Friday- Left Provo, accompanied by The All American Rejects “Gives You Hell.” Camper slept all day, was up during the evening, slept all night in a beautiful hotel (in bed with Mommy and Daddy) with a morning breakfast buffet consisting of many wonderful sausages and yummy eggs. And good juice. And lots of skiers. Sleeping place: Veil, CO. Said goodbye to the beautiful western mountains.
Saturday- Left CO, drove over scariest mountain summit of life so far. Super serious weather demanding super skilled winter driving and use of the Subaru’s Sport Shifting. All drivers and passengers handled it like champs. Long day of driving, much catching up with my Auntie. Camper slept all morning, was awake all evening, and then slept all night in a so-so hotel in bed with Mommy. No king beds available, so we split up. Breakfast was disappointing. Sleeping place: Salina, KS.
Sunday- Coldest day of the whole trip. Temperatures so low it hurt to pump gas, lots of wind through KS. I recall a nice lunch in a Subway…unless that was Monday. Still no snow! More bonding with my Auntie (taking turns driving while John and Jon were in the moving truck), Camper slept all morning, was awake in the evening, and slept all night in a rather interesting hotel that seemed pretty fancy, was super-affordable…and turned out to be a windy death trap with door 4 frozen shut. More on THAT later. Sleeping place: Terra Haute, IN.
Monday- Decided to GO FOR IT. Had a really good meal at a Cracker Barrel and then just DROVE. No hotel that night! More quality time with my Auntie ending in hilarity as everyone in both cars quickly got uber tired. Went through good old Scranton, although it was too late to stop and visit. Arrived home around 5am after missing our exit and going through Connecticut by accident. Everyone did the bare minimum upacking the cars to allow ourselves to fall into bed and sleep for a couple of hours. Sleeping place: HOME.
Tuesday- Slept, ran errands, sat around like zombies.
Wednesday- Unloaded truck and returned it. Worked on unpacking.
Today- CHRISTMAS! Wonderful day in which Camper got more presents than anyone else, and we all loved it. Worked on unpacking a bit more, but mostly just rested and visited. Oh yeah. And napped. Napping was good.
So those were the bare bones of our trip. I’m sure I’ll update more on the way it was easiest to travel with Camper…keeping a 7 to 7 schedule and hitting a hotel before his bedtime, or the things Auntie and I got to talk about and how amazing it was to get time away from the world with her and just spend time together, or about how hysterical things got in Wilkes Barre with my brother saying he was going to call the cops on my Aunt who was loitering outside a gas station or how fun it was to talk over walkie talkies the whole trip….but I’m tired. John is tired. There is still so much to do, we’re just glad to be here and settling into our newest phase of life. I’ve been forgetting to check my cell phone and taking naps with Bubby whenever he falls asleep and eating lots of good food. Tomorrow it’ll be back to real life, cleaning and organzing and more job applications for both me and John, I’m sure. But for now we’re just chillin’, enjoying the holidy.
Merry Christmas everyone, hope it was a good one!
Auntie, if you remember anything I need to write about, just leave it in the comments, I’ll work on the long post/recap later. With pictures!
