2) A few pictures from week the second...

Me, Taylor, and Rachel went for a trail walk in the woods.

On Thursday, we set forth in the bus for a weekend conference called "Awakening Cry" in Spokane. I got my geography a little mixed up and thought it was in Idaho for a little bit, haha. But no, it's just on this side of the Washington Idaho border. This isn't all the luggage we brought, I took this picture before all the students and youth had arrived.

It's so cool how the sides of the bus go up to reveal a secret compartment for luggage underneath!

Annnnnd unloading the bus Thursday night after the first conference session! Then we were driven off to host homes where we stayed for the weekend. I was housed with Kristi, one of the staff, and Abbie, one of the Yuba City students. And our host home was a Homeschool family! With a cool basement! With epic bookshelves! Including Narnia! And they used Apologia science! I lovvvve that science curriculum. =D

For lunches and dinners, Kristi gave each of us an envelope with our name on it and $7 inside. There were plenty of restaurants and fast foods within walking distance, so we had our options. When done, we would return the envelope to her with the receipt inside. This is a picture of several of us at Denny's for lunch.

Did I mention how much I LOVE the bus? Just... road trip!!! =D The bus screams road trip. It's so much fun, it's so... free. I just love traveling. I love not knowing exactly what the day holds, not knowing what I'm going to eat or where I'm going to sleep, just knowing that I certainly will eat something and I certainly will sleep somewhere, but... I'm out on an adventure. With awesome friends, too. Think Bilbo Baggins. "I'm going on an adventure!"

...And when we returned Rachel's car had gone into a deep slumber and needed jumper cables. xD Hers is the white one, not the banana yellow one. That one belongs to Caleb, one of the interns, who is on the top of my mental "crazy drivers" list. I've got four names put down so far.

And this last picture is from today. My house parents, Gene and Barbara. And my house nephew, TJ.

This was another extremely full week! As will next week be. A guest speaker named Carry Abbott will be coming. And in my host home there will be three girls from Canada who are going through a similar discipleship program. Fun fun. And then next week my dad is flying up on Monday! ^_^ He has some work in the morning/early afternoon, and then we'll be hanging out in the late afternoon/evening before he has to fly back home. I'm looking forward to it! =D