December Extra Post: Late

I got a camera for Christmas! It's very small, very basic, but I love it! We drove my brother back to Monterey the 26th, all the while I took pictures from the backseat with the school camera I borrowed for the break. It was so boring! There was absolutely nothing but hills, not the pretty scenic ones, ones that are awfully identical, 17 miles away on either side, and mundane. And all through those hundreds of miles of farmland, the plants were dead because you know, winter. I saw a cow that jumped the fence though, that was pretty cool. We never stopped driving, it was mind numbing! Northern California is definitely not the place for me. West Covina was voted the most boring city of Southern California. That is such a lie. As soon as you are past LA, wave goodbye to your precious brain cells, they die along the way north. Monterey was really cracked and scary. I do not want to relive the confusion it took to navigate those streets.

We dropped off my brother and in the morning, we were back on the road. It was so funny, the GPS is completely evil. We wanted to take either the 101 or the 99 back so our brains would be spared the lack of mental stimulation, but no. The GPS took us in a very large circle and sent us back to the 5! It was so frustrating. I was so done at that point.

All in all, I took a lot of pictures, saw a real lake for the first time, and also saw Magic Mountain for the first time as well. I really wanted to take a baby cow because there were so many, but no. Oh well, never doing that again.

This is in the middle of nowhere on our way back. My sister saw a cat.

This is when my brother came to school. Excuse our gross faces.

Photo credits go to the amazing Ms. Bazaldua.