On Sunday, June 14th, a nice hot summer day, I got up early to finish my packing and get all my food together. I was getting ready for a week of camping up at Lake Trinity with three of my good friends and one of their moms. Jen and Jo came to my house earlier to help my prepare the food. We were expecting Kate along with her mom to arrive around 8:30, but really turned out that they showed up around 9:00. As they arrived we all scrambled to get our bags and load everything up in the Chinook!! (Kate's mini motor home!!!) The coolest ride around! After getting everything situated we began our journey!! Well we didn't start it quite yet, we still had a few stops ahead of us before we were actually on our way!! The first stop was at a safeway in Rocklin, Evonne, Kate's mom had to pick up a few extra things to hold us through the week. Once we left there we had to make one last stop at a boat store to find the best tube for boating. We found it, and enormous tube that four people can go on!! It was perfect, there were four of us and a four person tube!!! What more do you need??? We left there around 10:00 and headed out to the freeway! This was the actual beginning of our excursion!!!
             Once we left the boat store and got out into open spaces, we only had about four hours of a drive ahead of us!! This was going to be the best road trip ever!! We had tons of food, a t. v, games, everything you needed to entertain four girls!! Everything was going great until about the last 45 minutes of the driving part! We had ate so much that I'm sure we all gained at least ten pounds from all the eating we did. It was really not a good thing that we consumed so much food because we were now on a very windy road. For Kate and I it was no problem but Jen and Jo were getting a little nauseous. They began blowing chunks!!! Good thing there was a bathroom in our vehicle other wise we all would have been sick!! It was extremely dist...