The following two entries are combined due to us getting home a day early and trying to surprise some of our friends, thus making me a day late.

Day 19:

Boise, Idaho: I’m sure your construction workers are very nice, but they sure can’t direct traffic, and the fat kid just doesn’t want to get in the pool! Today was a traveling day for the majority of it, so not too much was happening; as you will see below I slept for a bit. We went through Baker City and had hoped to hook up with a friend, but he’d been called out for a forest fire so that unfortunately didn’t happen. However, we did stop at a quaint-looking (from the outside, at least) Dairy Queen for some food. Then we carried on our way to Seattle, with not too much else happening (we did see a cool sign or two, though!).

Once we arrived in Seattle, though it’d been a long day we decided to go to Mars Hill; I’d talked about it a couple months ago so the plan that morning had been to attempt to catch the 7:15 service at the Ballard campus, which is the largest of MH’s campuses. We got there and it was such a blessing. The message was also great and we’d recommend you listen/watch it. It’s entitled “It’s All About Jesus: Humility” and you can find it on the Mars Hill Seattle website.

After that it was pretty late, so we headed back to the hotel and crashed for the night.

Day 20:
Got up early and drove. Saw a creepy truck. More driving. Stopped at outlet stores. Drove some more. Took a ferry. Drove even more. Petro Can! More driving. Ricky’s! Drive drive drive. Fireworks!

That was, in a nutshell, our day today, and though we are back in the valley we have not yet arrived home. Our friends who have been house sitting for us informed us that the house isn’t tidy enough yet for us to go home, so that combined with the fact that we weren’t supposed to be home until tomorrow means we’re crashing at Keltie’s parents’ place tonight.

All in all it’s been a great trip, but we’re glad to be (almost) home, so now look at some pictures