Our White House: Idaho: The Potato State!

My parents and Grandma were all in Idaho this past week, which meant that I was obligated to drive down with Professor X to see everyone. Here are some Highlights (and Lowlights) of the trip:

The Professor sleeping most of the 7hour 35 min journey (Awesome!)
The journey actually taking 10 hours (not awesome!)
The car getting 40 mpg (SWEET!)
Being viciously attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes at a rest stop in Oregon (one of the lowest points of the trip)
My Grandma meeting her first great grandson for the first time (Tubular!)
My mom deciding that we must revisit every single home and school and church she ever lived in/attended while living in Idaho (VERY BORING!!)
The weather being 85+ degrees every day and sunny (great compared to the 40 degrees and rainy it has been in Seattle)
No working a/c in any house we stayed in so the Professor being perpetually grouchy (Sucky!)
Me getting an awesome haircut for $12....the first haircut since the Professor was born (HOORAY!!!)
No one noticing said awesome haircut..including Gawain (really? It looks so much better than before!)
The Professor crying almost nonstop because he misses Gawain/is burning hot/hates ancient people...(really I felt like a single parent because I had no relief at all...you guys rock and how do you do it????)
My little sister (who actually isn't that little...16 and supermodelish in height and looks) coming home to spend 10 days with us (Its going to totally rock!)
Listening to Eclipse by Stephaine Myer so I can have an intelligent book club recap with Isabel (very convenient for a 10 hour drive)
Almost vomiting about a billion times over really how cheesy the book is...and cursing it because I can't stop listening to the drama over the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob (really...Bella is kind of a whore...and clueless most of the time)