On the Road Again…

Just pulled out of Ann Mayes’ alpaca farm, which was probably my favorite place to stay out of the two we actually did stay at. She and her mom live in two different houses, but they’re right next door to each other so it’s really just one whole property. They both have a lot of dogs- Great Peers for guard dogs, a Lab, a little terrier, a Cocker Spaniel, and another dog that I don’t know the breed of. Her mom also has a cat named Holly that has a face that looks like she ran into a wall in a bad mood and it stuck that way. They’re all really friendly, except for the Great Peers, of course, because they’re guard dogs.

She also has a LOT of alpacas! (You can see some of them in the picture to the left.) I was surprised to find out that most of them were white, but she did have some dark brown, black, and fawn. They’re all really funny to watch, and they’re all really soft. (Not quite fluffy because I think they were just sheared recently.)

I mostly stayed at Anne’s mom’s house while we were there, and we talked for a while about things like horses, where I live, and what we saw on the road. Then I went outside and met Odie, a huge witish-yellow lab that will probably lick your face off if you let him. He was my buddy all night, and he pretty much woke me up the next morning, even though I really wanted to sleep in.

So this morning we loaded our four suri boys into the trailer- Big, Magic, Mushroom, and Dewey. Big is self-explanatory, Magic is the smallest, Mushroom is really weird because he has one blue eye (he always reminds me of Mad-Eye Moody from Harry Potter), and Dewey is the normal one. They’re all really freaked out- humming like crazy (because they don’t know the words). Big is the huge whiner. He might even be up there next to our alpaca at home- Moonstruck. If you even touch Moonie’s feet he screams like he’s being skinned alive.

Still trying to keep myself occupied in the car. I think I may try to get a hold of my friend back at home, Shannon, as soon as she gets out of church, which is probably only ten minutes longer. Then we can talk and I won’t be bored for a while, unless we run out of things to talk about. Which is actually pretty likely.

One of the things that I’m looking forward to when I get home is my ocarina that I ordered. If you don’t know what an ocarina is, it’s kinda hard to describe. There are two major types of ocarinas, maybe three (I don’t know the name of the other one), sweet potato and pendant. Sweet potatoes are pretty self-explanatory- they’re shaped like sweet potatoes and have anywhere from four to twelve holes to put your fingers over. Pendant ocarinas are also pretty easy to figure out, too- small, circular and about two inches in diameter with four or five holes. Me? I’m getting a pendant ocarina! I’ve been waiting for it to come in the mail for two weeks already.

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Wow, I left that post up all day. I’m writing now from about ten miles from my house, feeling VERY relieved to be home again.

Haha, everything electronic that I brought with me is almost out of batteries. The laptop’s battery is in the red zone, (even though I still have a little over half an hour of juice left), my iPod is on its last few dribbles, and the light on my DS is red. I’m using these suckers until they won’t turn on anymore!

It’s about 7:40 right now, so we should be home by 8:00, then I’ll put this up! So, if you’re reading this, I can tell you right now it’s after 8:00 p.m.

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