Three States in ONE day! Aaahhh...It was a long day, but we stopped a lot. When we hit Kansas we saw church's at every exit so we thought we would stop at one. It turned out to be a Catholic church, very pretty and started in 1900's Well six exits letter and all within a few miles of each other were HUGE Catholic church's. I will post more about that in a different post.
On that note, I am tired. The trip is coming to an end. Mom and I will spend the day shopping in this little town in Kansas City that we love!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Pictures
We left San Francisco just in time....Friday morning the very strange people started to arrive. Went and saw Momma's brothers friend, then stayed last night in Elko UT, and now we are about an our outside of Denver, heading towards Denver for maybe a short stop then onward to Kansas City!
This pictures above are just a few randoms ones from the trip. I hopefully will have more!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Hello Bobby and Timmy!
Well, my sweet VERY catholic and VERY conservative mother AND me made it into San Francisco on the bestess weekend EVER! Its Gay Pride Weekend!!!!!
We are wide eyed and unable to believe what we are seeing, but we are grateful to be leaving early tomorrow and heading back EAST! With a few stops on the way of course! All we can do is pray for them!
We have seen a lot, and done a LOT and are VERY tired and worn out from this huge city and ready to hit the road again ("on the road again") Next city to come, SALT LAKE. And boy this should be fun.
I will post pictures when I am in a place that has good internet again!
I MISS HOME!
We are wide eyed and unable to believe what we are seeing, but we are grateful to be leaving early tomorrow and heading back EAST! With a few stops on the way of course! All we can do is pray for them!
We have seen a lot, and done a LOT and are VERY tired and worn out from this huge city and ready to hit the road again ("on the road again") Next city to come, SALT LAKE. And boy this should be fun.
I will post pictures when I am in a place that has good internet again!
I MISS HOME!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Lets get down and DIRTY!
Ok, time to catch up to today!
Monday we woke up got packed and headed out YET again! up highway one. Why? Because even though its only five hours to San Francisco, we like to take the LONG way....the SLOW way......So, highway one it is, and boy it was fun! (and long) The coast here is beautiful....But NOT the east coast! There are lots of farms and more farms....oh look ANOTHER FARM! but its neat to see where our salads come from.
THE DAY CAME TO AN END! WHAT!? Yep, five hours, right? HA! We were still over two hundred miles from San Francisco, and not a beach in site. Ok, so there were beachs, and tons of it. But it was FREEZING, and we had to back track because of the fires that were on highway one....Crazy I know, but its amazing how God works sometimes. Changing our plans.....Gosh! Next time I will phone ahead to the big man upstairs....haha.
It really wasnt that bad. We stayed in a littler town called Sansimeon. Very sweet and low key. We got some good sleep, still cold, but we are having fun....right?
Day Four: Lets try for the beach outside of San Francisco..............Huh?
Bad IDEA! It just got colder, and the mountains got taller, and the drop off was AMAZING! Driving through 101 to get back to highway one was neat, again. More SALADS! We also stopped randomly at a mission. One of the oldest, actually number 16th in line of about 20 something missions here in California. It was so cool. Sad though because the building just suffered a HUGE earth quake last week, and the OLD chapel is falling apart. They say it may take upto five years to get it where people can go in it again....yikes! ONWARD! More highway one, and one more mission....(two) This one would be a doosy! And a stop into the ARMY BASE! Well, it was a rough one. We were stopped at the gate and asked for ID's from both of us, prrof of car insurance, and a bunch of other papers. Well my wonderful mother had all these papers in random spots in the car and the guys nearly flipped when she jumped out to get these papers. HA! What fun though. So we get onto the base, and into a training center, asked where the misson was and got a "uuuhhhh....huh??" So we turned around and left.
Beach front hotel, and sun tanning....HERE WE COME!
HAHAH. Yeah right. Did you know its COLD HERE! That is there is a cold front going through cali right now, and there aint no such thing as spending two days on the beach BURNING myself so I look like a Mexican when I return home. So what do we do? Go all the way to the CITY! And we did. We drove and drove. got back on highway One and drove over the cliffs. And into the City.....and I mean C I T Y! This place is HUGE! and what in the world do we stay?
San Francisco:
What a place, and in the dark, its like going into another world. A world you know NOTHING about and have NO idea HOW in the WORLD do navigate. And look at me! A little small town girl, who is lost in a city 10 times the size of mine, and I am LOVING IT! We went back out of SF and back into San Jose to find a cheap hotel. What does a room here cost? over $400 a night! Yeah, budget biggie please!.
Monday we woke up got packed and headed out YET again! up highway one. Why? Because even though its only five hours to San Francisco, we like to take the LONG way....the SLOW way......So, highway one it is, and boy it was fun! (and long) The coast here is beautiful....But NOT the east coast! There are lots of farms and more farms....oh look ANOTHER FARM! but its neat to see where our salads come from.
THE DAY CAME TO AN END! WHAT!? Yep, five hours, right? HA! We were still over two hundred miles from San Francisco, and not a beach in site. Ok, so there were beachs, and tons of it. But it was FREEZING, and we had to back track because of the fires that were on highway one....Crazy I know, but its amazing how God works sometimes. Changing our plans.....Gosh! Next time I will phone ahead to the big man upstairs....haha.
It really wasnt that bad. We stayed in a littler town called Sansimeon. Very sweet and low key. We got some good sleep, still cold, but we are having fun....right?
Day Four: Lets try for the beach outside of San Francisco..............Huh?
Bad IDEA! It just got colder, and the mountains got taller, and the drop off was AMAZING! Driving through 101 to get back to highway one was neat, again. More SALADS! We also stopped randomly at a mission. One of the oldest, actually number 16th in line of about 20 something missions here in California. It was so cool. Sad though because the building just suffered a HUGE earth quake last week, and the OLD chapel is falling apart. They say it may take upto five years to get it where people can go in it again....yikes! ONWARD! More highway one, and one more mission....(two) This one would be a doosy! And a stop into the ARMY BASE! Well, it was a rough one. We were stopped at the gate and asked for ID's from both of us, prrof of car insurance, and a bunch of other papers. Well my wonderful mother had all these papers in random spots in the car and the guys nearly flipped when she jumped out to get these papers. HA! What fun though. So we get onto the base, and into a training center, asked where the misson was and got a "uuuhhhh....huh??" So we turned around and left.
Beach front hotel, and sun tanning....HERE WE COME!
HAHAH. Yeah right. Did you know its COLD HERE! That is there is a cold front going through cali right now, and there aint no such thing as spending two days on the beach BURNING myself so I look like a Mexican when I return home. So what do we do? Go all the way to the CITY! And we did. We drove and drove. got back on highway One and drove over the cliffs. And into the City.....and I mean C I T Y! This place is HUGE! and what in the world do we stay?
San Francisco:
What a place, and in the dark, its like going into another world. A world you know NOTHING about and have NO idea HOW in the WORLD do navigate. And look at me! A little small town girl, who is lost in a city 10 times the size of mine, and I am LOVING IT! We went back out of SF and back into San Jose to find a cheap hotel. What does a room here cost? over $400 a night! Yeah, budget biggie please!.
Day two....and then some
LA! We made....Now where do we STAY!??!???!!?? This had to be the hardest part, searching for a place to stay in LA! We got off onto Hollywood Blvd. And found where the show would be...The show that I have been dying to see for about two years now (this would be the highlight of my trip so far) So from Hollywood, we got on Sunset, there we found a very sweet and old hotel and got a room for two nights. It did not cost as much as we had thought it would, which was nice.
Side note: My dad has spoiled me on this trip. He let us have a good sum of cash for hotels, food, shows, SHOPPING. He said this is my super trip! To enjoy it, and have a blast, and boy have we!!!
Ok, so one we go. Hollywood...Well.....It SUCKS! (pardon my french) but again with the Eh, not so "awesome" as TV makes it out to be. So we did some sight seeing, and walked around a bit, then went back to crash. Four hour driving trip, plus hiking around a new city just about did me in. And plus, when it was 8 there it was 10 at home, and I was ready for bed!
SUNDAY!!!! This would be my favorite day...WHY!? Because this would be the day I see that "show" I was DYING TO SEE!!! So it start with church, and church was nice....Until they said "and next Saturday we will have a potluck with the Gay and Lesbian's of the church" WHAT!?....moving on. Then from there we went and had breakfast, and went and stood in line to get tickets to see WICKED THE MUSICAL!!! I WAS GOING TO GET TO SEE WICKED!!! AAAHHHH!!!! Ok, ok, sorry, moment of crazy Sarah there. So we went shopping in one of the malls there (it was ok, not to great) then went and got cleaned up and had dinner, and went to the evening show of Wicked. IT WAS AMAZING!!!! A MUST SEE!! Eeek. I want to see it AGAIN!
We spent two days in LA, and they were nice, but here we go...ON THE ROAD AGIN!.....
Side note: My dad has spoiled me on this trip. He let us have a good sum of cash for hotels, food, shows, SHOPPING. He said this is my super trip! To enjoy it, and have a blast, and boy have we!!!
Ok, so one we go. Hollywood...Well.....It SUCKS! (pardon my french) but again with the Eh, not so "awesome" as TV makes it out to be. So we did some sight seeing, and walked around a bit, then went back to crash. Four hour driving trip, plus hiking around a new city just about did me in. And plus, when it was 8 there it was 10 at home, and I was ready for bed!
SUNDAY!!!! This would be my favorite day...WHY!? Because this would be the day I see that "show" I was DYING TO SEE!!! So it start with church, and church was nice....Until they said "and next Saturday we will have a potluck with the Gay and Lesbian's of the church" WHAT!?....moving on. Then from there we went and had breakfast, and went and stood in line to get tickets to see WICKED THE MUSICAL!!! I WAS GOING TO GET TO SEE WICKED!!! AAAHHHH!!!! Ok, ok, sorry, moment of crazy Sarah there. So we went shopping in one of the malls there (it was ok, not to great) then went and got cleaned up and had dinner, and went to the evening show of Wicked. IT WAS AMAZING!!!! A MUST SEE!! Eeek. I want to see it AGAIN!
We spent two days in LA, and they were nice, but here we go...ON THE ROAD AGIN!.....
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Trip of a LIFE TIME!
Here is how it began.
Day 1:
Well, it started EARLY! I got up at 5AM! (What in the world was I thinking!???) Yep, I did get up that early, wanted to spend time with my brobro before I headed out. He had to leave for work at 5:30, so it would be a short and sweet goodbye. I had this feeling in the back of my head say "LEAVE EARLY" And I am glad I did. I had planned to get out the door by 7:30, instead I left around 6:45. The airport was PACKED!!!!! So, of course I check in, give them my bags, say a prayer it gets where I am going, and head to the GATE! As I get in the line, this sweet old man is behind me, very JEWISH looking, I mean VERY. So there we are standing in this never ending line to get past the security guards and it gets to our turn to pretty much unpack our carry ons and strip out of our clothing! (Its almost come to that I swear) There were NO buckets for us, so I (and I am a very "I get what I want" kinda persin) WEAVE through the crowd and grab two buckets, one for me and one for him, you would have thought I was an angel sent by God, he thanked me and thanked me. He was so kind in the face and frail, I wanted to take him with me....haha! Just kidding.
Oh the WAIT! It was long, and it seemed they would NEVER let us on....Side note: Flying South West is like gambling on a plane. You get up 24 hours before your flight and HOPE you clicked just in time to get an "early number" Because if you dont you are stuck on the back of the bus, next to the guy who cant fit and really needs two seats, and the other guy who is sleeping on your shoulder, drooling and snoring. Well I was LUCKY! I got that early ticket, and was on with group A. So here I am, ALONE, scared out of my mind being alone, so I am walking on, again ALONE, and I see the perfect seat! BAM! There it is, behind the couple with the three boys...Im thinking, YES I can play and not be bored for 4.5 hours.....Now comes the tricky part, those two men, who will set next to me, yeah know, the one who snores and the other who drool.....HA! this is fun. So there I am sitting there ALONE, by the window thinking A. these seats are CLOSE, and B. if I have to pee, and I KNOW I will, I am STUCK!. Well on comes the plane a nice looking young man, with a violin, and down the aisle you trots.....Ok, so there was no trotting, just pushing and shoving of other passengers. Well, guess who your lucky seat partner is!? Yep, that guy, with the violin. So....HERE WE GO.....UP UP AND AWAY!!!!
Jason, his name was Jason, and he was the nicest guy! We had a LOT in common with music, and it turns out he went to the same fiddle camp my brother had gone to YEARS ago, and we know a lot of the same people. He lives in Boston, and the group he is touring with just did a show in Nashville and now they were headed to California. So, now we are friends, Random from the plane, but friends. Strange how you can meet up with someone who you likely knew WAY back when we were younger.
About that third seat, our other passenger in crime. THE MAN FROM THE LINE!! Ya know, the one I got the box for to send our lives through xray, well he was headed to California as well. And guess what! he was a professor from Orange County, in Cal. Teaches history, so very nice, but slept the whole way, and me being a History major didnt get to ask all my questions....darn. But he was glad to see me!
The trip seem to last a long time but fly by as well. When we landed I text my mother and she called me with EXCITEMENT That I was FINALLY there! She had been waiting on me since my dad left that same morning back to Nashville. So.....Vegas....Well....ITS NASTY! AWFUL! GROSS!!!!! UUUUGGGGHHH!!!!! Mom asked me when we got in the car, "How about we drive up the strip?" I said, NO THANK YOU! This is a nasty place, and so full of sin! I have no need in seeing it, I want to get out.....
So, there we went, on our way to LOS ANGELES! (I know, its not that great of a place either, Hollywood at least) But we got in the car, and I was pumped CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME! EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!
More to come.....
Day 1:
Well, it started EARLY! I got up at 5AM! (What in the world was I thinking!???) Yep, I did get up that early, wanted to spend time with my brobro before I headed out. He had to leave for work at 5:30, so it would be a short and sweet goodbye. I had this feeling in the back of my head say "LEAVE EARLY" And I am glad I did. I had planned to get out the door by 7:30, instead I left around 6:45. The airport was PACKED!!!!! So, of course I check in, give them my bags, say a prayer it gets where I am going, and head to the GATE! As I get in the line, this sweet old man is behind me, very JEWISH looking, I mean VERY. So there we are standing in this never ending line to get past the security guards and it gets to our turn to pretty much unpack our carry ons and strip out of our clothing! (Its almost come to that I swear) There were NO buckets for us, so I (and I am a very "I get what I want" kinda persin) WEAVE through the crowd and grab two buckets, one for me and one for him, you would have thought I was an angel sent by God, he thanked me and thanked me. He was so kind in the face and frail, I wanted to take him with me....haha! Just kidding.
Oh the WAIT! It was long, and it seemed they would NEVER let us on....Side note: Flying South West is like gambling on a plane. You get up 24 hours before your flight and HOPE you clicked just in time to get an "early number" Because if you dont you are stuck on the back of the bus, next to the guy who cant fit and really needs two seats, and the other guy who is sleeping on your shoulder, drooling and snoring. Well I was LUCKY! I got that early ticket, and was on with group A. So here I am, ALONE, scared out of my mind being alone, so I am walking on, again ALONE, and I see the perfect seat! BAM! There it is, behind the couple with the three boys...Im thinking, YES I can play and not be bored for 4.5 hours.....Now comes the tricky part, those two men, who will set next to me, yeah know, the one who snores and the other who drool.....HA! this is fun. So there I am sitting there ALONE, by the window thinking A. these seats are CLOSE, and B. if I have to pee, and I KNOW I will, I am STUCK!. Well on comes the plane a nice looking young man, with a violin, and down the aisle you trots.....Ok, so there was no trotting, just pushing and shoving of other passengers. Well, guess who your lucky seat partner is!? Yep, that guy, with the violin. So....HERE WE GO.....UP UP AND AWAY!!!!
Jason, his name was Jason, and he was the nicest guy! We had a LOT in common with music, and it turns out he went to the same fiddle camp my brother had gone to YEARS ago, and we know a lot of the same people. He lives in Boston, and the group he is touring with just did a show in Nashville and now they were headed to California. So, now we are friends, Random from the plane, but friends. Strange how you can meet up with someone who you likely knew WAY back when we were younger.
About that third seat, our other passenger in crime. THE MAN FROM THE LINE!! Ya know, the one I got the box for to send our lives through xray, well he was headed to California as well. And guess what! he was a professor from Orange County, in Cal. Teaches history, so very nice, but slept the whole way, and me being a History major didnt get to ask all my questions....darn. But he was glad to see me!
The trip seem to last a long time but fly by as well. When we landed I text my mother and she called me with EXCITEMENT That I was FINALLY there! She had been waiting on me since my dad left that same morning back to Nashville. So.....Vegas....Well....ITS NASTY! AWFUL! GROSS!!!!! UUUUGGGGHHH!!!!! Mom asked me when we got in the car, "How about we drive up the strip?" I said, NO THANK YOU! This is a nasty place, and so full of sin! I have no need in seeing it, I want to get out.....
So, there we went, on our way to LOS ANGELES! (I know, its not that great of a place either, Hollywood at least) But we got in the car, and I was pumped CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME! EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!
More to come.....
Sunday, June 15, 2008
FAMILY, how I love mine!
Danny Boy (my younger brother and I) are home ALONE! No parents, gone, left, and wont be back till next weekend :-( So very sad!
Well, Saturday came and went, and now Sunday came and went, and now my brother sit here in the den eating our mothers home made spaghetti sauce, teary eyed and weepy. WE MISS OUR PARENTS!!! and they have been gone only 36 hours. They called us and my brother, who is no cry baby, never gets choked up over anything, GOT CHOKED UP! and me, well I cried. Hearing their voice just did us in.
The weekend is very special in this house, because its when we all get to really SEE each other and spend time, and go out on the boat and have family dinners. During the week, well we all work (except mom, she keeps the house running, and a moms job is the HARDEST job out there) But yeah, so we work, and sometimes its just hard for us to all be at the dinner table during the week, but come Saturday we are THERE! Hungry and ready for a good meal.
So, Momma, and Daddy, we miss you both! Its funny how it takes a trip for you to stop and go...."WOW! I really do need my family.
Hope all the Dad's out there had a Happy Father's Day!
Well, Saturday came and went, and now Sunday came and went, and now my brother sit here in the den eating our mothers home made spaghetti sauce, teary eyed and weepy. WE MISS OUR PARENTS!!! and they have been gone only 36 hours. They called us and my brother, who is no cry baby, never gets choked up over anything, GOT CHOKED UP! and me, well I cried. Hearing their voice just did us in.
The weekend is very special in this house, because its when we all get to really SEE each other and spend time, and go out on the boat and have family dinners. During the week, well we all work (except mom, she keeps the house running, and a moms job is the HARDEST job out there) But yeah, so we work, and sometimes its just hard for us to all be at the dinner table during the week, but come Saturday we are THERE! Hungry and ready for a good meal.
So, Momma, and Daddy, we miss you both! Its funny how it takes a trip for you to stop and go...."WOW! I really do need my family.
Hope all the Dad's out there had a Happy Father's Day!
Friday, June 13, 2008
ITS TIME TO PRAY MORE!!!
Yes, Sally Oehmen, it is TIME TO PRAY MORE!!!!!!
So, yeah! Thats all I have to say, is I NEED TO PRAY MORE! NOW!
So, yeah! Thats all I have to say, is I NEED TO PRAY MORE! NOW!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
HELLO!!!!
Well, its JUNE NOW! and the summer is FLYING BY! The G-fam made it home SAFE with the babe, who is BEAUTIFUL and full of laughter and joy! They are truly blessed with all of their kids! They are all pretty amazing!
I had far to much fun being "mom" while everyone was away. It was pretty sad, they had me wrapped around their finger, it was "can we have waffles?" just about every morning when they learned I would happily make them if they asked. What can I say, Im a sucker for waffles, I like them a little to much. Even one Saturday morning miss Amber and miss Andrea came over and we made pancakes, with whip cream, and chocolate chips, and EVERYTHING! They got a KICK out of that.
So, they have been back now for some time, everyone seems to be settling in, but then again, I am not there 24/7 like I had been.
Tomorrow, we will....ok, so I WILL be sitting while miss S and HOPEFULLY Miss E will be getting their hair done before they are off to California! My parents also leave this Saturday for Daddy's business trip in Vegas. I know they are not looking forward to spending time there because our family has NO interest in gambling. We would have a summer home in Charleston if it wasn't for my great great great grandfather who gambled away the family plantation and fortune. HAHA!
Well, its JUNE NOW! and the summer is FLYING BY! The G-fam made it home SAFE with the babe, who is BEAUTIFUL and full of laughter and joy! They are truly blessed with all of their kids! They are all pretty amazing!
I had far to much fun being "mom" while everyone was away. It was pretty sad, they had me wrapped around their finger, it was "can we have waffles?" just about every morning when they learned I would happily make them if they asked. What can I say, Im a sucker for waffles, I like them a little to much. Even one Saturday morning miss Amber and miss Andrea came over and we made pancakes, with whip cream, and chocolate chips, and EVERYTHING! They got a KICK out of that.
So, they have been back now for some time, everyone seems to be settling in, but then again, I am not there 24/7 like I had been.
Tomorrow, we will....ok, so I WILL be sitting while miss S and HOPEFULLY Miss E will be getting their hair done before they are off to California! My parents also leave this Saturday for Daddy's business trip in Vegas. I know they are not looking forward to spending time there because our family has NO interest in gambling. We would have a summer home in Charleston if it wasn't for my great great great grandfather who gambled away the family plantation and fortune. HAHA!
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