Back East

I left the lovely Bend, Oregon one week ago. So far I've been to the National Museum of American History, Arlington National Cemetery, the Marine Corps Memorial, Mount Vernon, and Bull Run (Manassas). The cemetery is enormous; thousands of people are buried there. We saw JFK and his family's graves. Mount Vernon is where George Washington lived. They keep his mansion restored and we learned a lot about him...but the main thing I remember is that he didn't have wooden teeth. There were supposed to be reenactments at Bull Run with musket firings and other Civil War stuff but it was all cancelled because of the heat. A heat wave is coming east from the mid-west and every day has been extremely hot. Today it got above 100 degrees. Jake keeps saying how 22 people have already died in the mid-west because of it. But it was like 110 over there. Anyway, hehe...I'm talking about the weather. Tomorrow morning (this morning; it's past 1 AM here) we're going to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. It's not a garden; it's an amusement park. :) On Sunday we're going to Colonial Williamsburg. There are a whole bunch of actors and they're all in character in colonial times and it's all set up that way. It should be cool. Next weekend we're going to Philadelphia, and the weekend after that we're going to NEW YORK!!! I'm so excited!!!! We'll be there for a few days and then we're going to Boston to visit my aunt and uncle for a few days. When I see all of this on a calendar it makes this time I have here seem much shorter. When I get back, I'll be home for a few days and then I'm going to Seattle. It's going to be difficult to just sit down and do those summer reading assignments...Oh well. This will be awesome. :)

Leaving soon...

It was raining at the mountain the last couple of days so I was called off from work. Since I got my food-handler's card, they had me running food to people as well as dish-washing. Now I'm done 'til the winter season. I am leaving for Virginia on Friday and I'm going to miss everyone so dearly. I'm going to write so many letters. Right now I'm just trying to have a positive attitude and to not get worked up about missing everyone. At this point, the only things left on my summer list to do are summer reading and shopping.

I'm kind of melancholy right now and having writer's block...