Voodoo Donuts, StumpTown Coffee and Powell's Bookstore

Day Nine (the conclusion): So after leave Multnomah Falls we met Seth and Alleena at Voodoo Donuts… this place was the most unique donut place I have ever been in my life! Every kind of donut you could imagine (and some you probably never would think of J). There where donuts with cereal, bacon, candy, chocolate, caramel, frosting, and sprinkles… there were GIANT donuts and tiny donuts… they had EVERYTHING!!! It was crazy! There was a line in the rain to get these donuts! Fun experience. After that we went to StumpTown Coffee… another fun and unique place. We had a hilarious conversation there about squirrel-goats and bears and all kinds of stuff and then had a good laugh when Sarah sat on the huge glazed donut the three of us girls had bought! It was still good though J! Then just as we were leave a bunch of cops came in and started talking to a man who had come in with a young kid. It turned out that the man had found the kid wondering around and had called the police to let them know he had found a child who was lost. As we pulled out of our parking space we saw a police officer walking in with a women who looked like she was worried to death, we could only assume that this was the mother of the child. When she got to the door, and looked inside she collapsed in doorway and the police officer was trying to help her calm down so that she could go inside. I hope those were the emotions of a mother who had just found a child she had lost not the emotions of a mother who just realized that that was not her child. I can’t even imagine what she must have been going through either way! But the story of the day takes a much lighter tone as we moved to your next destination, Powell’s Bookstore! I wasn’t too excited about it originally but after I got there I didn’t want to leave. This bookstore is three or four floors and each room on the floor has a theme… I found a entire half of a floor devoted to languages and the other half was devoted to Christianity… it was AWESOME! I found a $55 dictionary that I wanted SOOOOO bad… actually I wanted three (one in Arabic, one in Spanish and one in Italian!) $170+ was WAY more then I was able to spend so I settled for an Arabic New Testament, a seven language dictionary and an Italian verb book that translates over 501 verbs in every tense and mood! OMG it is AWESOME!!!!!!!! Sadly we had to leave after only an hour (our parking permit ran out and we needed to get to Oregon). So we said good-bye to Seth and Alleena and headed to Sarah’s aunt and uncle’s house for the night. This time we made much better time then the first time… unfortunately we got stuck in some MAJOR rain but thanks to Bekah amazing driving skills and a little prayer we made it to Oregon safely! Once there we ate a little dinner and headed to bed… well at least Bekah and I did… Sarah stayed up a little while longer and talked to her family! So that is where the night ended. The next day we were in for another LONG drive through California! More to come J

~Heather~

A misplaced post that I found on my iphone

Day Nine (1:38 A.M.): *A note: the following post was originally written on my phone (my phone was less disruptive to everyone’s sleep then typing on my computer J) and was later transferred and edited here. This post belong chronologically between my post about day eight and the morning of day nine. So here it is:

It is now 1:38 A.M. Thursday morning and I am lying in bed in Vancouver, Washington after just updating the blog! The girls and everyone else in the house are asleep and I lay here just listening to the rain and looking out the window. Canada and most of Washington are behind us, as we have begin our descent back to Socal and normal life… I don’t think I’m ready for really life to begin again… What a road I have before me, as do we all. But right now I choose not to think about it… All I want to do is listen to the rain.

~Heather~