Catch-up Journey

It has been a ridiculous amount of time since my last blog, which is crazy considering I've actually been on some journeys lately! Since my last blog, I have graduated college, started training for my summer job, watched my best friend get married, and...oh yeah, MOVED TO SEATTLE!

So here I am, on an actual Moon Journey. For the first time in awhile, my blog title actually fits. Amazing. My waiting period has concluded, and here I am, sitting in my teeny-tiny Seattle studio that I share with Isaiah, watching Harry Potter, and avoiding some make-up training I have to do.

Setting has changed, habits have not. Imagine that.

What the adventure Isaiah and I have been on the past week. How about some pictures? Sounds fun, right? Right!

First of all, a picture of the bridal party I was a part of last Sunday afternoon:

Ashlee and I couldn't help but be best friends, it was in our genes. Our mothers have been best friends since middle school, there was no way around us becoming like sisters to each other. It was a beautiful wedding, and a really great day. And the best part, my best friend got to marry her best friend. Plus, there was dancing. I love dancing. Not that I'm any good at it, but still.

The next day, I drove to Sioux City and picked up Isaiah. Sadly, I have no pictures of this. That's okay, I have a picture of us in my drive way the morning of our departure:

We decided our journey would be "Wizard of Oz" themed, considering my car's name is Dorothy. So our GPS became Toto, I was the Scarecrow (trust me, at times it seemed like I didn't have a brain), and Isaiah was the Tinman (he likes to pretend like he doesn't have a heart, but in all actuality, it's pretty wonderful, if not slightly sarcastic and a little grumpy sometimes). Our journey consisted of meeting up with the Cowardly Lion, our friend Dan, in the Emerald City, aka Seattle. What an interesting journey it turned out to be.

Our first day took us through a chunk of Nebraska and into South Dakota, ending in the Black Hills at Mount Rushmore:

It was really neat, but in all actuality, a little silly. What a grandiose form of patriotism. I won't lie, not the most patriotic person in the U.S. Not that I don't like living here, but I figure there are enough people overly patriotic to make up for my lack of waving a U.S. flag around proudly. The idea of carving giant Presidents' faces into a mountain seriously brought up the thought, "Only in the U.S..." Eh, whatever floats South Dakota's boat. I'm glad we went though, it was neat.

Day two started with a visit to another group of people carving a face into the mountain, this time it's Crazy Horse, and he's not yet finished. When he is, Crazy Horse will be so big that all four of Mt. Rushmore's faces will fit into his long flowing hair. Crazy big Horse.

We made it out of South Dakota, through a corner of Wyoming (super boring corner, by the way), and into Montana. We loved our drive through Montana. It is so beautiful there.

Those are mountains behind those clouds. Neat, right? The only problem with driving through mountains? Our ears hated us.

On day three we made it out of Montana, though the panhandle of Idaho, and into Washington.

It was very rainy when we got to Idaho. Isaiah wouldn't get out of the car, so this was taken through the windshield.

We stopped for the night in Spokane, Washington, a city my brother loves from his visit a few years ago. He suggested going to a really neat coffee shop called Atticus, based on the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Super cool coffee shop. We also saw a really, really terrible play at the Spokane Falls Community College. Seriously, awful. We felt so bad for hating it so much.

The next morning we made the final four and a half hour trek to our destination: Seattle. We were a little surprised by what central Washington looks like, not at all what our expectations were, but beautiful nonetheless.

Once we got to Seattle, we didn't actually take any pictures. Crazy, right? Once I clean our apartment again, I'll take some pictures maybe.

So far, we have seen a really fun play at the theatre Isaiah has his internship at, hung out with Dan a couple times, moved in, unpacked, and done all that fun stuff. Then I had to dive into online training again, and Isaiah got sucked into "Dr. Who." He's half way through season two after two mornings and early afternoons of hanging out while I trained. I told him to go do something fun, but he insists that watching TV shows on his Ipad is fun. Whatever.

We haven't done much exploring of Seattle yet, but we will have time for that eventually. Right now, it's just exciting to be here. And I'm so glad I'm here with Isaiah, he's a pretty great friend and roommate. So far, at least.

I have so much to do tonight, yet watching Harry Potter seems like so much more fun. Seriously, I have tomorrow to pack, right? I mean, it's not like packing for New York City will be hard, right?

Yeah, sure.

Until next time, take a journey. I know I will!