The Driving Game

Last night was quite the eventful night. Its nights like these I will miss a lot when I'm gone. Me and Meghan went to go hang out with Steve and Sean. We had no idea what to do. Ideas came up like going to Jump Street, Laser tag, TPing people, watching a movie, board games, and the list goes on. We didn't know what to do. The boys kept wanting to do "the driving game"...  and it didn't quite get our interest at first but when we figured we had nothing else to do and nothing was open at 10:30 on a Tuesday night, we said whatever lets do it! Little did we know where we would end up. The driving game is really pointless. You get in the car and you drive to wherever the car pretty much takes you. Sean explains it like this "you turn right, then left, then right, and see where you end up!" Haha So we get onto the freeway going north on the 101 we come up to the 60 and decide to go east since we never really go out east on the 60 for anything. We thought maybe we should wonder the halls of a hospital, or of a hotel. We didn't know where we were going still or what to do. We Passed Signal Butte road and a few exits later saw a sign for Canyon Lake. Ding, ding, ding we had a destination! The boys told us it was a surprise where they decided to take us but we kinda guessed... what else is out that way? By now it was 11:15 pm and were driving to Canyon Lake. Probably one of the scariest drives of my life! Sean was an excellent diver though! Even with my high pitched gasps around every sharp turn! Props to Sean! It was pitch black! We couldn't see anything that wasn't in front of us. Finally after a million sharp scary turns, Meghan feeling car sick, and listening to 2 of Seans rap CDs over and over we made it! It was just around midnight. None of us had service on our phones so we were praying nothing happened to us! We didn't go all the way down to the dock but just right above it to a look out spot, but clearly we couldn't look out or see anything lol! We got out, took pictures and enjoyed looking up at the millions of stars everywhere. Its amazing how much different it is when you get away from the city lights, and noise. We all couldn't help but think that this is such an amazing spot to just get away and spend some time talking to the Lord. So peaceful and quiet. (at night at least) We sat on Seans hood and chatted about life. Talking about our amazing outfits for Leah's party on Saturday (a circus theme) and what this next year held for us. 1 or 2 cars had come by that night and we didnt pay much attention to them, but when a certain car came by blasting Taylor Swift and driving really slow we got curious. He (yes, HE was totally listening to Taylor Swift) quickly turned around parked on the side of the road, turned on his brights, got out and picked up a rattle snake! Its rattle started rattling like crazy! SCARY! we were walking around the ground earlier,  what if we ran into one!?!?  How did this guy even spot that snake on he side of the road!? What was he doing at 12:30 at night at this lake anyway? (I guess we have no room to talk.. lol) We all went over to check it out and see if this guy was crazy or something. He had a professional camera and snake carrying stick grabber thing. (sorry I don't know the correct word haha) we found out he is a park ranger at night and collects these snakes, draws blood, tags them, and then releases them and does studies on them. Crazy. While we were talking to him some people from the lake drove by and wanted to see if everything was ok. (Again, why were these people at the lake at 12:30 at night!?) They then realized we were checking out the snake. They get out of the car and one of the guys asks to touch it......... really? Its still rattling and freaking out, about to attack someone and he wants to touch it?! He must of been drunk. Or plain stupid. So he grabs the guys professional snake grabber stick and starts poking at it! the snake freaks out and starts like running away or...slithering away further onto the road and it was going fast! The crazy guy kept going after it with stick and poking at it too. Now at this point me, Steve, Sean, and Meghan are like WELL ITS TIME TO GO! We run back to Seans car, Me and Meghan freaking out thinking another snake was nearby about to attack us. So we get in and drive back home! Whew! I don't know why that ranger guy even let that crazy guy use his stick to touch the snake! Or if that guy ever got to really "touch" the snake. CRAZY! It ended up being a really fun night! One I will always remember :) Little did we know where we would end up earlier that night all because of a simple "Driving Game."


<3
Jessica