I went on my first real road trip! I cant believe I drove all of that time! Yeah we got lost sometimes. But we always got to where we were going. We met in Harrisburg. Not exactly half way but kind of. We stayed up way too late talking but it was like a year since we last saw eachother so it was fun catching up.
The drive on Sat was good. We stopped for gas every time it got to half a tank because we are girls and need to pee. Also they have a ton of bugs that smash into the windshield and it got very dirty very fast. They made colors on the windshield and it was really gross. We stopped for food in a town called Clendinden or something WV and they sucked. We couldnt find a thing so we got back on and stopped in another town after that and we figured we would go to McDonalds because it would be fast. Well let me just tell you that WV McDonalds suck. I dont know what their problem was, but no one would form a line and every one knew eachother and it was like an episode of the twilight zone. We spent like an hour there. It was bad. By that time we were tired so we decided to call the girl and tell her that we would be down the next day and decided that Lexington would be a good place to sleep.
It was a pretty cool city. No one knew of any cool things to do except some loser football guys and we didnt feel like following them to a crappy bar. We found a hotel but all they had were smoking rooms and we smelled. We discovered the greatness of Subway. (We ended up eating there 3 times during our trip) We drove around and took some pictures and went to a honkey tonk bar next to the hotel. They had a country cover band. They sucked. They were named Hazen Street and there is already a band named Hazen Street. We met a lady named Kathy who got stood up and proceeded to tell us her entire life story of abuse and how she owns a cleaning company and buys houses and sells them and blah blah blah. We took a picture with a cutout of Tim McGraw. The next morning we drove around looking for something to take pictures of and we found a cool fountain thing. And found one of those photo booth things and I proceeded to look like a dork in all of the pictures. Then we hit the road again.
I drove until they closed off 64 right before we hit TN. We were freaking out because we didnt know what to do but then I picked up my handy atlas and it told me that we could get on 60 then get back on 64. We found out where to get 60 from an inbred looking guy in KFC and lo and behold it took us right to 64. We are master navigators.
We found the girl's house after all of the confusing Nashville roads. We were total spaz's when we saw the Welcome to TN sign and the visitors center. I have a ton of brochures for Dollywood and the Salt and Pepper Shaker museum (how cool is that) The girl lived in a really nice house. 3 girls share it, and I dont know how they afford it. We got beds to sleep in and everything. The girl was a Jesus freak. Considering she works for a Christian media thing it was understandable. She took us to this thing called Freedom Experience or tour or something. It was like the movie Saved or something but less showy. Well our show I guess was less showy. And in a gym in Kentucky. They had a Christian band play called Inhabited and they were really good but its weird to think that all the "you's" in the songs mean God. They also had this guy named Brock Gill who is an illusionist who does all of his tricks and then talks about Jesus. For example, he got all chained up and put in a coffin filled with water and promptly escaped. Then he said that he was chained in sins and stuff and then he found Jesus. And had us pray and then coincindentally enough there were people with yellow shirts around ready to give you a video or something if Jesus talked to you while you were praying. A few people cried. I didnt get up to go talk to them because I didnt hear Jesus talk to me. Kristen was like, if they get up (the people we came with) we will have to get up too! But they didnt. But the girl works with Brock and he was actually very nice but I swear he looked at me like, I want to save that girl- she needs the word of Jesus. There were also BMX bikers called the Chaos somethings and they were all proud because one of the Baldwin brothers made a movie about them. I forget his name- but I thought he was the "bad" one who was on the Mole and Fear Factor and the 2nd crappy Flintstones movie that I never saw. They were all into sinning and stuff too (one of them even listened to heavy metal!) but then of course they found Jesus too. The one guy was pretty hot but on his last trick I think he messed up his leg pretty bad.
The best part of that night was meeting the Jesus freak's friends. They were from Kennet Square believe it or not. She was like, we are going to meet my friends and took us to the back country in TN or KY or something I forget where the heck we were. We drove up to serioulsy the most country shack I have ever seen. Broken car in front, toys, a dog and even a 3 year old without pants (just underwear) running around outside. It was odd. The guy's name is Jerimiah and the girl's name was.... Rainbow! The little boy was the cutest tho, and smart as a whip. As soon as we got out of the car he was like, Allison, it looks like you've brought new friends to my house! His name was Hesikiah? I have no idea how to spell that. Then we met the CUTEST BABY IN THE WORLD. I hope my kid turns out like this. She was named Jemimah. She was all cuddly and was trying to talk to me and so cute. The best baby ever. I just couldnt believe her name was Jemimah. Poor kid. But she is named after the bible and Rainbow prayed for Jesus to tell her what to name her and she fought with Jesus about the name Jemimah but eventually agreed to name the kid that. Jesus won. They came with us to the thing and we got Chinese food along the way to eat in the line which is very hard to do. It is hot and Chinese is not a very on the go type of food. The people there must have been hungry because they kept looking at us like they were starving. I wanted to share it with them or something but threw it away after awhile. I got too many looks.
But it was interesting and did get us talking about God later on. And I quite enjoyed the ping pong trick Brock did. He made them disappear into his mouth and then talked funny and it was pretty hilarious. He then spit them into the crowd. Ew.
The next day was Kristen's interview. Which I went to! So that was pretty cool. We only got off on the wrong side of the road but we then again found our way. The place she was interviewing for was in the owner's house. It was fun, she took us to lunch and told us about the business. Such a business I want to get into. I bet Kristen got the job- she did really good. Except for introducing herself as Rick to Rick. That was funny but it sounded like Hi Rick instead of I'm Rick. Funny! They gave us tons of Veggie Tales stickers and Christian band CD's. I got Rachel Lampa so that was pretty cool. We agreed to decide if any of them were good and copy them for each other if they are.
That night was a nightmare. We decided we wanted to venture to the city to try and do something. But the girl had to work so we were on our own with her crappy directions. We wanted to see the Opry because duh it's Nashville. So they gave us directions and they included a "boulder" and stuff. It is dark! You cant see a boulder in the dark! We found the mall and could not find a bathroom and we had to pee and we were thirsty and we finally found a security gaurd guy who pointed us there. We saw the Opry hotel and it was cool because it has like a forest inside. Cool, but we wanted to see some live music or something. Then we wanted to go to Rockettown, a skate park and the directions were messed up. We were so out of town I think we were headed to Kentucky. We finally got fed up and found our way back. We even called the girl and told her we were lost but we got her voice mail which she didnt check. So that night kind of sucked. Then it stormed all crazy and we barely slept. But we had a journey to make.
We decided that we couldnt do the trip all in one day, so we chose to go to DC for a day. Turns out Kristen's ex? boyfriend lives in Annandale. So we called him and asked to crash on the floor. We drove all day and got there and he wasnt around. He refused to come home and let us in! So we waited and waited and played games like "We're going to Kentucky and I am taking an atlas, book about Jesus, cookies..." And eventually we went up and his roommate was home and let us in. We planned our trip to DC with him and eventually her boy came in. I blew up the air mattress and went to bed. The next day when we were leaving his tub like fell apart. It was hilarious.
So then we were off to DC. The directions were good, but the signs for the metro are LITTLE. I just used caps and that is probably bigger than the sign. We drove around and around and finally found a parking spot. Then came the matter of getting ticket. We were so confused! Why cant you just buy one from a person? It is all machines. Finally the nice? lady helped us with our tickets. And off we went to the Smithsonian. That was cool. Except our feet hurt! So we went to 2 museums because it takes a lot of time and we had to get going. So we got on the train. And then we didnt know we had to get on a different one. So we found some military guy who told us what to do. And we finally got on the road. DC traffic is nuts. But we got to go in the HOV lane and fly by everyone else. Yay! Then we didnt really have directions to my Dad's house so we called him and he helped us in.
The next day was Kristen's interview. Which I went to! So that was pretty cool. We only got off on the wrong side of the road but we then again found our way. The place she was interviewing for was in the owner's house. It was fun, she took us to lunch and told us about the business. Such a business I want to get into. I bet Kristen got the job- she did really good. Except for introducing herself as Rick to Rick. That was funny but it sounded like Hi Rick instead of I'm Rick. Funny! They gave us tons of Veggie Tales stickers and Christian band CD's. I got Rachel Lampa so that was pretty cool. We agreed to decide if any of them were good and copy them for each other if they are.
That night was a nightmare. We decided we wanted to venture to the city to try and do something. But the girl had to work so we were on our own with her crappy directions. We wanted to see the Opry because duh it's Nashville. So they gave us directions and they included a "boulder" and stuff. It is dark! You cant see a boulder in the dark! We found the mall and could not find a bathroom and we had to pee and we were thirsty and we finally found a security gaurd guy who pointed us there. We saw the Opry hotel and it was cool because it has like a forest inside. Cool, but we wanted to see some live music or something. Then we wanted to go to Rockettown, a skate park and the directions were messed up. We were so out of town I think we were headed to Kentucky. We finally got fed up and found our way back. We even called the girl and told her we were lost but we got her voice mail which she didnt check. So that night kind of sucked. Then it stormed all crazy and we barely slept. But we had a journey to make.
We decided that we couldnt do the trip all in one day, so we chose to go to DC for a day. Turns out Kristen's ex? boyfriend lives in Annandale. So we called him and asked to crash on the floor. We drove all day and got there and he wasnt around. He refused to come home and let us in! So we waited and waited and played games like "We're going to Kentucky and I am taking an atlas, book about Jesus, cookies..." And eventually we went up and his roommate was home and let us in. We planned our trip to DC with him and eventually her boy came in. I blew up the air mattress and went to bed. The next day when we were leaving his tub like fell apart. It was hilarious.
So then we were off to DC. The directions were good, but the signs for the metro are LITTLE. I just used caps and that is probably bigger than the sign. We drove around and around and finally found a parking spot. Then came the matter of getting ticket. We were so confused! Why cant you just buy one from a person? It is all machines. Finally the nice? lady helped us with our tickets. And off we went to the Smithsonian. That was cool. Except our feet hurt! So we went to 2 museums because it takes a lot of time and we had to get going. So we got on the train. And then we didnt know we had to get on a different one. So we found some military guy who told us what to do. And we finally got on the road. DC traffic is nuts. But we got to go in the HOV lane and fly by everyone else. Yay! Then we didnt really have directions to my Dad's house so we called him and he helped us in.
We got to Mechanicsburg and parted ways. It was really fun and we are still friends after 5 days on the road! I got turned around trying to find the turnpike, but got myself home in the freaky downpour rains. I didnt even unpack until today because I was so pooped.
Well that was my trip! On to NYC next!
Well that was my trip! On to NYC next!