So after a stressful wait in Sydney airport to see if I would get on a flight (which obviously I did, thanks to the wonderful Qantas staff who looked after me so well) and then a long, cramped and practically sleepless 14 hour flight to LAX (thanks to the two big guys beside me who took up all my room and the kid behind me that delighted in making lots of noise and was constantly banging on my chair) i arrived, made my way through customs and found my alaskan airlines flight dad had booked for me when we knew I was on my way out of sydney. I made my first purchase in america- which i'm sure you can all guess what that was! yep, Starbucks ;) a delicious Mocha Coconut Frappe to be exact.
After a nap all the way from LA to Portland I arrived to find Monte and Calvin Chuang there to pick me up, much to my relief as couldn't be sure if dad had gotten through to let them know I was arriving early. but there they were and Calvin made us a lovely dinner before we all headed over to see Chad's basketball game (which they won in the last quarter). after which i went and had myself 13.5 hours sleep! and I'm STILL tired. but just chilling today, which is nice after all the stress and travel over the last few weeks and days.
I am loving the greenery, the cheap EVERYTHING, the beautiful countryside (they had an Elk in the backyard yesterday before I got here!) and looking forwards to it finally getting warmer- at the moment is cloudy, occasionally raining and only a little warmer than Perth's winter. I am told by Monte that there is now only 50 inches of snow at camp, so it is melting...slowly (thats still a meter and a half!) so I'm hoping for sunny warm days to melt the rest of it between now and sunday but I'm not too optimistic! haha
For those of you who know Monte and Darla Torkelsen, they are very well. the boys are growing up fast! Brandon is heading over to Greece for summer school tomorrow for six weeks which is very exciting, and I believe that Chad and Trent will be coming to work at camp this summer. The boys all tower over me now, even Trent who is an 8th Grader. but they are all well albeit very cheeky! I will post photos soon as Darla has asked me to take some family photos before Brandon leaves.
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