Wednesday 7/20, I got up around 7:45 and headed over to Kassie’s, got ready over there and then the three of us girls rolled up to Everett to pick up Rose. We stopped at the Safeway for breakfast and I asked the girls to guess which door the bakery was by and Aubrie was right so I said that she was more ghetto cause she guessed correctly and Safeway is kind of ghetto and since she knows her way around one, she won the most ghetto-ness title. We picked up some stuff, ate it in the car and then drove over to Rose’s. Loaded up all of her stuff including the peach cobbler which Aubrie proceeded to spill the juices all over her lap and all over the towel cause it was supposed to lay flat. So we made it over to Plain in record time, I think it was just under 2 hours, but that was also from Everett, so who knows if we really made any time. Morey was there and Dad was busy working, Mom had gone into town and didn’t come back for 2.5 hours so I tried to entertain Rose and we talked about how weird Tom and Katie are and how you can’t see any of the clothes that are advertised in “W” cause of the “arty” photography. Morey started talking about Bangladesh and how Mark is going there for the Peace Corps and all of this other stuff so I just walked away and went upstairs and by the time I came back down he had left. Finally Mom got there so I went to hang out with Aubrie and Kim and helped them find some rope to tie the intertubes together so they could hang out in the river without effort. After that we spent time setting up the trampoline and put on Dolour to try to lure out the neighbor boys, you know, with Shane’s sweet voice, but it didn’t work. So we tried the Killers, but that didn’t work either. Finally we went inside and did some stuff and then eventually Aunt Heidi and Hailey showed up in Heidi’s new Mercedes and then Uncle Brad showed up a little while later with erect nipples to which Hailey and I joked that he gets really excited when he gets the trailer right up close to the deck, as well as other nipple jokes that I won’t go into here. We finally had dinner: chicken and rice pilaf and other assorted sides, most importantly Auntie Heidi’s delicious sesame salad. Then we had Rose’s cobbler for dessert. I can’t remember what else we did that night, but I’m pretty sure we just hung out around the fire and talked and maybe tried to spy on the neighbors, oh that’s what it was, Aubrie was trying to look at them with the binoculars but one of them looked over and saw her, so Kim was like “Look at that chipmunk Aubrie!” to cover Aubrie’s ass, but I’m doubting it worked. All the girls slept up in the loft that night.

Tuesday 7/19, Was a pain in the ass cause I had to get my tire checked out. I went by to see when Costco opened but it wasn’t until later so I got to work and told Peggy and Jim of my troubles and Jim said he would help me out with Costco if I needed to. So I made a bunch of calls and no one had my tires and everyone said they would have to order them, except for Discount, they said that they had one tire, but if I came in they could put a loaner on and order my tires so that I could get back over the mountains the next day. So after work (I left at 4:30) I went straight there and the guy said that I need to replace all four of them and that they didn’t have a loaner that would fit my car so I would have to buy all 4 of another tire, so I did that, but Dad got real snippy and wanted me to demand all of these things, but finally we settled and I was waiting for them to put them on my car and at one point I glanced up and they guy who was helping me and another guy were looking at me and whispering, I think it’s cause Dad was being such a hard ass. When I got off the phone with him the guy said “Let me guess, you’re an only child” I was like, ummm…nope. So anyway, I got out of there and went to pick up my new glasses cause I had received a call while in N. Dakota that they were done…did that then went home and packed. Headed over to B’s to spend the night and made arrangements with the girls to pick them up in the morning by 8:00 or something. So B and I went for a long walk and I told him about my trip and we talked about various other things while walking the streets, and he asked me if I wanted to go into the Erotic Bakery, but I didn’t want to so we kept walking. Went to bed kind of early cause he had to get up early the next morning.