Diary Trip

I’ve never felt so much excitement, but at the same time uncertainty with anything until now. My bro, mom, and I are going to travel across the country to go see my grandparents and stay for Christmas. We live in Seattle, Washington and our grandparents live in Charlotte, North Carolina. My dad is going on a business trip during the break and that’s why he isn’t coming. I don’t really want him to come anyway because he’s been a jerk ever since he became my mom’s new husband. We should be flying but our family is struggling with money and my mom hasn’t had a job since, well I can’t even remember.

To be honest I’m kind of glad that we are leaving town because I’m tired of being in Seattle. Ever since we moved from Santa Barbara, California things have been down and my mom has been depressed ever since. I think we all just need a break of the stress from a bigger city and the adapting to it all. When I think of it nothing really matters anyway since we’re leaving for a week and a half. I just need to relax and go with the flow.

My little brother, Andre, is so annoying and I hate being around him because all he does is make stupid noises and scream. I don’t remember the last time I had a civilized talk with the kid I mean, he’s twelve years old and he still doesn’t know how to tie his own shoes. This is going to suck having to sit next to him for the next five days. My mom on the other hand is
actually similar to my little bro. She could care less about anything; all she wants is her life to be like it used to be in Santa Barbara. I kind of feel bad for her but at the same time I think, “Suck it up”, because Andre and I are fine. Like no joke, for some reason she starts to cry at random points while driving and it’s the weirdest thing. As you know time flies so we have already started our cross country trip to North Carolina. “Wow, we are already in Boise, Idaho,” Andre yelled with some weird excited voice. I swore we were only in the car for like an hour. Finally after needing a break we went into a Shell station and I got a Sprite and a bag of Doritos. I know it isn’t going to hold me over until our next stop but whatever.

I’ve never felt so bored in my life. We’ve sat in this car five hours non-stop since stopping in Idaho and I’m starving. My little brother didn’t go to the bathroom when we stopped. He said he forgot but I think he’s just lazy. He was too scared or something because we offered to let him off at the side of the road, but he didn’t want to even though his face was bright red and he was doing the potty dance in his seat. I think he ended up peeing in pants though because soon enough he was asleep drooling on my sleeve and he smelt horrible after he fell asleep. I’m pretty sure I told you he was twelve right? I’m sort of second guessing myself for coming because when I think of it, this is totally not worth it going to my grandma’s house to sit around the fire, and listen to stories from way back when. I’m not saying my grandparents aren’t cool, I’m just telling you that they need to step into this generation and get an Xbox. We have arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming and I don’t want to go on. I feel like I’m going puke because it has been a non-stop travel pretty much and that’s way too long for me. We to can’t afford a hotel so that makes matter worse. I really wonder how my mom feels driving non-stop because I keep
thinking we might swerve off the road and crash because she’ll fall asleep while driving. I don’t bother to ask her because she is in one of her moods and she’ll go berserk if I knock her out of it, I guess it her peaceful time. My IPod has already run out of battery because I have been listening to music and playing games and I forgot that drains out the battery. So I’m pretty much writing this just to write it because I’m crazy bored.

So we’re driving right then all of a sudden my mom’s head hits the stirring wheel because I think she just passed out from exhaustion and our car going flying off the road. We hit this sign and fell into a ditch. The first I thought was is my mom ok so I called 911 because we were stuck in the car. My mom was knocked out and my bro was balling his eyes out because he had no idea what was going on. Good thing I was wearing my seatbelt because I usually never wear it and I would of gone flying through the front window if I hadn’t. I guess God has something special for me or something because I got so lucky. Well it turns out we are in Kansas once the police, ambulance, fire truck, and all that other helpful stuff finally came and told us. I knew we would screw something up during this trip but half away across the country isn’t so bad to finally mess something up. When we were first leaving I thought we would already be dead by now. The good thing that comes out of all this is that we get a free night hotel is a room. When we got there I knew from first sight this is would be the worst hotel in Kansas, but sometimes you get what you get and don’t throw a fit. However I threw a fit because our room smelt like urine, had a dead rat in the corner, and the beds were basically a pile of dust. The room looked like it was from the 1700’s.


I have ten dollars to myself that I brought with me on the trip and I had no idea what to spend it on. So for some reason I decided to ask my mom if she could get me a lottery ticket. She said yes (which she never does), but I think it is from the pills the doctors gave her to clear headaches and that sort of stuff. So she is like half asleep and is as stupid as a baby. Well we decided to buy the tickets and wait for pure luck all night until the numbers are posted on the internet. Well, to make a long story short we end up winning like 2,000 thousand dollars which is unbelievable. My mom like peed her pants and I think my brother did too sadly. What a disgrace of twelve years. For some weird reason at that moment I thought of the idea of getting plane tickets.

My mom was uneasy about the idea but she finally gave up in to my idea. This would be the first time my brother and I have been on a plane and I am actually pretty excited. We went to the airport and we got there late because we had no idea what to do or where to go but we made it to our flight. We got to Charlotte in about two and a half hours but when we got there no one was there to bring us to our grandparents’ because we didn’t let them know we were going on a plane. So we had to wait 3 hours at the airport for them to pick us up. Then I started to think about how we would get back to Seattle since we wasted our money on the plane tickets and trashed our car in Kansas. To be honest I don’t think we planned it out too well. However, as a family we always find a way no matter how unusual, crazy, or lucky to get the job done.