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Well, I'm back in Boulder. i had such a fun trip! It was pretty intense meeting people for only two weeks and then leaving. Things I missed the most while I was away was my own bed (yessss - no more air mattress!) and my own transportation (bike and car). It was such a pain having to either always wait for a bus or walk all over town!

Sunday was kind-of surreal. When I woke up everyone who was there the night before had left the Academy! Only a handful of people were left, but most of them left on Sunday too. Kate was also leaving on Monday - we walked down to A&W for lunch, and I used my free root beer coupon :). I slept all afternoon!! I was really exhauseted from the festival I guess. I woke up for dinner - I walked to a mexican restaurant with Kate, Brandon and Michiko. The food was pretty good, but the service was so slow! I spent the night packing.

On Monday I got up around 5:30 to get a ride to the bus stop. It was the chairman of the music festival who gave me a ride! I had fortunately remembered to stop at an ATM the day before to take out enough cash for my bus fare. Michiko also was taking the bus. I slept through most of the ride, so wasn't keeping my eyes peeled for whales like last time. Blast! So, no whale sightings for this trip. Maybe I'll have to come back next summer to continue the watch. The bus was late for the second ferry, and we had to wait two hours for the next one! Some people on the bus missed their flights. I got to the airport in timeto get through customs. They made me open my bow case and unscrew the bow at security - I never had to do that before! I had a layover at San Fransisco. Everything went pretty smoothly, except that they checked my bass onto the next flight after mine for some reason. They gave me a meal voucher, so I went and grabbed some Burger King with Jeremiah while we waited for the bass ot get in. Jeremiah was really great to come pick me up from the airport, my flight didn't get in until 11pm and then we had to wait for the bass. It was such a long travel day - I was really exhausted!