Ruthton Minnesota & Our Journey Here

Well here I am in Ruthton, Minnesota once again. It's a very small town. Less than 300 people live here. Right now, I am one of them. Every day is a little bit different, yet somewhat the same. Slow. Relaxing. Almost perfect. In my mind, adventurous! I don't think hardly anything has gone wrong since I've been here. I feel like I could almost be anything right now. Anyone I want to be, I can take the time to become because there just isn't much else to do.
Every time I see something here it opens up my mind to a whole new world, brings back memories of coming here to my grandparents house when I was a little kid. Exploring the different rooms of the basement with a flashlight and a BB gun just to be safe in case I ran into anyone down there. The basement was my dungeon, a place where I could use my imagination. This whole town was. All the old houses out in the middle of nowhere. Who knows how many of them could be haunted or have some crazy treasure hidden beneath them? This is the perfect place for a kid to grow up. So many things to do, places to go, things to see, mysteries to be solved. I can almost feel like that little 6 year old boy who lived here so long ago. Running through the town, doing and imagining the craziest things. I just love it here.



We left Austin around 2:00pm last Tuesday. Almost a week ago now. We were planning to leave earlier but got held up because we had to take stuff to the storage unit in Leander and had to wait for it to stop raining first. It just happened to pour rain that day!


Well, we hit the road and I got out my book and started reading. I finished reading Black by the time we got to Minnesota. SUCH an amazing book! Ted Dekker is a genius! My all time favorite writer and the guy who inspired me to write, Ted Dekker is absolutely amazing. I can not wait to read the next three books in the Circle Series.
I rode most of the way reading my book with Sasha resting her head on my lap. (Sasha is my dog, just to let you know.) :D Haha


We were going to drive all night but my mom got tired and didn't want to have to sleep in the car, so we stopped at a small motel in Perry, Oklahoma that let dogs stay for an extra $5.00. Wasn't the greatest place in the world but who cared? We were just tired and wanted a bed to sleep in. :)



The next morning, we got up, my mom took Sasha outside to walk around a little bit and there was a HUGE, BEAUTIFUL rainbow right outside the hotel door. It was almost a double rainbow with another rainbow inside of it! It was amazing! :) It almost reminded me of the rainbows we would see every day when we lived in Hawaii, but not as vivid and colorful. Either way, it was a rainbow and it was beautiful. :) The five of us, Mom, Dad, Sara, Sasha, and me of course, got dressed, got back in the crammed car, and hit the road. Later that night, we were in Ruthton Minnesota. :)