Manzanar (oh, apple orchard)

so i probably should have posted this yesterday but when i got home my mom was on the computer, she was doing work stuff...
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so yea... Manzanar! very dusty/dirtness and a bunsh of pokey plants (ouch). it was like any desert :D sandy, we (the 41 students that went) were the first peoplez to actually be taken on a walking tour of the place, there wasnt much 'cause they knocked down everything but the they had the places (blocks, wards) marked the only building was the info place that had a museum-like thing and a gift shop XD haha, yea you heard right (well...read right), a GIFT SHOP, they had some cool stuff (and yes, i bought stuff) so we took a walking tour of the place our tour dude was Derrick Hartberger (i believe he was from Ohio)

(haha) and they were building a replica of one of the halls:

yea, no trespassing :) then we walked some more desert avoiding animal poop XP ew! and glass stuff. (you know? there was sooo many holes on the ground filled with icky-nasty-freaky-looking black ants DX i utterly HATE ants!) take a look at some Manzanar -->

it wasnt much but we got to see block 28 and i took some pictures of the nothing-ness that is now Manzanar

so the ride there was killer! we left Bishop Amat at like 7:30AM or something and we drove for like 4hrs (we watched Wall-E during that time) anad then we stopped at a Shell(?) gas station in the middle of nowhere! and we were there for like 30mins then we got back on the bus and Mr. Rodriguez announced that we were only HALF WAY THERE!

ARGH! i wanted to strangle him! (sorry) but, then i got over it (btw my bus "buddy" was Sharan(sp?) if you can imagine that, we talked about how long this trip was and Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts...blah blah blah :)) and we kept on going. from there we headed to a park to eat lunch ant it was right across from a Carl's Jr.! Mr. Rodriguez just told us not to look to our left :(

so we ate then we got back on the bus and it was only 10mi to Manzanar! (i was dancing on the inside) then we got there, took pictures as a group and started the tour

when the tour was over we went to the gift shop and bought stuff, then back on the bus at 4:22PM and we headed to Bishop, no stops (we watched the Dark Knight) and arrived at 8:00PM :D thus the trip ended...yea, i was glad :D

but i guess it was worth it, haha, i took 98 pics

i might post 'em om MySpace if im not lazy :)

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adios

PS: sorry Manny(sp?) but i thought this was like the most adorable-est thing ive ever seen XD so like on the way back Brian(Bryan, idk) fell asleep like leaning on the window and Manny was sleeping on Brian's shoulder :3 i know, i find the weirdest things cute (mainly the Manny part, sorry Manny i find you very adorable)...i should slap myself for saying that DX

PSS: anyone who knows the peoplez im talking about, i will kill you (jk) if you tell them