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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Christmas Tree Exploration
Getting a Christmas tree today was intense. :D
So let me tell you. My mom, step-dad, aunt, uncle, and cousin all got together in my mom's ford explorer. Great car for going up into the mountains. My dad, brother, and I got into my dad's Volkswagon Jetta and lead the way.
As we get into the dirt road from the mountain, the road starts to have patches of potholes. They were in no way fun, whatsoever, to get passed. Several miles of this was no fun. My dad reassured us we wouldn't have to go through this road on the way back, it just happened to be faster. The other road was longer.
So we climb up into a large clearing and park the cars. We then hike around for awhile to find the tree we want. So each family, in the end, found their own tree after deciding on this or that one.
Thus, we attached our trees to our cars and headed out the second route. New ENCOUNTER!: snow. It was slick, but after about a quarter mile, we were back into the gravel. We drive along quite a ways, and bam! Water had dug out the road. But not too much. Hastily, everyone moves around the gravel to cover up the hole and my dad manages to drive through, but barely. Whew!
Passed through that first hurdle, we continue our journey. Here comes a fork in the road, so we turn right. After a few miles of traveling, we encounter another washed out part of road. Unfortunately, this hole still had water heavily flowing through. Of course, my brother being consistent in this manor, fell in the water. The ledge he stood on broke off. lol. It was funny. He had to change his pants otherwise he would freeze.
So, sadly, we had to turn around, but luckily we did not have to go back to pot-hole road from before. The fork in the road from earlier turned out that we took the wrong direction. So we came back and went the other way.
But this road was far worse than the other road. We came across a large bump in the road which was supposed to prevent washouts. We crossed it and around the corner was another. Then another. We bottomed out on over half of them, and there were way too many to count. My dad's car did not have a whole lot of clearance.
Half way back through the forested mountains, my mom's car stopped. Why? Well, when they caught up to us, they showed us a piece of car that had fallen off of the underside of my dad's car.
Then after the several encounters of bumps and large rocks, there were more potholes. So in the end, the second route wasn't worth it. But it sure made a heck of an experience.
Not to mention the road was very very foggy. I was scared too that since we were bouncing like crazy over stuff, that we might end up tumbling over the cliff.
But we made it out safely and home safely. I'm not sure if my mom made it home safely because she traveled a different road from us once we reached Vancouver.
I believe I have a very special Christmas tree this year. Normally we get stuck by snow. But this- every time something bad would happen, we would say, "C'mon, what else can they throw at us?" Yeah, wrong thing to say. Potholes, rain when promised sun, snow when promised none, falling rock signs that had fallen over and been damaged from falling rocks, road dams, car damage, car covered in mud, blah blah blah. XD
Sorry, that was kind of long. Just, I was so happy to finally get home. Anyways, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.
Good night.
Yours Truly,
FlowerKiss
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