Things I learned on my trip up to Washington:

-When you're in the car with your family, no one cares what you look like.
-Always get the stick out of the Fun Dip before you open the powder.
-Snow is a fickle entity.
-5 hours of driving is usually the point when people get loopy.
-People eat weird-smelling things.
-My brother obsessed with the temperature, asking inane questions, and the difference between a freeway and a highway.
-There is no difference between a freeway and a highway that anyone cares about.
-My brother will tell you about them anyway.
-Glowsticks are an excellent idea in the car.
-Music and amazing texting conversations will save your life.
-Even with snow on the ground outside and frost making your windows all foggy, it can still get absolutely sweltering in your car.
-Other places have trees that actually lose their leaves.
-Snow is actually soft and powdery sometimes!
-There is an endlessly amusing town called Weed, California that is a source of endless amusing jokes that my mother does not find amusing.
-Oregon's State Lotto Powerball: $106 million.
-Gas station attendants fill up the tank for you in Oregon. Apparently it's a job that requires highly trained professionals.
-No matter how fucking cool it would be, normal people just can't Skype on the road.
-I'm not sure if I just never noticed it before or if people just don't do it in the desert, but every fast food place that we stopped at had a full-on Christmas tree in the corner.
-Shoe on head pictures are endlessly hilarious.
-"Electric boobs" does not rhyme with "mohair suits".
-Sunnyside smells like shit. Literally.
-Andrue is consistently amazing.