stay, one for Saturday, and one for Sunday, in like 10 minutes. If we hadn't of been able to book a place, we would of had to leave on Sunday. But all of our stuff is in the RV. We took pity on my dad so we let him get a shower, we had a quick lunch, put the dogs in the RV, and took off at 2:10. Which we consider a lucky number because it's our address, or so we thought.
I'm hunkered down as far as I could get in the seat reading my second book that day. (My parents said no more because I'll have them done in the first week) We get onto the turn pike, and who would of guessed, when we got to the turn pike tool booth, dad hits the right mirror on the side of the building. Hilarious. We then had to pull over on the side of the road, where we spent about 15 minutes trying to re-adjust it. My dad had me sit in the drivers seat to tell him if it was in the right place when he was adjusting it. I've never drove a car before, I'm only 13, so I had no idea what was going on. I have to admit I threw a little bit of a hissy fit my self.
But other than that everything was fine the rest of the trip. Just kidding. There is so much more. So after we got back on the turn pike, we followed my moms map quest directions to a T. Can you guess what happens next. Well it turns out that they were wrong. We were in the middle of NO WHERE, well somewhere in Michigan, I think, when we realized that we couldn't find the camp. Of course my mom calls for directions, (men never admit they are lost) and we find out that we are like 80 miles away from where we are supposed to be. (okay that might be a slight exaggeration, like 40) We eventually get there where we check in. My mom gets out of the car when we get to the lot, but I had to stay in there with dad while he was pulling in. A guy who was in the front office when we checked in came and helped dad back in. Well we couldn't make the swing into the lot 58 so we just took 59. Ha Ha. When we got out he asked us if we were the one from Pittsburgh. They probably had a pool going to see how many times we got lost, which is confidential information, (around15) and about how much help we needed pulling in. So embarrassing.
But in the end God gave us a beautiful sunset, that I got pictures of, to let us know that everythings going to be okay, ha He's hilarious, and that everythings planned.
Can't wait for tomorrow! NOT. Yesterday we got in really late, because of all the driving around in circles. That's why I had to post the first day on Sunday.
I'm hunkered down as far as I could get in the seat reading my second book that day. (My parents said no more because I'll have them done in the first week) We get onto the turn pike, and who would of guessed, when we got to the turn pike tool booth, dad hits the right mirror on the side of the building. Hilarious. We then had to pull over on the side of the road, where we spent about 15 minutes trying to re-adjust it. My dad had me sit in the drivers seat to tell him if it was in the right place when he was adjusting it. I've never drove a car before, I'm only 13, so I had no idea what was going on. I have to admit I threw a little bit of a hissy fit my self.
But other than that everything was fine the rest of the trip. Just kidding. There is so much more. So after we got back on the turn pike, we followed my moms map quest directions to a T. Can you guess what happens next. Well it turns out that they were wrong. We were in the middle of NO WHERE, well somewhere in Michigan, I think, when we realized that we couldn't find the camp. Of course my mom calls for directions, (men never admit they are lost) and we find out that we are like 80 miles away from where we are supposed to be. (okay that might be a slight exaggeration, like 40) We eventually get there where we check in. My mom gets out of the car when we get to the lot, but I had to stay in there with dad while he was pulling in. A guy who was in the front office when we checked in came and helped dad back in. Well we couldn't make the swing into the lot 58 so we just took 59. Ha Ha. When we got out he asked us if we were the one from Pittsburgh. They probably had a pool going to see how many times we got lost, which is confidential information, (around15) and about how much help we needed pulling in. So embarrassing.
But in the end God gave us a beautiful sunset, that I got pictures of, to let us know that everythings going to be okay, ha He's hilarious, and that everythings planned.
Can't wait for tomorrow! NOT. Yesterday we got in really late, because of all the driving around in circles. That's why I had to post the first day on Sunday.
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