Can't believe I'm already home. I mean, it's been three days, but it was non-stop moving forEVER. I thought it would never end, yet it was over all too quickly.
First thing we did was wake up, obviously. The adventure part? We HAD to be there at five thirty in the fricking morning!!!!!!!! It wasn't as bad as we expected, though, as we had originally be told it was just.... FIVE. Oh God, shoot me now, was what I was thinking. My friends know I love my sleep. I told them nobody was allowed to talk to me until I talk to them first, unless they had a good reason. I didn't want to murder them, but if it was an emergency, like they thought I was dead, which I might have been.... different story altogether.
First ACTUAL thing we did was on the bus, when they put a movie in. I think the first one was The Sandlot, but I can't remember it all too well because I only watched bits and pieces of each movie. Except for Remember the Titans, which I believe was next, because I just love Sunshine. We rotated seats every rest stop, which gave us each two turns by each other person (there were four of us: Andrea, Emily, me, and another friend, Amanda). I think I sat first with Amanda, which was fine but I felt bad because Amanda must have been bored- I was too tired for anything else. But then I sort of woke up and sat by Emily, which was awesome because we just talked and listened to her music. That's a big point in our friendship, I think, the music. She's more of a die-hard country fan, though./I LOVE country, but I also expand a little more than she does. Just no screaming rock and hard-core rap. Eccchh.
BTW: NEW SONG OBSESSION: You're Gonna Go Far, Kid- The Offspring. listening to it right at this moment.
With Andrea, we had some great cosplays. Then we went through Gettysburg with her as my seatmate.
God, Gettysburg was AMAZING. I leanred so much from the guide, and we had so much fun. From the Civil war, we saw lots of monuments and original buildings with bullet holes in the sides, the house of the only civilian who died, whose name was, scarily enough, Jennie, and even a barn that had a huge cannonball hole all the way through. You could look and see light coming through the other end of the barn!! We saw Little Round Top and the field where Pickett's Charge took place. it was too cool.
The best part EVER was the Pennsylvania Monument, which was enormous and huge and just too cool. We got to go in and run up this tight little spiral staircase that went on FOREVER! When you get to the top there's this huge room, the inside of the dome. it's pretty much empty and blank but for a few engravings in the walls, and a door to the left of the staircase. You go through that and OH MY GOD The wind and the view were unbelievable, amazing and simply indescribably beautiful. I thought I was going to be blown over the wall the wind was so strong!!! But the scenery was incredible.
So, when Gettysburg was through, we went down to the bus again and drove for the LONGEST time of my life until we got to GOLDEN CORRAL, the HEAVENLY buffet of the GODS. Or GOD. WHATEVER.
But anyway, after that we drove and we drove and we drove and we drove and we stopped and we drove and we stopped and GOT OFF. The hotel was the Clarion Hotel, just outside DC I think, and it was very nice. Elevators were messed up though, so we pretty much KILLED everybody's ears with the racket the entire eighth grade made running and souting up the staircase. Luckily my roommates and I were on the second floor, so we only had to deal with it up two short flights of stairs. The room was pretty basic, so we showered and broke out the candy and Monster, which is better than Red Bull in my opinion, and we watched NCIS and Fifty First Dates until two of us four fell asleep (Emily and Amanda), and then we (Andrea and I) just put everything away and fell asleep listening to the movie. It was a good day.
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