Day 7

We got up all lazy and made eggnog French toast, pretty delish. Didn’t really know what we wanted to do so we decided to take the bus pretty far in its route to the target/k-mart/wal*mart area. Oh but first we went to a thrift store that had a whole front lot of free stuff, I get some good finds, so did Jeremiah. We went and saw a movie, Ninja Assassin, um it was all right. There was an Australian family of seven on the bus they were mildly amusing. After the movie we were waiting for the bus in this grassy area and this exactly (it was his b-day, he thinks) 60 yr. old guy who is natively Alaskan, asked us for a quarter. He commented on my cross necklace and the weather and Nam, and how we should say away from the gov’t and go to college. He was very laid back and chill and harmless and thankful. He used my cell phone and Jeremiah gave him a shirt, which he put on immediately and threw out his old one. One thing led to another and we somehow ended up repeating the lords prayer together. It was cute. I didn’t know what to think at first, was he going to try and sell us drugs? Take our stuff? No he just wanted to chat, didn’t demand much, kept telling us what nice kids we were, he could just tell. It was like ten minutes, but when we walked away from him I felt so peaceful land Zen and relaxed, he just had that effect of everything is going to be okay, it was really nice. Then we went to Tai food, which was overpriced and made me long for Tai beer in Salem. We had time to kill before the bus and managed to find Internet in the grass in front of L&L Hawaiian Barbeque (kind of a chain here) so I frantically updated some stuff. Then we went to the grocery store and got remedy ointment for our ridiculous amount of bug bites, like at least 30 each. There were theses four or five groups of ten people dressed in Christmas running clothes out fits on some sort of scavenger hunt, they ran all over, I took some pics, it twas amusing. Also while waiting for the bus (which never comes!) there was a girl with the red Salvation Army bucket-playing ukulele and singing, she was pretty good. We ended up hitchhiking home with this guy with a purebred Doberman. He says he is a bodyguard for Dog the bounty hunter and is in about seven episodes and so is his dog, we’ll have to look that up. He’s like the only native who shows up in the show or something. So we came home and that’s where I am now, kind of a waste of a day off, it was so muggy here today, air just moist, no sun, anyway back to work tomorrow, we have guests so that means making the dreaded breakfast and potentially cleaning rooms, which is nice alone time, should be good.