........ 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.
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