So, as promised, I bring reports back from my trip out west.
1. Calamity Jane was properly shocked when M and I showed up. She squealed. She jumped. She bounced. She tackled us with hugs and happy-happy-joy-joys that we’d come. Awww.
2. M and I had some road trip fun. Here’s some of the spectacular views of Mount Shasta.
3. And did you know that when you get far enough north in California, they’d tried to break off into their own state called Jefferson? Some haven’t given up the struggle.
4. When we got to Calamity Jane’s house–what I like to call Little House on the Prairie–and enjoyed the home on the range time.
5. Calamity Jane getting all diploma’d up. And a weird graveyard thing they had set up at her high school. I have no idea why.
6. Me and Calamity Jane. Don’t look at me, look at her. She’s cuter and thinner.
7. Me, M, and Calamity Jane.
8. The kittens that were hogging most of the bathroom. Try stepping over them and not on them when you reeeeeally have to pee, and they get less cute and more annoying really fast.
9. Me and my aunt, Calamity Jane’s mom.
10. Calamity Jane in a dress. I had to take a picture because it doesn’t happen that often. She’s sporty. Also, the cake in the background is her mom’s creation. She’s a bad ass baker. Yum. If you haven’t tried Bavarian Cream as cake filling, it’s orgasmic.
11. Me and M. And, oh yeah, my family thought we were gonna make out any second. They all camped out at the cabin and we eschewed the delights of kittens and campfires to stay in a hotel. Which of course meant we were sleeping together. That we had separate beds was beside the point and a trivial detail.
12. Calamity Jane’s younger brother. He’s the baby of the family and now he’s taller than me and has a girlfriend. I feel old.
13. Calamity Jane’s older brothers.
14. More road trip fun on the way back down to Sacramento and the airplane ride back to Utah.
Yay I love pictures! You guys are gorgeous! YAY Calamity on graduating
by R.G. Alexander June 17th, 2008 at 6:32 amShe’s the pretty one of the family. And she’s smart and athletic, too. Just not fair, is it?
by Crystal Jordan June 17th, 2008 at 6:33 amWhat a blast! That graveyard thing IS a little strange but everyone looks so happy. What a wonderful time in life, don’t you think? They can do anything they want!…
*cough* Not that I want to go back, mind you. It’s just fun to remember that I didn’t do anything extra wild or extra freeing. *sigh*
congrats to Jane! I’m glad you made it home safe.
by Bethanne June 17th, 2008 at 6:39 amYeah, you couldn’t pay me enough to go back to high school. I’m glad Calamity Jane made it through with no real calamities.
by Crystal Jordan June 17th, 2008 at 6:40 amWell, Madam M is soooooo gorgeous! I love these pics!
by Jennifer McKenzie June 17th, 2008 at 7:29 amAnd you look fabulous dahling!!
Jennifer: I think you might need to get your eyes checked, but thanks for the compliment sweetie!
Crys was like a Japanese tourist with her digital camera…trying to document absolutely everything!
by Mad Madam M June 17th, 2008 at 8:09 amYou drove through my hometown, Crys! Loved the pics. And yeah that graveyard thing is verra strange…
by Karen Erickson June 17th, 2008 at 8:20 amM: Hey, it’s important to record these things. And if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t got probably the best pic of us together ever!
Karen: And, I DID go through your home town!
by Crystal Jordan June 17th, 2008 at 8:58 amI love Shasta-haven’t been since I was 14, but it’s so beautiful!
by Eden Bradley June 17th, 2008 at 10:07 amCalamity Jane is gorgeous, too! Someone better be standing by with a shotgun-just sayin’…
I enjoyed the road trip. I’ve been to McCloud and driven past Mt Shasta. That cake looks yoummy!
by Shelley Munro June 18th, 2008 at 1:40 am