The Perfect Summer

~The Road Trip~

I was packing my clothes when I get a text from Lilly.

L~ r u ready yet? I'm sooooo excited aren't u!??

V~ I'm almost ready I have a few more things to pack ill b @ ur house in a few and yesss I'm super hyped about this trip!!!

L~ ok V, see u in a few!! xoxo
I put my phone down and zip my suitcase. I look at the clock on my wall. 11:03 am. It's a Sunday morning in the end of May. Lilly and I finished school 5 days ago and we are already leaving for the entire summer. Somehow, no clue how, but somehow our parents are 100% ok with us leaving and traveling that far by ourselves. Lilly and I live in Tennessee and we are vacationing in California ( Yeah that's right we are gonna be Cali girls for 2 1/2 months! YAY!). So we are traveling, by car (or Jeep, but whatever), approximately 2,161 miles (32 hours) by ourselves.
I put my things in my Jeep, climb in the driver seat, connect my phone to the aux cord and blare Kevin Gates (yes I listen to rap. I know sounds strange). I back out my driveway, after a quick good-bye to my parents, to go pick up Lilly.
I pull into Lilly's driveway and park in my usual spot. I grab my phone, walk to their front door and before I can knock the door flies open and Lilly darts out and bear-hugs me.
"OMG! I cant believe the day it finally here! I'm so excited!", Lilly says as I pry her arms off my body.
"I know! I'm so excited too", I say as I walk past her into her house. Her parents are sitting in the living room watching the morning news. I walk upstairs to her bedroom and plop onto her bed as she throws her messy hair into a bun. I get up and start grabbing her suitcase and a few carryon's, walk to my Jeep and set them in the backseat. Lilly runs down the stairs with the rest of her luggage, throws her arms around her parents quickly and jogs to my car. She jumps into the passenger-seat, throws the bags she was carrying in the back and waits excitedly for me to get back in the driver-seat. I back out of her driveway and Lilly reaches for my phone to blare the playlist we made for the road trip. Then she pulls out her own phone and starts snapping pictures of us. We both laugh because we both know we look horrible.
We are 3 hours into the trip and this is our first time stopping for gas. We both climb out the Jeep, and as I pump the gas Lilly goes inside and buys skittles, M&M's , a huge bag of Lays potato chips, two cokes and two bottles of water. She walks out the store proudly as I finish filling the Jeeps gas tank. We climb into the jeep and open the bag of chips. I back out of the parking lot and make my way back to the highway. I grab one of the cokes she bought and open it. I take a few sips and then turn our Road Trip Playlist back on full volume.                                                                                              

          About 11 hours later, we are in Oklahoma. We make another stop for gas and this time Lilly buys two extra large Icee's (EXTRA LARGE?).
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           Twenty-two hours and five gas stops we arrive in California. We pull up directions to our condo in Los Angeles. We arrive at our condo and check into our room and start to haul to luggage up to the suite. we unpack a few things the change into our swimsuits. we head down stairs and hop into my jeep and we are off to the beach as official Cali Girls!