Veteran's Day Trek

Our internet has been out since Wednesday due to a power outage on campus. Apparently internet has been out all over the place.

Veteran’s Day was a lovely day off from classes. I slept in until 8:30, until I was rudely awakened and pushed off the bed. From about 10 in the morning until 1 in the afternoon, I listened to Taylor Swift’s new album and worked on a scarf that I started three or four years ago. I’m about halfway done with it now. It’s taken so long because I’m using tiny needles to make the stitches really small and close together.

At 1, I decided I needed to get out of the apartment, so I took my laptop to Starbucks for a few minutes to get some internet while I waited for my coffee. After that it was barely after 1, so I decided to drive around for a bit. I went up to the Umtanum Falls parking lot. Ran into a couple patches of snow on the road, but nothing major. I turned around at the parking lot, and went back down the hills. Then I decided to go into Manastash Canyon a ways. There was a lot more snow on the road there. Luckily I need some practice driving in snow since I haven’t done it before. So that was pretty fun and exhilarating. It’s so nice to have a car here in Ellensburg so I can go out and explore a bit. When I got back, it was about 4 in the afternoon. Alex wanted to go out and explore in the snow after I told him about my adventure, so we all piled into his Jeep and headed out to a road I’d never been to before, I think it was called Culockum Road. We got out onto a gravel road, and then up and up into the hills where it got pretty snowy.

Alex decided to chop down a tree for our apartment. Who knows how long it will last since it’s too early to be chopping down trees. I don’t think they’ve even gone dormant yet. I wanted to say something, but once again found myself in a situation where I didn’t want to sound like Ms. Know It All. I figure why not let him do his Alpha-Male thing and chop down a tree? Who cares how long it lasts anyway. We won’t even be here very much between now and Christmas, what with Thanksgiving break coming up and then Winter break lasting most of December. So he chopped down a nice tree, put two of the seats down in the back of the Jeep and shoved the tree in there. Since chivalry seems to be nonexistent these days and a certain boyfriend didn’t offer to sit in the back with the tree instead, I rode back the entire way with it encroaching upon my space and dripping snow all down my left thigh. Although I’m not really trying to complain about being stuck in the back seat. I like it better back there, I feel less obliged to talk to people. The silently dying tree and I got along just fine on the 45 or so minute ride back to civilization. By the time we got back into town my entire left leg was wet and I was sitting in a puddle due to the snow dripping off the tree. We stopped at Fred Meyer to buy some Christmas lights, and then at Safeway to get some pizzas for dinner. Now our tree is sitting in the corner of the living room looking Christmasy. My guess is that it will be a crispy fire-hazard by the time Thanksgiving break rolls around.

I'll take a picture of it inside once we get the lights on it  :)

Overall, Veteran’s Day was a great day for all of us, and I can’t wait to explore farther into Manastash Canyon. I wanted to go farther today, but I was running low on gas…