Drew Bonner: Day 24: Fourth of July

Today was the 4th of July! Everyone had to wake up at 6 am this morning to get individual pictures taken. So that means I had to get up and 6 because everyone else had to. I went and ate breakfast and waited for things to get a little settled down and then I fell asleep again. I slept until 9 and it felt amazing. Dare I say it was the best nap of my life. I woke up and started helping out with parade preparations. I was on the Mobile Hydration Unit (MHU). I basically followed them in the parade and helped fill water bottles.

After the parade we had a quick lunch and drove to a kind of community festival at a pretty cool park looking over a half dried up lake.

The crowd loved the show. After we were done, we were allowed to walk around for a little bit. They had the usual festival food. Funnel cake, fries, Hawaiian shaved ice. We got on the busses and prepared for the long haul from Seattle to Boise, Idaho. It's a 12 hour ride according to the bus driver, Mark. I'm just going to let the pictures tell the story of the drive. It was cool because we don't normal drive during the day, so I'm starting to wonder what I have been missing because of the dark.

We got to the top of a ridge and then started going down the other side. Here's what we saw. Pretty cool.

I can't really explain what the landscape was like. It looked almost whimsical. Like something out of a children's book about a family that lives in the mountains somewhere. They looked like giant sand dunes. But they weren't. It was cool. I never realized that eastern Washington was like a desert. There was nothing really around. Hardly any houses. Not many buildings. Just land.

We stopped at a rest stop at the bottom of the mountain pass. Night set in. And we pulled out. We were able to catch some fireworks from on the bus.