The Chronicles of John Trammell

For those who don't know, my cousin on my mom's side of the family, Amanda Clark, is leaving for basic training in a few days (AKA Boot Camp).  A few months ago, she announced that she has enlisted in the National Guard, and that she will be training to be a drone plane pilot.  She first heads to Boot Camp at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri.  Once she has graduated from Boot Camp, she heads right off to Ft. Huachuca in a small town of Sierra Vista, Arizona,  which is 20 miles from the Mexican Boarder.  She will be their for schooling till September, where hopefully she will be stationed in Portland, Oregon, which is where she has been living.  For the past month and a week, she has been living down here at the farm, and we have done alot of cool things, from going to Sea World to the San Diego Wild Animal Park.  Things have been great.  The hardest thing will be not having her at our camping trip at Yosemite this year. I will be going with Amanda, ...

I went with my cuz, Amanda, to the Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Redwings Ice Hockey Game at the Honda Center in Anaheim. With the game starting at 7:00 pm, we decided to leave from the farm in Yucaipa at 4:00. We got into Anaheim at 5:30 pm, took awhile due to lovely California Traffic, and we we wanted to look for dinner. Right across the river from the center is a movie theater with restaurants, We found a mexican restaurant called Acapulco to have dinner. When we first arrived at Acapulco Mexican Food, we where able to get seated right away, which was great because we needed to get to the game. She took an order for drinks, my cuz had a beer and I ordered a Raspberry Mojito. We where just chilling, and we where out on the patio, so it was nice. While we where waiting for the drinks, chips and salsa came, and it was awesome. While eating the chips and salsa, we started to notice that there where a lot of people there that are going to the game. About ten minutes passed, and we finally...