hello everyone!
I am back at West Coast beginning my sophomore year of Bible college. Classes (the one day of them that I have had anyway) have gone well. This year I am taking Pastor's Wife, Child Development, Romans, Daniel & Revelation, Philosophy of Christian Education, Life of Christ, Choir, and Christian Womanhood. Dan&Rev and Romans are both going to be intense classes I think, but I (think!) am ready for the challenge! lol =)
(Check on me in a couple weeks and see if I am saying the same thing. I am reading the book of Romans 15 times and outlining Dan&Rev verses by verse! Those are only two of the projects I have this semester!)
So, want to hear how my drive out to CA went????
WELL..... my parents allowed me the privilege of driving out by myself this semester. It is a 10 hour drive, give or take - I made it in 12..... how, do you ask, did that happen?
The drive through the middle of Utah was kinda boring - pretty flat and not much to look at - and I got sleepy a couple times(it was warm too), but it was okay. I got to the south and things got much prettier, especially around the Moab and Bryce Canyon areas. Then I slipped through a tiny piece of Arizona, which was also very pretty, before entering into Nevada. At my first glance around in NV, I thought that the drive would be much easier because of the scenery.... PSYCH! (lol or just kidding) It became very flat - again. lol
The real adventure began when my car over heated about 20 minutes outside of Las Vegas. I called my dad and he told me to roll my windows down, turn the heater on, and pull over at the next exit.
The next exit was about a mile away and when I turned off, I was looking at a medium size building. I later found out that it held the gas station, a truckers' lounge, an Indian style restraunt, a general store, and a casino. I found a security guard who was able to help me with my car and he had me wait for about an hour so that my car could cool down a bit. He didn't want it blowing up in our faces when checking the radiator and whatever else he was going to check (I am NOT car - literate!)
So I hung out a while. Apparently the guard thought I was at least 21 because he told me that I was welcome to the casino in the back (weird, I know).
After about an hour, he (I'm sorry - his name is Eric) came back and we went out to go check my car. I didn't loose any radiator fluid (which is surprising, I guess) so he said to continue on to Vegas and to stop if I had anymore issues. He also asked me to turn the car on just to make sure it all sounded good. I put my purse into the car and came back out with a tract. We talked for a few minutes and it turns out that he goes to a Christian church on the reservation (his words, not mine - no idea what kind of church it is, but he took the tract). We said our good-byes and he walked back into the building. I turned to my car to open the door that I had shut after getting the tract. Guess what I found out?????
Yep, I locked my keys in the car......it's really embarrasing, but I did it. My car was running and the heater was still going from earlier. I hadn't cried up until this point but I was now. (Cry baby or not, I was annoyed with myself) I called my parents and my dad said to go back and get the security guard to come back and let me back in. Thankfully, my dad had told me to roll the windows down earlier, so Eric was able to open my door. I left soon thereafter before anything else could happen.
Dad said I would be laughing in 30 minutes after it was over (he told me this while I was crying on the phone). It wasn't 30 minutes later, but I do laugh about it now. (So do my friends....)
Well, that was the exciting part of the trip. My car is fine and hasn't overheated since. We think it happened because it was about 115 degrees and I had my AC running. Who knows. If anything, I have a good laugh-at-Kaitie story that will be used for illustrations in the future.
I did make it to Victorville, where I spent the rest of the weekend with some family friends.
Well, got to run, but I will blog more later. Night
