To Hell and Back Again: An Elf's Journey

Vanildor's Trip to Idaho to pick up parent's puppy

Day Two:
Got up at butt crack of dawn again. Took shower as I smelled like cig smoke from the room, stupid smoke. Left hotel and broke our fast. Note to self, human fast food v. gross, rotten deer on side of road would have tasted better. I don't think I was eating real eggs, stupid fake chickens.
Drove 8 hours through the most boring place on planet, miles and miles of flat, yellow grassland. Stupid grass is supposed to be green.

Stopped at site of war between two groups of humans, one being white and one being Indians. Sign said that Indians kicked ass. Was v. pleased as suspect that Indians a lost race of elves of some type of other kin. Place was called White Bird Canyon. 

Stopped at place to eat and saw beautiful white oak tree, gave me hope trip would not be totally insane. Also passed by v. beautiful river. 
Got to motel we had arranged, The Colonial Motel in Weiser Idaho, place was gross, *shakes head at humans* dead stinging insects in windows, dirt on everything, was some sort of green lifeform in bathtub, growled at me when I went to take shower, decided that having a little road dirt on me wasn't so bad after all.
Went to turn down the bed and found rat droppings in sheets, stupid rats, I didn't think we had to share room with rats.
Went to store, got bleach, went into bathroom and did battle with green life form. I won! Go me! Got to take shower after all.
Got out of shower and room was empty of all our things, found mother tossing our stuff into mobile driving unit and yelling and cursing at the motel owner. Go mom!

I took charge of weapon to be sure mother did not shoot stupid owner. Owner gave us another room, went in and found leftover food on the floor, probably to feed the rats who we had to share room with. Refused room, mother chewed up and spit out motel owner, was very impressed with her verbal skills, did not know she knew words such as that.
Went to another motel, The Indian Head Motel; was nice and clean, only had to share it with one roach, no prob. just gave roach it's own cup to sleep in. Beds were clean, so we slept.

Day Three:
Got up at butt crack of dawn again! Must speak to mother to stop this abuse. Left clean motel grateful for not having had to share room w/ rats. Ate crackers to break fast, was better than fake chicken eggs. Drove for 8 more hours through fields of wheat, v. pretty. Got to see big green trees, also v. pretty, as I don't have such trees back home, must plant some when I get back, was a nice change from flat yellow grass of prev day.
Stopped to see Sawtooth wolf pack, didn't get to see the actual wolves as was midday and they were in hiding, mother bought me a t-shirt. Was v. pretty area, had to be dragged away. Saw some homes called T-Pees, was told Indians used to live in such. Can see why they stopped, not much space to hang things from walls. 
Arrived in Bay View ID. where mother's sister lives, was greeted warmly though suspect that aunt was wary of me for some reason. Don't know why, I am careful with weapons, have yet to shoot at her.
Place is ok, lots of trees, was v. tired though, declined heated up frozen pizza as was unsure of what was in it.
Was shown sleep quarters by aunt, was told to be v. careful of breakable things in room, was also told to be sure and close window blinds when I dressed because window faces street, checked mirror to be sure I was not somehow transformed into a five-year-old. Looked ok, maybe evil wizard cast spell on me to make me look like a five-year-old to everyone, will have to ask mother. Stupid wizards.
Was to tired to worry about it, went to bed early.

Day Four:
Got to sleep in!!!! Go me! Took shower in clean tub, was v. happy. Went to break my fast, found 500 pound aunt in kitchen eating donuts and drinking Slimfast, decided wasn't so hungry after all. Got dressed and was forced to go to birthday party of people I do not know. Must start being more assertive w. family, maybe if I waved weapon around....
Sat in back of car, listened to mother and aunt talk about me like I wasn't there, checked mirror to be sure I was still not a five-year-old. Beginning to suspect that aunt is evil wizard who cast spell on me. Will have to check into that, maybe Gandaulf can help.
Got into large town called Coeur d' Alene and arrived at v. fancy place, was told it had five stars but could not see stars anywhere, think humans are trying to confuse me. Stupid humans.
Sat at table in eating place, bunch of old ladies at table I was introduced too. Was told am very cute, had to get up and go to find a mirror to check again if I was a five-year-old. Nope, still not five-year-old.
Came back to table, old ladies talked about politics and such, was v. bored, had nice view of lake though, saw a large black thing swimming in lake, pointed it out but no one saw it, was laughed at. Must remember that humans are blind to things and to keep mouth shut. Stupid mouth.
Watched humans on lake tie themselves to ropes and a large parachute and get dragged by a boat on the air, looked interesting, must remember to try this though worried a dragon might fly by and pick me off. Stupid dragons.
Was distracted from water by a human (couldn't tell if male of female, suspect was both, so hard to tell) putting plate of something in front of me. Plate was v. pretty, tried to take picture of it, was told it was for eating and not looking at. How was I supposed to know humans like to dress up food? Stupid humans.
Don't see what was to fancy about eating place, was no singing or dancing anywhere, in fact was v. quiet. Not even one dancing Elf! Hoped to see Legolas doing naked rendition of Siml. heard it was v. good. Was v. disappointed.
Meal was good, though was sad had to mess it up to eat it. Got back in car and was taken to v. cool bookstore w/ lots of v. old books. Had to be dragged out of store, managed to get some books though, was v. happy.
Went to another store after that, was v. upsetting. Lots of dead things in store, old animal pelts, lots of wolf and cougar and wolverine and bobcat and coyote and bear and many many other dead animals. Touched them all and said little prayer, hope their spirits rest easy now.
Store had lots of old things that used to belong to Indians, suspect Indians were some sort of Otherkin, mayhap a lost branch of Elf? Many items in store, touched some of them but got angry feelings from items, made my hands tingle. They don't like being there, had to leave store, was getting hard to breathe.
Stupid humans.
Spent rest of day going "shopping" with mother and aunt, had to check mirror many times, still not a five-year-old.
Got back to aunts house and went in room to find that all breakable things had been removed. Was v. relieved as I was starting to get uncontrollable craving to fling things out of window. Ate dinner that aunt made, was v. good, was promised more good food tomorrow. Was also promised trip to see more wolves.

Later saw human mowing lawn across the street from aunt's house. Appeared to be a male dressed as a female, he had v. bad make-up job on face, and was wearing halter-top was v. disturbed, tried to claw eyes out but was stopped by family. Decided to have beer instead and get sloppy drunk. 
Went to bed w. books taken from store, was very happy.

Day Five:
Got to sleep in again today! Looked in mirror, still not five-year-old. Took shower and got dressed. Left soon after with aunt and mother. Drove through v. bad traffic, nerves were shot. Finally got to the Wolf People place, lots of nice things in store, went around back to see wolves that they said they had. Was ok, only one real wolf, which was black; the rest were wolf-dogs though humans tried to convince me they were wolves. Didn't argue w/ them as there was no point to it, humans are blind. Apparently can't tell that the yellow dog in the pen is really a German Shepard. 
Spent rest of afternoon shopping, was v. bored. Though was amused by small dog in book store. 
Got to come back to house and take short nap to settle nerves.
Went out on boat in this huge lake, was v. fun, saw wild mountain goats, took many pictures. Small Damselfly landed next to me and talked for a bit, said that there were getting to be too many humans on the lake, to which I agreed. Later on the docks large family of wild Canadian geese came up to me and let me pet them. I gave them some food. Humans were shocked that geese came up on docks and let me touch them. Humans carried on and on about how strange it was. Don't know what was so strange, animals come up to me all the time. Guess humans have lost their gifts to talk to animals, though suspect they never had such gift. Large father goose hissed at humans but ate from my hand. Geese seemed happy that there were more people on lake, since the humans tend to feed them and don't shoot at them anymore in this area. Was v. happy, mother took many pictures. Came home and settled down, wrote in journal and went to bed, v. tired.

Day Six:
Got up early and drove to pick up puppy, which was reason to whole trip. Was three females to choose from, all were v. nice, picked best one of bunch. Picked up puppy and got wiff of puppy breath, mind turned to so much Jell-O after that and heart melted. Walked around most of day with puppy. Puppy v. smart has already wrapped me around it's paw. Took many pictures.
Evil spell must have worn off as no one treating me like five-year-old today, or maybe mind was too jelloed to notice. Aunt and I getting along better, may come back up for visit, is v. good cook. 

Went out later that day after puppy was taken from me by aunt, and scouted around the area, v. nice place for Elves, would highly recommend living there. 
Starting home tomorrow, still no letters from fellow Elves or shapeshifters, only one who wrote me back was friend Ice, miss them. Hopefully will be back home on Alduya (Tuesday) night and will get to see them again.
Will write in journal again when get back home.
Love to all,
Vani
Side note: puppy's call name is Jenny
Registered name is: Fry Creek Arwen Evenstar

Day Seven, Eight & Nine:

Drove back v. long way, puppy v. good, only minor whimpering, slept most of way. Stayed in two hotels that allowed pets, was ok. No rats. Finally made it home and crashed in sleep.

NOTES:

Do NOT stay at this motel!

COLONIAL MOTEL

251 E MAIN ST, WEISER ID 83672-2536

208-549-0150

Stay at this Motel if you must stay in Weiser:

INDIANHEAD MOTEL

747 HIGHWAY 95, WEISER ID 83672-5303

208-549-0331