Oregon Trip!

So, after my depressing Wednesday, Leah spent the night on Thursday because I was taking her with us to Oregon. =D
We had fun just talking and running around at the park.
We had a Dianic (as close to my religion has it gets) Spell Ritual. It was basically a ritual to banish past and recent pains. You burn any notes that you've written about yourself, and any notes that will cause negative thoughts in the future. I burned all my notes, except for some in my notebook that I forgot about. I kept two songs that I had written about Rachel, though. The songs are really nice, and they don't have to be considered purely applied to her. They could be about anything, really. And I want to keep them. They're good memories of when I was really happy. =D

Okay, now for the Oregon Trip! We went to Newport, Oregon. It's a nine to ten hour drive, and Leah and I agreed that we'd go mutiny if we had to drive nine hours there and back. xD So, we decided to stop at Yreka, which was half way to Oregon, and stayed at a Best Western that my mum, sister and I stayed at last time we all went to Oregon two years ago.
Then we continued our drive all the way to Newport, which was five and half hours. We had a GPS, which my dad adores, and we named it The Slut. xD We got the idea because my uncle calls his GPS The Bitch. =]
So, my mum would not listen to the damn GPS, and got us lost quite a few times. In the end, I had to pretend to be the GPS and tell mum what to do so we could get back on track. x3
When we finally made it at the Embarcadoro (the resort we were staying at for the week) it was exactly has I remembered from the last time. :) The resort is right next to the ocean, and it had crab docks, which Leah and I went to nearly every night. It's so pretty when you're floating on a dock right by the sea. =D

So, this is what we did:

We went down the street to the shopping strip that was right next to the ocean. It was a really long line of stores on each side of the street, which meant we had to split the shopping into two days, or we wouldn't make it to all the stores. xD We ate at Mo's and I had Oyster Stew.
We also went across the big bridge to an Aquarium, which was pretty big. After we finished up with the Aquarium, we went shopping in a little villa-like area that had tons of interesting shops. Unfortunately, most of them were closing up by the time we got there, so we had to make another day to come back.
We went to an outdoor mall to go shopping some more, and had a lot of fun running around the stores being retards and trying things on. xD
We went back to the shopping strip by our resort, and Leah and I went to Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum-thing, the Wax Museum, and the Undersea Gardens (which was a big building with a gift shop on the ground floor. When you went down below, you were in a large room that had tons of windows so you could see what was ten feet under the water.)
All in all, we did a lot of looking, but not a whole lot of actual buying when we shopped. We bought what we liked, but most of the time we never really found something that we would actually wear/use. xD
In the end, I bought a little vest that looks good when worn over dark colors (haven't tried light colors yet); a necklace that has a little dagger hidden in it, for self defense; a Japanese Steel Shogen Fan, which is a form of a defense weapon, also (but I'm using it for decorative purposes right now); a glass calligraphy pen that was hand-made and some ink for it; and a few other little thing. =D

Well, that's all for now. I'll post later on about other things. =]

~Duani Y