as far as seattle!

hello!  what an unexpected post!  i am typing to you from the seattle public library.  it's got some crazy cool architecture and they are so awesome they let non-residents use the internet for a whole hour, instead of 30 minutes like iowa city's public library.  ooh!

so tomorrow we are flying out of here to alaska.  i can't say it's something that i have been thinking about a whole lot, because we have been spending so much time just trying to get this far.  we have been driving what feels like non-stop.  or rather, colleen and vikas have been since they are the only ones who can drive stick.  anyway, so yeah.  we made it as far as mitchell, south dakota the first night and camped in a super windy thunderstorm in a campground that was entirely rv's besides us.  but the people next to us were nice and gave us coffee the next day.  then we drove to columbus, montana and camped at the itch-kep-pe city park.  it was next to the yellowstone river, and while we didn't have much time to spend looking around, it was still very beautiful.  the best camping was last night though when we camped at the riverside state park outside of spokane.  we got in early enough to get a spot, and even though it downpoured while we set up the tent, that was the only rain.  we then went and ate indian food and then came back to hike and look at the swinging bridge and the rapids in the river.  and now we are here in seattle after our last day of driving and the first thing we did was come here, lol!  but we have some last minute shopping to do, and we will probably look around downtown as well before we head to tacoma to stay with some of melody's relatives for the night. 

i can't complain too badly, it's been a little stressful here and there, but i can't say that that is entirely unexpected.  it's hard for erin, melody and i to be cramped in the back, but then we don't have to drive which is equally stressful.  but it's been beautiful and i am sure we are all glad to have this leg of the trip done and to get on to alaska for the "big event" as it were. 

i've taken over four rolls of film already and so i guess i will have to buy more.  (you can always send me some too!  i only have 200 photos or thereabouts i can take on my digital, so i'm trying to conserve that.)  i was going to upload a few that i already took on my digital camera and relocate them to my flash drive and post a few, but my camera cord is in my bag somewhere in the depths of the trunk so i guess that's not going to happen.  you can satisy yourself by looking up photos of the places i've been online and pretend that you can see me in them or something.

maybe there is something else that i could talk about, but i can't think of it.  so i guess that i will grudgingly finish up this post, and begin my internetless-ness for real this time.  eek!