The Disney Log

Log 39

October 12, 2019 Saturday

I had a bit of a hard time sleeping last night. Guess I'm too used to sleeping in queen-size to be able to sleep on a twin. But Lillian's alarm is also to blame. It woke her up so she could take her allergy pill. It wasn't like I was gonna get much sleep after that anyway. My dad wanted us to go to Death Valley, so we left early. We had our breakfast of apple cider donuts from Red Barn while filling up on gas. Funny enough, I remember that gas station. We stopped there last year and they had pretty cool goggles. On the way to Death Valley, we actually stopped at Area 51. We saw that it was on the way and figured, why not? It was seeing all the alien stuff at the alien center. There was even a T-shirt of Naruto running pass the bullets. If it wasn't so expensive, I would have gotten it. I couldn't help but feel like I was in Area 52 in the Looney Tunes Back in Action movie. However, the fun died after that. 

We had no service at all at Death Valley. So by the time we did, it was around 3:30 PM. I was REALLY not happy with that because of how addicted I am to the internet. I needed my Twitter and Tumblr! So I was a bit unpleasant with everyone in the same car as me. Another reason why I was so moody was that my period literally just started, right before we left the alien center. My brother made a big mistake in teasing me. I'm sorry, but having your period during a road trip is the worse. The week leading up to this vacation, I was praying that my period would come early so it would either end before leaving Utah or it wouldn't be as bad. For me, the first of my period is the most hurtful. I was also very anxious. With no service, I had no idea where we were and I was afraid that we were going the wrong direction. So teasing me, someone who is in the type of pain that people born male would never understand and also moody and anxious because of having service at all is like poking a bear. They were pretty much asking me to bite their heads off. My dad missed half of the BYU football game that was playing today. He tried to listen to it on his radio, but even the radio signal was bad. No wonder they call it Death Valley. So I guess my dad was miserable during this Death Valley delay, too. Somehow, there were times when my phone would give me notifications on the game, so I kept him updated. However, once we stopped to fill up on gas I gave my dad a piece of my mind about all this. He agreed that this is something we'll never do again. Not because it was stupid, my mom agreed on that one. Once we located a sports bar, all of us in Benjamin's car were so hungry that we stopped at the closest McDonald's. When we got to the sports bar, we all got into the truck and went to the rental house. We left my dad with Benjamin's car so he could stay and watch the game. It took us a bit to find the house because once we got close we lose signal on our phone. But we got there alright. The house we're in is like a cabin. The area is great for people who love the outdoors. But that not me, so I didn't really like it. I REALLY don't like being in the middle of nowhere. It just so suffocating. Sure this place had internet, so I could still watch Netflix, Hulu, and Youtube as well as play games online either my Switch or the Xbox my brothers brought. But I really hate that there is no one besides my family to talk to. And because there's no cell phone reception, I can't call anyone. It's kinda like that house in Wolf Children. But even though this house isn't really meant for me, I'll manage. Once we got all our suitcases out of the truck, I went with my mom and Lillian to Wal-Mart to get the groceries. We originally had an OGP order, but once we saw how far away it was from the house and that there was another Wal-Mart closer we called to cancel the order. And guess what, the Wal-Mart we ended going to also had OGP it just didn't show itself up when mom was placing the order. I could tell that once we realized this if there was a table to flip my mom would have flipped it. And if not her, I would've because we could've saved ourselves some time if had known this in the beginning. Once we got back we all just settled down and unpacked before going to bed. I got a room to myself that had a king-sized bed. It was so huge when compared to my queen bed at home. I always thought I wouldn't be able to sleep in a king-size until I was married, but here we were. Space was nice, but it felt a bit hard. Like this was the bed meant for Papa Bear ... Maybe that's why it's so big. It's officially, I'm in the house of the three bears and I'm Goldy Locks.