Memorial Day Weekend in the RV part 1

So, people are starting to send me hate mail... and I've got to update this blog. My friend Samantha has a great point "How are people supposed to stalk you if you don't update your page?"

So, here goes.

Memorial day weekend for those of us in the States with regular 8:30-5 jobs like myself, is a time to hit the road... venture out... go away for the weekend! This year, the Sasquatch Festival was three days long. (For those of you not aquainted with this amazing event... no its not a convention to find The Sasquatch... check it here Sasquatch 2006
Last year, it was only one... year before that... one day as well. This year. THREE! WOOOHOOO! So, my brother Kev and I get tickets. Right when they go on sale.

And then my brother gets a job in Chicago, decides he doesn't want to camp... so, we borrow dad's RV! Sweet! Boy were we happy about that come Friday night... but I'll get to that later.

So, Dad's RV (which he has yet to use himself) is a 25' long vehicle. I've never seen it, but that's alright. I've driven enough U-Haul's in my life to probably be familiar with the way an RV drives.

The plan is to go from Seattle to Arlington to get the RV, pick my brother up at the airport at 9 pm --yes. In the RV-- and drive over to the Gorge at George, Washington. Well... that doesn't necessarily happen. Kevin's flight gets delayed an hour, then once they board the plane, they sit on the tarmac for another 45 minutes. So, his plane will not be arriving til around 11.

What do you do in Seattle, when you live in Fremont and you have a 25' RV to hang out in for the next 2 hours? You go to Safeway! So, I drove to Safeway to pick up food for our trip and Shelley calls while I'm there.

Shelley: "Hey, what are you doing?"
Me: "Oh, not much just kinda wasting time. "
Shelley: "What time are you leaving?"
Me: "Well, I was supposed to leave right now, but my brother's plane was delayed and now I'm wasting time at Safeway, so around 11."
Shelley: "Oh good! I wanted to hang out with you since I haven't seen you since before I left for Africa 5 weeks ago. Where will you be? Are you going to be at your apt? Do you have the RV?"
Me: "oh yeah. I have the RV. I'll be at the Safeway parking lot."
Shelley:
Me: giggles.
Shelley: "The Safeway parking lot?"
Me: "Yeah dude! This thing is 25' long, and I don't know where to put it... so I figure I'll do some grocery shopping and then hang out in the RV until its time to pick up my brother."
Shelley: "In the Safeway parking lot?"
Me: "Yeah, I think I'll pick up some beer and hang out and watch Old School on my laptop."
Shelley: "So, you're going to be in the Safeway parking lot, in your RV, drinking beer and watching a movie? Oh my god. Do I know you? What have you done with my friend Katie?"

So, I hung out in the RV at Safeway and around 10:30 I drove to the airport to pick up Kev. Shelley came and hung out for a bit with me and couldn't stop laughing about the RV. Frankly, neither could I. It was so out of character for me, but eh. Its all in good fun right? I show up at the airport and try calling Kev. His phone is still off, so I bet he's still on the plane. I'll just cruise around until he comes out. So, I circle the departures area waiting for him to come out. I think I was starting to make everyone a little nervous since I was doing it for about 20 minutes. :)

Kev makes his way out to the place I'm picking him up at, and since he's so tall its usually pretty easy to pick him out... but I was tired and he was standing next to a pole so he was kinda camoflauged. But, when he opened the door to the RV he started cracking up! You just picked me up from the airport ... in an RV. That's awesome.

Here's a couple pics of the RV:

So, when I picked up the RV from Dad's I realized it didn't have a cd player... so we picked up some tunes at the Flying J in Ellensburg :

I think we pulled into the campground at around 2 am. It was quite a long trip... but at least we had some tunes thanks to the tape selection at the Flying J in Ellensburg.