It is September!

Wow. August went by extremely quickly. I am now back in Provo and school started today. Being reminded of my role as a college student, I must now blog! Because that is what college students do, right?

Okay, so here is my August recap.

On the 24th Jared, my brother, and I drove down to Klammath Falls to join our parents at our time share. I was pretty tired from the stress of packing so I was looking forward to just relaxing for a few days. We played mini golf on the first day and it was really fun. It wasn't your typical mini golf course though. It was like a real golf course with no borders and sand traps and lots of hilly angles. We also swam, played tennis, played horseshoes, and did stuff like that. One night we drove down to Ashland and saw A Comedy of Errors at the Shakespeare Festival. It was good, but different. They made it into a sort of musical and set it up as a Western. It was interesting and entertaining.

On Friday morning I headed out to drive to school. It wouldn't really make sense to drive back up to Portland and take the Boise route, so I drove through Nevada instead. The drive started out pretty good. There were some really nice scenic views and the road was windy. Before I really thought about it, I was in Nevada. Right after I got into Nevada, the highway I was on met up with another one. There was a stop sign and I kinda did a California rolling stop. I looked in my rear view mirror and I saw a cop car parked on the shoulder facing the other way. Then I saw it turn around. I was shouting expletives in my head. Sure enough, I got pulled over. And to make it even better, and by better I mean worse, I wasn't wearing a shirt because it was hot. I decided that I should put my shirt back on as the cop walked from his car to my window, but I slipped it on very quickly and put it on backwards and inside out. This left the tag sticking out right beneath my chin, so I looked even more sketch. I had only been pulled over once before and cops generally make me nervous so I was shaking a bit. He asks me for my driving crap and I grab all my car papers and grab some of them and ask "are these it?" He says "sure." I actually didn't even give him my proof of insurance. I think he didn't care because he could see how nervous I was. So after his explanation of why I should have stopped at the stop sign, he let me go with a verbal warning because he deciphered that I went to BYU And BYU is one of his favorite football teams. I was greatly relieved.

But that wasn't my only problem on this trip. Soon after being pulled over, my car started to struggle on uphill sections. There just wasn't any power. To this day, I still don't know what is wrong with my car. I should probably figure that out sometime soon. I hypothesized that blue's engine was just tired from driving long distances so I tried to take breaks to minimize problems (blue is my car). Pretty soon it was a really bad problem. I couldn't go past thirty on the 75mph highway. Semi-trucks were going right on by me with ease. I ended up having to spend the night in Elko, Nevada because I just couldn't go any further. Let me tell you, there is a lot to do in Elko. And when I say "a lot to do" I mean eat dinner at Subway and sit in a hotel room watching people talk about Sarah Palin. Now that is a memorable Friday night, right?

The next morning I took off pretty early and I didn't have any problems with my car all the way to Ogden, Utah, but once I left Ogden to drive to Provo, I didn't get too far. After stopping in Bountiful for an hour to eat lunch, I thought blue would be rested, but I needed to stop in Midvale again. Then once again I had to stop in Lindon before I puttered into Provo. Ugh. I missed the football game and spent a nice Saturday sitting and waiting around.

So then I spent the rest of the night moving in and unpacking. Sunday was church and then I went up to Alpine and had dinner at the Otteson's. And that is August. I think it wasn't too exciting, but if you read it, it's too late! I'll write about school tomorrow. It's September!