THE LAST AND FINAL.

This whole road trip has been a memory that I will never forget and will be talking about for multiple years to come. We were talking and came up with a conjoined list of our favorites:
-Whale Watch
-Diver Ed ocean expedition
-Mount Katahdin
-Driving through states with "new driving rules"
-Biking in Acadia
-Niagara falls
-All Ivy League schools (I think Dartmouth was the prettiest)
-9/11 memorial
-Most of all, ALL THE TIME IN THE CAR TOGETHER.
Thank you to everybody who read this blog to keep up with us or even is just visiting now to see how it all turned out. Don't hesitate to ask us about it if you see us at school, work, or just casually walking the streets. I'm so glad I got this last chance before having my own license to spend this time with my dad. It was a great ending to our road trip journey and as for the rest of our lives, The Adventure is Only Beginning.

Day 32. Kinda.

We saved the best for last! Which is what my lovely sister wanted to start this blog with. We are nearing the end here folks. Before the noon hour today we went to a creamery in Penn State which is not an Ivy League college so it was less interesting and exhilarating. Then we went to the last thing on my dads list of "Things I want to do on our road trip" list. It was the flight 93 crash sight of 9/11. It was very moving and impacting so see all of the heroes that lost their lives. We think the most touching one was a lady who had to reschedule from the day before for thunderstorms to this flight. Right now we are spending some time with my sister, Liesa, Niall, and the boys, Aram and Reijer. I am typing while they battle away at the toy lego video game?... Classic. Hang in there everybody who is reading! It is almost the end.

Day 32. Kinda

DAY 30!!!!!

Me and my father have been on this glorious trip for a month now! It has gone SO fast and has been filled with memories I am sure not to forget. This afternoon we went into town to rent some bikes. We then took those bikes on an approximate 15 mile ride in Acadia National Park. It was so fun to do something different and be outside by the lakes and trees. After we got back we had to go back to some stores we had gone yesterday to look for my moms sunglasses. Now after getting back to the hotel we realized we hadn't found the sunglasses but had gotten more clothes... We then went on a kind of boat excursion with a man called "Diver Ed". He would actually go down to the bottom of the ocean with a camera and show us the creatures he was finding. And then he would bring them up to the boat so we could see them closer and he would describe everything. He was so crazy and wack, just like my daddy. It was so entertaining and really fun for all ages. He also somehow found out it was my birthday recently? Thanks dad. So I got a toy lego set and a crab on my head.

Day 30

Day 29

Well this magnificent trip is winding down. Sad face. So yesterday we drove 15 hours up too Bar Harbor, Maine so we are pretty tired for today (well at least me). It's great to have mom here because we can go shopping! We also had a great conversation at breakfast about the dating life of Jane and Paul. It was quite interesting, and entertaining. After that, we took a bus tour around the town and up the Cadillac mountain. Which is the SECOND tallest mountain in Maine behind Katahdin, the one we brutally climbed. We got to go up to the ocean and it's so great to just listen and be near the smells of the ocean, I absolutely love it. After we were done with that, we were all pretty tired. But me and mom were not to tired to do some shopping to end the day.

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Day 27. (August 19)

I added the date because 16 years ago on this day, this lovely publisher arrived into the world. If this was my dad typing he would probably go into multiple different renditions of different "sweet 16" songs. But don't worry.  Well at the beginning of the day I didn't really know what was happening, so we first stopped off at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Which means that besides Hawaii and Alaska, me and my dad have only not been to about 6 state capitals. After that we went to the Three Mile Island, which my mother was interested in. It was apparently some nuclear power plant explosion in the ancient times? Then we came to our hotel in Harrisonburg, Virginia where we opened some presents including my car keys! (scary) Then we headed to their county fair. We are missing our Steele County Free fair in Owatonna so it was fun to be there but I didn't really get why it was so special... until they told me there was a concert. WE SAW THE BEACH BOYS! They are pretty old men but they can still sing! They have so many great songs and it was so much fun. I had a wonderful birthday and I have the best parents in the world.

Day 27

Day 26

JERSEY SHORE BABY! It was sad to have to leave this morning, but we had some good morning boardwalk time in before we departed. On our way to the airport we stopped at "Dickie Dee's" a Road Food diner known for their unique hot dogs. We then arrived at the airport where we waited for Mom/wifey/(Jane)! (Where we did various activities.) She will be a good edition to our adventure. Then my lovely parents surprised me with a trip to Hoboken, New Jersey, home of the Cake Boss! Probably my favorite Cake making Italian family surprise show EVER! We got to the line and thought to ourselves "Oh hey, for being such a popular show this isn't so bad." So after a half hour when we were almost in the door, an employee THEN comes around and asks if everybody has their tickets... we reply with "No?" And he proceeds to tell us that the line really starts across the street. Well another 2 hours later we got in the shop and made our purchases, including my lovely looking birthday cake for tomorrow. It was definitely worth the wait!

Day 26

Day 25

I am living the Jersey Shore experience! This morning we were still in Atlantic City and coincidentally there was an air show that was going on this morning so we walked out to the beach and watched that with our feet in the ocean. We then traveled the short hour trip to Seaside Heights, which is, for those who don't know, the home of the Jersey Shore cast. I really can't tell you why I am fond of this show but this is someplace I quite wanted to go! We visited their cast house, their favorite club and the T-shirt shop that they work at. Fascinating! And if just walking along the boardwalk isn't enjoyable enough, going along with our luck there was also a firework show tonight that was very fun!

Day 25