The Road trip to The Colombian Basin Vantage, Eastern Washington.

So during the weekend, on Saturday, all the geology students had to go on this road trip

from 8am-6pm to Eastern Washington . 

It was you know, a short two hours journey by van to get there. 

The van is a bad way to go if you have the tendency to get

car sick tho!

Well, we visited the sites that we have been studying and reading about in class.

Those sites visited were : The Scablands, The Colombian Basin, Puget Wind Farm 

and the Petrified Forest.

The petrified forest being an outdoorsy research center displaying various specimens of

wood-rock that have been turned into rocks due to the infiltration of magma - which occurred

millions of years ago.  

We were blessed to have such an amazingly beautiful weather that day, for photos and

for research as well as sketching. 

Twas a charmingly pleasant day, 

getting away from the city life and from technology [except the camera].

Well, I had fun taking photos till the memory card ran out of space,

and just relaxing - appreciating all the overwhelming beauty the place had to offer :)

God's a genius really.

The Colombia River

as for this whole area, i was first formed due to a massive megaflood  which swept
away huge parts of the area, causing all these geological structures and landscape.
The flood was so massive, that in just a few hours, a flat land became all of this! [pictured below]
the pictures could not tell the depth of the area. hence, it doesnt do it justice.

all of these were once flat lands! 

The wind farm. 

Dont you just love the color of the sky and how the clouds are positioned?

my edited photo : the backseat view.

And as for sunday, 

as excited as I am, I woke up way earlier than needed on the day itself because

I was overly excited - to go to an outlet store in Everette called Tulalip!

Woke up at 2.30am, 4am and finally 7am. Got ready, took a bus

to Udub and met with Syadishy and the other msians and we were off 

to SHOP! I usually prefer cheaper shopping cuz you get more for less! 

SO, my goal was to find sports stuff for tennis. it's all about the running shoes and

sports jacket. [which im in love with at the moment : my first tennis jacket! ]

Ps. no one wears a tennis jacket in Malaysia. so when I watch tourneys

on tv, Im like ' i want one of those someday!' :)

 And as for the evening, I rushed to Paramount Theater for a 

Blue man group concert. it was very different and it was definitely hilarious 

to watch them perform. Only heard of them because of Fine Arts class.

We had reasonably good seats. 

Words to sum up the entire night - amusing, funny, comedy, 

flying orbs with lights in them, toilet paper rolls tossed in the air,

PVC pipe instruments, twiggies, colourful, vibrant, interactive and

simply just fun to watch :)

Yups, it was a productive weekend.

I'm a happy person now. :)