Home --> New Years Eve

Home --> New Years Eve

With about a half an hour left in the car ride, we listened to Daughtry’s Home. Probably one of my favorite songs right now. :) Hahaha, of course it would be. Buut, quotes from the song: ‘The miles are getting longer, it seems, the closer I get to you.’ ‘I’m going home, to the place where I belong, where you love has always been enough for me.’ Uhhmm, there are probably more quotes, but the song was definitely a favorite of mine. :)

Then Trenton and I decided to do our Blue’s Clues impressions…and he won. Haha, he was like, “Ana, you’re the guy in the stripped shirt!” “Okayy…?” “Bar Parowwww” (Or…haha, whatever he sounds like) I just kind of stared at him…and finally he was like, “Say something!” “Uhh…what do I say?” “You say something like ‘good job Blue!’” “Good job Blue…” “No, you need more enthusiasm, you be Blue.” “Bar Par Ohh” “You can’t do it right…” Soo…yeeah, that’s what we did…it, was pretty crazy, and, then we reached Fountain Hills, and everyone was really hyper! Haha!

From there, we saw more and more landmarks of Scottsdale that were just really cool…likee…

Camelback Mountain

Canals

The sun! haa

Cotton Fields

32347634 other mountains

INDIAN SCHOOL ROAD!

The smell!! It’s weird, buut, it smells a certain way, :) I lovee it :D

The 101!! Hahaa…it wasn’t very busy…

ARIZONA LICENSE PLATES!! (haha…that’s gonna be really weird to get used to)

Soo, yeeah, we reached our house about 4:00ish. As we drove up, we had been ‘heart attacked’ and there were hearts all over our front yard, it was awesome! We walked into the house and it was cleann!!! As my brothers and I explored the house, we saw my grandparents in the living room. They totally surprised us, but we didn’t say anything so they could surprise my parents! Haha, it was really awesome. :)

About 4:15, a workforce arrived at our house…I was in my room talking with the girl who stayed here, Lolo, and we looked out he window. There were like 245384 people in my front yard unloading the Uhaul and the Van! Haha, I didn’t do anything, and it was all taken inside! I lovee it! Soo, they were all gone about 5:30, and then we just hung out.

We went bike riding with the little neighbor boys, and then we went over to their house for awhile to play their Wii (!!) and, just talk and hang out. Ooh, and then (!) we had FIREWORKS that we had gotten in WI (where they’re legal) and we set them all off when it was dark. It was soo much fun!!

After that it was like 10:00, and we all went our own ways. I took a shower, and barely made it to midnight, everyone else made it to like 12:01ish…or maybe not…I went to bed at like 20 past 12…and, that was my night, the end of the longg trip. :)

**Buut, don’t think that this blog is over, I don’t think it is yet…we’ll see what comes along. (: **

Into the Valley of the Sun --> December 31st (Monday)

I am home! Yay! It’s pretty must really exciting. :) More info in the next blog probably :)

Sooo, we woke up really early this morning, like 6:30 or 7:00 cause of the time change. We wanted to wake up at 8:00, leave at nine, and instead we woke up at 7:00 and left at 8:45. Which, leaving early was better than leaving late. The sun kind of trailed us all morning because of (again) the time change which has the sun come up an hour later. Soo, the sun followed us.

One of the things that my mom told us from the beginning of December was that we needed to know all of our states an capitals before we entered the state of AZ…I didn’t really study or anything, anndd…so we tallied how many we all needed to learn. I…had about 18 to learn, Christian had 10, and Trenton had…I’m not sure…he had a good number, probably the same as me. :) Then we just stupidly studied them…over and over and over and over and over again, for a really long time… blahh…

Driving through the mountains of Northern New Mexico was amazing. It was soo pretty, seeing the sun reflect off the mountains, looking up at a cloudless blue sky that sunk into the horizon…I lovedd it. :) There were also tons of little adobe houses that just sat on the hillsides. It was amazing. :)

Annd, we stopped at the border around 11:00, like literally at the New Mexico/Arizona State-Line, for like 20 minutes so we could say all our state capitals to my parents…which was really a drag…but if you ever want to know the state capitals, ask me… :/

Then, (FINALLY) we crossed the NM/AZ border at 11:26, exactly. Soo, that was a very happy thing, and, at the moment, that meant that we would have only 2 hours till Flagstaff, and then 2 hours home from Flagstaff. That was a very happy thing. :)

It was about 12:15 we realized that from Flagstaff, the I-17 was closed. Apparently they had tons of snow, and a fatality, which caused them to close it all down. Soo, we took a detour of our own and decided to go through Holbrook to Snowflake, and then on to Payson and from there, Scottsdale.

We stopped in Snowflake for a little bit to get lunch at Arby’s…yummy food. :) From there we got back on the road and drove to Holbrook…we sung High School Musical the whole way.

As we were driving down from Holbrook to Payson, we saw a CAMP SHADOW PINES!! Haha…apparently it didn’t burn down. Soo, Trenton saw it, but I missed it, and he was like, ‘look, Camp Shadow Pines!’ He was really excited about it :)

We also saw snow everywhere…but it wasn’t enough to do anything with…

Around 2:45 we stopped at a gas station to get gas…annd, we took pictures on the Uhual. The weather outside was like 55 and it was soo nicee!! I lovedd it! I absolutely LOVE wearing T-shirts, and…this was the perfect opportunity to! We got back in the car then, and we had about an hour till we arrived home. :)

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