July 30

Before I started creating this blog, I didn't check the last time I posted. I know it was a while ago. Things have been so great that it is hard to find time to get to the public computer, since mine crashed, to post on here. Work has been really busy, but busy is good . I get to talk to people from all over the world. I had the chance to use my German knowledge with an old german couple the other day. Like most travelers, they where having difficulty understadning american currency. So I used my german knowledge and talk to the older german couple, saying the total and change back in german. Another thing at work that happened that was both weird and odd was that I saw someone from my Highschool come through our line. Not just NDCL but from my actual graduating class! we both recognized eachother right away and it was just a small world feeling after that.
    Im getting more and more hiking in and I love it. I made it a goal to try and do all the park hikes this summer and since i've posted Ive done two more. One of the hikes is called cleetwood. It was one of my most straneous hikes i've ever been on. 1.2 miles down and 1.2 miles up. It was intense and of course I picked a hot day to do it. Cleetwood is one of the better known trails because you have to complete this trail to go on a boat tour around the lake. I havnt gone on a boat tour yet, which I will have to do the trail again because I will be going on a boat tour before the summer comes to an end. The other trail is called sun notch, which is one of the easier ones listed. it is only about 3/4 of a mile and takes you to the top of a peak over the lake facing west for sunsets. It was really pretty.
    Since I covered a shift for one of my co-workers I got to have wednesday, thursday and Friday off so I wouldn't go into over time. I was completely fine with this because I worked a ton and I just needed to get off the mountain. Somehow I managed to find a yurt on the coast for thursday night. Yurts are like giant TPs that are in the state parks, usually parks that are off the 101. Yurts are a hot item, I called 7 phone numbers before I could find an available one for Thursday night. Everyone who was planning on coming was feeling the same anticipation that I was wednesday night. Everyone wanted to get off the mountain, we where all ready for our weekend. So even though we didn't have a room or place to crash on wednesday night, we left anyways. We made our way way to Bandon, which is a small port town off the 101, which was also where park was that had our yurt for Thursday night. The drive there was through the Umpqua national forest and it was beautiful. we drove through the base, along the side of a river, of super high cliffs that had lime green moss all over the edges. I've never seen moss so lime green. It looked fake. Also, along the way we drove through a little town called myrtle point, which happend to be having their town fair. my freinds and I decided that this was the perfect place to pull over for dinner. There is nothing better than a fair corn dog for dinner! The fair was tiny, but they had an elephant which was cool! When we finally got into Bandon we found a motel, the shooting star motel to be specific and all 5 of us crashed in a standard double bed exhausted. The next morning I couldn't wait to go to the beach, I woke everyone up, we got breakfast and made this great game plan. We where going to the beach for a few, then go to the sea lions caves, check into the yurt and be back to the beach just in time for low tide. The only thing that happened in this master game plan was that we went to the beach. We got there and decided to stay the entire day. The pacific was pretty cold but with the help of the cooler connie gave me ( THANKS CONNIE), the pacific was managable after a few beers. The five of us had a great time, the yurt was awesome we cooked our dinner over the fire, did some shopping in the old port town and made our way to the sea lion caves on our way back to the Crater. The sea Lion caves where coool, you get into this elevater that takes you 200 feet down into a cave where all the sea lions hang.  The drive back continued to be an adventure, as if the coast wasnt one already, we pulled off at some point on the way home and decided to do a river walk, which ended up to be a river swim. It was so nice to float down the river. I'm not really sure where we where, but the river was so clean and so fresh, we delayed our travels home by a good hour and a half. 
   As for the rest of the week, I have no plans except for my 40 hour work week. I might head into Klamath falls with anne on Sunday and I might hike Annies  Creek Trail, but I have no clue. The only other thing that I'd like to see happen is heather have her baby so I get to see pictures! and Skype because I GOT MY COMPUTER BACK. I'm looking forward to skyping with everyone, including fin. This way fin won't have to send me a lock of his hair in the mail.