I was checking the weather underground for what this weeks weather will be for Yellowstone. I should be around mid 70's like 75 - 80degrees for a high and 40's and 50's as a low. I also checked the Allergy/pollen ratings for that area, just because I was curious. The pollen ratings for that area right now are like here, HIGH so some of us who have allergies be prepared and be taking your allergy medication (Erin I know you have allergy meds)(hint hint hint)

Megan from URL @ 09:13 a.m.

We are all in agreement. I will be paying for gas with my credit card and anyone who needs to pay me right away for it can do so. Otherwise, if you would like to wait till the end of the trip that is fine aslo.

Angie from URL @ 11:01 p.m.

Hi To everyone.... First comment... at the bottom the messenger it says that someone is typing a message. I at least wait to see if that or not..If not I sign off. I will wait to see that even if I am very tired and need to go to bed. I just think it is nice for me to wait and see if they are done typing. That was just some FYI for people if you didn't know that already. Yes we were all tired and the convo. was heated and people were angry. Second. I will feel better if I could at least pay the person(s) that are paying for the gas at a breaking point in the middle of the trip. Just because as Kristin stated earlier I want to make sure that I have enough for the gas. And also I know that some of you said to put some aside for the gas. If you know me well enough that does work for me because I a lot of the times forget to do that or start doing that and then at some point in the trip will find that money and go "oh I have x$$$ amount and can use this" So that is why I feel that at least I would like to pay at least at breaking points along the way. I also think you all know how I feel about having just one person pay for the whole trip.(gas wise that is) Because I dont' think that it is fair for the person to pay the credit card bill on it, isn't there interest added in or on the bill(from my knowledge anyway) Even if you pay ontime mplease let me know if I am wrong on this matter oh and I agree with Erin. lets not bring any hard feelings or any part of the small arugement with us on the trip.

Megan from URL @ 10:37 p.m.

Okay. Sorry for leaving the IM conversation last night. I admit, it was a little rushed, but we weren't solving anything--just arguing and getting mad at eachother. I thought that we would do a lot better if we were able to take a breather, calm down and sleep on it. Before anything harsh happened.

And if I do that often, I apologize. On my behalf, I do announce when I am signing off, so if you have more to say, please indicate it beforehand. Or talk with me about it sometime in another chat conversation so that I'm at least aware of the problem. This was the first time someone has brought it up to me.

Anyway. If my signing off offended anyone, I am sincerely sorry. I just know that I was getting pissed and annoyed, as I believe that everyone was, and rather than have the whole thing blow up in our faces and end up not going at all, I would much rather have slept on it.

I really don't care how we deal with the money. I don't care if it all goes on my card. I don't care. Whatever works best for everyone is fine by me.

NOTE TO EVERYONE (myself included)-- Please let's not drag hard feelings into this trip--it will be a hell of a long trip to Yellowstone and back if we do.

erin from URL @ 06:49 p.m.

Ok, so here's what I want to do: To keep it as least complicated as possible, I think one person should pay for the gas the whole time. I will volunteer for that, because I don't feel that it is unfair to me to do it that way. Whoever wants to pay me for gas as we go can do so. Whoever wants to pay me for gas at the end can do so. I just don't want to have to spend alot of time figuring out how much we owe each other. I am also one who doesn't want to (technically) pay for gas until the end. Is this satisfactory for everyone?

Oh, and to clarify, (sorry kristin) but Kristin was the one making comments last night about how much money Megan is bringing and getting from her parents.

Angie from URL @ 05:38 p.m.

In response to your post, I understand that you are angry with us for all leaving you hanging last night. We were all very tired and did not want to continue on fighting. Yes, we realize that you also had to work at 7:00 in the morning but our metabolism isn't like yours so we needed our sleep.

So with what you are saying you want to break up the gas paying every time that we drive to another destination, or have it be paid every time that we drive a long distance? I think I know what you are saying. Here's my thinking, it's just thinking, how about we have somebody pay for one portion of it the way up to Yellowstone, then when we come back have a different person pay for the rest on the way back. I really would be comfortable paying either way. I wouldn't mind having me and you pay for it the way up, just as long as we have all of our monies tallied to find out the correctness of it all.

I don't know, it gets so confusing when we don't figure these things out ahead of time.

I still think that having one person pay the whole gas money thing the way up there and back would be fine, divide by four and then separate between all of us. I have this feeling that I would become comfortable paying along the way too. That way I would know where my money had been to. I know that I am cheap when it comes to trips. I usually hold my money for all its worth. If I have to pay for gas in the end, will I have enough money? I don't like that feeling at all. I guess it would work out for me either way (As the ways that I have mentioned in this post).

Maybe your way, Megan you and I pay for the gas the way up there, all the way to Yellowstone, no little shifts in between, then they will pay for it the way back. Otherwise it will be too difficult to manage in the end or even in between. "blah"

Megan I understand this is your car and everything and that you have issues with it. I hope that your car is fixed and well, it can run and all, especially when we go. Thank you for driving too by the way. Even though if we do end up going, you'll drive part ways, and I guess I will end up driving in those gosh darned mountains.

Kristin from URL @ 07:53 a.m.

First of all I think it is funny how close to date we had last years big fight... second of all If I don't get see that people are at least trying to understand me, I just won't go, yes sounds dumb, but I don't want to have go on a trip with people who are mad at so and so... or have things brought up on the trip that will just trigger someone off and the whole fight will start again. We need to decide how to pay for the gas and take in everyones considerations, not have one way or another.. You guys were rude to just leave me hanging there and can't see that I was typing message... Not picking on just you Erin but you do that to me A LOt and I feel disrespected when you do this to me. I am not just talking about tonight. I also feel "shoved to the side" when certian people don' listen to me.. Also if you guys got this in the conversation or not... I don't know if my car will be available it is currently in the shop and getting fixed. we are hoping it will be done this weekend. Second I want to state that I understand Angie's side of the gas situation. Angie and I am thinking Kristin and Erin think it would be easier for one person to keep pay for all the gas and then take the total and divide it up at that end of the trip and everyone else pay that person at the end. I have a suggestion ANd you all can read it and reply back (I am sure you will) What if we divide the trip up. Say that one person pays for all the gas from Sioux Falls to Buffalo. Since that is where we are staying for the night. Total that amount and then the rest of us divide that price and pay back that person. then either the same person or a second person would pay for the gas from Buffalo to Yellowstone and do the same thing . THen and do the same thing for Yellowstone to Gillette and Gillette To Sioux Falls. We could either have 2 people split the trip or something or each of us could take a section of the trip. It will still be equal and fair for everyone. (explain to me how this won't be) or If we do it that one person pays for all the gas in the trip I don't see Why I or anyone who wants to pay in smaller chunks along they way would be paying less then everyone or more then everyone. And one last thing ANGIE and Everyone STOP GIVING ME SHIT ABOUT MY PARENTS GIVING ME MONEY. I DID NOT ASK FOR THE MONEY, I EVEN SAID TO THEM I WAS PAYING FOR THIS TRIP. AND THEY HAVE SAID THEY WANTED TO GIVE IT TO ME. YOU ALWAYS AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME THAT I GET MONEY WHENEVER I ASK FOR IT OR THAT I GET EVERYTHING PAID FOR. I DO NOT!!! I AM NOT BRINGING $600 Dollars on the trip. ANGIE you told me you thought about 500 for the trip for lodging food, and gas and the other things we do on the trip. THAT NUMBER IS WAY OFF FROM WHAT I AM SPENDING ON THE TRIP. I HAVE NEVER SAID $600 NOR AM I BRINGING THAT MUCH. I WILL be bringing 100-200 in cash on for on the way and the rest of the $$$ I will need will be done by stoping at ATM machines. Before I go you are all planning on staying here right. you need to let me know when you have made that decision.

Megan The one who didn't walk away from it all. from URL @ 11:48 p.m.

I think it's all alright. I know that Megan needed to have all of her stuff moved off her talknjot site by the thirteenth, so her entries are most-likely out of order. (She had talked to me before about it not archiving right all the time sometime last week.)

So.........it's probably okay. If not, we'll find out in a hurry. LOL.

Erin from URL @ 09:39 p.m.

I've got a question for y'all. We are still planning on going to Yellowstone. All of us, right? See I read Megan's page and saw something about Erin & Angie being bitches or something. Is that for this time, or is that for the previous time? I just got a bit confused. Please inform me if anything has changed.

Kristin from URL @ 05:25 p.m.

Where is the freaking map?!? Way to delete the picture MapQuest. Ass-munchers.

Erin from URL @ 08:07 p.m.

Well I thought I blogged in the kitchen but it didn't show up on the web... oh well I guess its not there.

megan from URL @ 07:05 p.m.

I blogged in the kitchen a rather long one I might have to say. and when are you all going to update

Megan from URL @ 11:44 p.m.

oh and nice map dontcha think??

Megan from URL @ 01:23 a.m.

Well I think I have found a new home for my blog. here is the web addy Megan>

Megan from URL @ 01:14 a.m.

Erin thought of you and Corissa when I saw this. no surgery> its a new option verses surgury

Megan from URL @ 10:12 p.m.

The route:

Erin from URL @ 11:05 p.m.

My place will be open Wed. Night if thats what we want to do. Angie good luck

megan from URL @ 09:22 p.m.

Hello Every one My place will be open Wed. Night if that is what you want to do. oh and angie Good luck tmrw

Megan from URL @ 09:15 p.m.

Hello Every one My place will be open Wed. Night if that is what you want to do.

Megan from URL @ 09:15 p.m.

Staying in Sioux Falls the night before (at Megan's place? hint-hint) would be a good idea. Then we could set out early from there and save some drive-time. I'll email or talk to my mom about the driving distance time-wise and get back to you all. xx

Erin from URL @ 12:46 p.m.

I wasn't on MSN last night, because I was tired and wanted to go to bed and didn't want to get talking to anyone, cuz then I would stay up later and stuff like that.

Erin, check on how long it took your parents to drive out there.

I can see about getting the cabin one night earlier. Did we want to get it one night later too? I can't guarantee anything though, it might already be booked.

I will be online for just a short time tonight after work, but then I'm going home and won't be around internet until next week. So if you want to talk to me, call me at my parents.

Oh a thought, maybe we could come down to Sioux Falls Wednesday night. That would save us two hours of driving on Thursday.

On another note, my eye surgery is tomorrow morning! Wish me luck!

Angie from URL @ 07:16 a.m.

As a side note, I really should check this blog more often. I haven't been here forever and look how much I have missed!!! Yikes! I am so out of the loop. How pathetic is that?

Anyway. To bed with me now. Good night, all. xx

Erin from URL @ 12:00 a.m.

Yes. How dare you, Angie!!

Yeah, Megan. I'm still online. But I'm tired now, so I intend to go to bed really soon. But I needed to write a nice email to Jess entailing why exactly I didn't return her phone call, as I was supposed to. Sigh.

Personally, I think we could leave early that morning and reach the Rapid City and Devils' Tower areas in time to do whatever sightseeing we had wanted. I think that we should try to drive the full way the first day so that we won't be driving away our second day, too. Just my thoughts. I can check with my parents to see how they handled it when they drove out there--I wasn't with for that trip, so I don't know. But I do know that they stopped by those areas on the way there. Anyway. Blah.

Erin from URL @ 11:52 p.m.

I don't know I was just thinking that would give us more time on out there then spending more days on the road. and you were on line and didn't talk to Erin or I how dare you. lol But I guess I don't care. I just want to to know days that we are coming back and what time you plan on leaving for From Granite. Erin thought maybe 4 am or something when I talked to her this weekend. but that is up to you guys because I will get to sleep for 2 hours longer. Oh and I think Buffalo cus that would get us closer, but I really don't care

Megan from URL @ 11:36 p.m.

My thinking is that we will not be in the mood to stop at places on the way back. I was thinking that we could leave early Thursday morning. We'd have approximately 9-10 hours of driving to Gillette (from Granite), not including pee/eating/sightseeing stops. We'd need to add on at least a few hours for those. We could get to either Gillette or Buffalo, I don't really care. Buffalo is about another hour(?) past Gillette.

Angie from URL @ 11:16 p.m.

This Might throw a wrench in things, but couldn't we find a place that would take us for the whole time and just spend one day driving, and then hit Devils tower and the black hills stuff on the way back. What day are we planning on being back? And what time are we planning on leaving on Thurs.? I kinda need to know for work.

Megan from URL @ 10:49 p.m.

So we wouldn't just drive to Buffalo? Gillette isn't very far into WY.

Megan from URL @ 10:46 p.m.

Here's the response I got from an email I sent:
The furnishings are beds and a private bathroom (shower, toilet, and sink). The usual desk-dresser unit and a small chair. No cabins have refrigerators. All linens (towels, sheets, blankets) are provided. There are no fire pits outside the cabins. They don't allow cooking inside the cabins.

The place we're staying at has a dining room, cafeteria, and a deli. Other eating places around the park, and there are 49 picnic areas in the park. Fires are permitted only in picnic areas with fire grates. There are fire grates in the following picnic areas: Bridge Bay, Cascade Lake Trail, East Lot (Old Faithful Area), Grant Village, Nez Perce, Norris Meadows, Snake River, Spring Creek and Yellowstone River. Stoves may be utilized for meal preparation in any picnic area.

I was thinking I'd take all day Thursday off, and then we could see stuff in the Black Hills and Devil's Tower on the way out there, and stay in Gillette. Our cabin rental doesn't start until Friday night, so we would still need someplace to stay that first night. If we want to we could drive straight back, but if we do drive for two days, I think we should get a ways past the Black Hills.

I think we should bring a cooler, and get the food to put in it out there (perishables anyways). I agree that we wouldn't need all the room in a huge vehicle. So what do we suggest to take for a vehicle?

Angie from URL @ 08:35 p.m.

Erin and I were talking last night. We were thinking that we wouldn't really need a bigger vehicle because we won't have the tents and all of that stuff to bring with us. All we need is our clothes and cooler. Unless Angie you know otherwise Like what they provide us in our cabin, ie. bedding tolit supplies etc. And if we do need food we could just get it while we were out there. What do we all think? Also Angie we kinda need to know what your planning on doing if your working for 1/2 day or not. And if you are not then we thought we could just drive all the way out there and save on a hotel room.

Megan from URL @ 11:18 a.m.

Where were all you guys last night I tried calling you all but no one around. FYI it was about 10pm. Sorry Kristin I don't know your phone numbers. Angie and Erin I tried at home numbers for you thinking you were there. Erin I tried you Marshal Number as well no luck for me. But I am home and we could do something except I leave Mondday

Megan from URL @ 10:37 p.m.

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Just want to clarify things. I knew thats what you ment. I agree I don't want to be doing the driving during that week either.

Megan from URL @ 02:21 p.m.

I just want to avoid the busy-ness and the inability to find a hotel room within hundreds of miles surrounding the Black Hills. My family took a trip out there (on the way to Colorado) one year, and it was bad. And it is Aug. 4-10 this year, so we don't have to worry about it.

Angie from URL @ 10:47 p.m.

STURGIS Is not crap its FUN!!!... My parentals go there and I beleive it is the first weekend of Aug. and go read bitchin

Megan from URL @ 03:48 p.m.

Ok, I was just thinking of something. When the hell is the Sturgis crap? I don't want to be going through the Black Hills, or try to find a hotel when that's going on.

Ok, I found out, It's August 4th - 10th.

Angie from URL @ 09:09 a.m.

Why am I the only person posting anything? Isn't that a bit odd. Come on guys. I'm bored. Entertain me.

No one's online to bug, either. hrmf.

erin from URL @ 09:28 p.m.

I found a very cool site. You know how most stores just carry "Granny Clothes" for the over size 12 set? Well, here's a store that caters to plus-sized mamas like, well, me. They have a lot of cute stuff. Anyway...here's the link: Torrid.com

/ erin from URL @ 08:05 p.m.

Did you all know that Trading Spaces is coming to Minnesota this summer? It's about time! :)

Erin from URL @ 05:33 p.m.

Hi everyone! The main page was getting a little long (too much to scroll through) so I archived it. You know that we have been posting here since 2001?!?! I know. Spooky.

I don't really have anything to say, but I will babble anyway. That's what this space is for, right? Yeah. I'm home from work early today. There is plenty to do, but the server isn't cooperating. Dammit, anyway. That's okay. I have laundry to do...ugh. I hate doing laundry. bah.

Megan, are you planning to use the m-blog site or the talknjot site for your blog? I'm just curious. Lemme know and update, too. Anxious to see how your summer moving time has been. Any interesting neighbors? hmm..

/ erin from URL @ 02:15 p.m.