vacation

wow...it's been a really long time since i've written anything. so instead of catching you up in a huge long post, i'm gonna do a bunch of short ones. most of the people who read this already know what's been happening, but i'll fill in the others.

vacation was alright. it wasn't anywhere near exciting :) lets just say that i read about 700 pages of my book on this trip. anyone who knows me very well knows that i HATE reading. it is the last thing i would spend time doing, but i have been trying to get into it a little bit more. i would say that 700 pages constitutes a not very fun and exciting trip, but what can you expect when you go to eastern washington for a week with just your parents and dog??
i'm making it sound like the whole vacation was horrible. it wasn't. i just didn't have as much fun as i would have if a friend would have been able to come.
the trip started out a bit rocky. we got to the campground just fine, found our site, pulled in, and during the parking process noticed that our neighbors must have been camping with the people who were in the site before us because their table was about 3 feet away from ours and a ton of their stuff was right on the line between our campsite and theirs. the people encroching on our space also didn't happen to be in their site the entire day. so to solve the problem, my dad angled the trailer (he's all about angles) toward the water and not as straight into the site because we didn't want to walk out the door of our trailer and be staring at these dumb people.
so the trailer was angled just how he wanted it. i set up my tent and realized that i had no stakes for it, so my dad and i went up to the store as soon as he was done leveling the trailer. we got some stakes and some other stuff and when we got back my mom says, "the ranger just came and asked us to move our trailer so it would be pulled in straight so that we don't drive on the grass." this was one of the most aggrevating things that happened on this trip. my dad had it exactly how he wanted it, it was already leveled, and in order to move it and back it in straight, he would have to drive on the grass the exact same amount of times he would if he jsut waited to move it until we left! it was so stupid.
we moved the trailer, but later saw someone elses trailer even more angled and they didn't have to move theirs....ridiculous!
the last thing making this trip lame was the birds. every day at 10:15 (yes, it was that exact!) a huge swarm of birds would come and land in the tree over our camp site. there were hundreds of them. about 10 minutes after they would come, we would start hearing a pitter pat sound, then every once in a while feel something land on us or on our books or something. these birds would land in the tree, find some berry or something to eat and drop seeds and poo on us all day. it was horrible. they would come at 10:15 and leave at 3:30. you could run a clock by it. it was so weird and really annoying because they made such a huge mess. i took some pictures of my tent. it was covered in gross poop and stuff. if the pics turn out i'll post them. anyway, they were just really loud- it sounded like a jugle, and they made a huge stinky mess.
other than these things, the trip was fine. it was very relaxing...i think a little too relaxing for me. i am so different from my parents when it comes to these things!