First off let me issue a warning. This is a LONG blog! Read at your own peril.
Well we FINALLY have Internet here at our house! It has been a long time coming and I am ready to post some cross country move pics!
Ok so we started out living in Boca Raton Florida and over the course of 4 days Cory, Charlotte, and I piled into our OVERLOADED van towing our EXTREMELY OVERLOADED trailer and on a prayer we headed out across to our new home in Oakley California. We had lots of hopes and exciting ideas about starting over in Cali! (now don't hate, my picture taking skills SUCK! If you want good pics sorry)
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So we decided to try and save money by sleeping in the car and taking shifts. We thought being young and 21 with no kids we could do it right?? WRONG!!!! The MOST WRONG we ever were! If these pictures are any indication we were DEAD exhausted and completely out of our minds. Little did we know that kids were NO match for a 9 month old kitten. She was a terror! BIG MISTAKE.
So we had many other ADVENTURES on our 10 state trip.
Our first adventure was
A BLOWN TIRE ON OUR TRAILER!
So stuck on the side of the road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 110 degree weather after being awake for 17 hours straight we were COMPLETELY exhausted and burnt out. the roads in Louisiana are slanted but our tire was too big and it was not slanted enough. In the third pic you can see a piece of our bed we had to use to prop the jack up to make it higher for our tire.
So it took us 2 hours in the hot sun to change our tire, but WE DID IT!!!
Dirty, TIRED, and hot we loaded back into the car and were on our way to find a trailer tire store to buy another tire. THANKFULLY WE DID.
3 hours later just outside of Natchitoches, Louisiana we blew the BRAND NEW trailer tire.
It was so upsetting. My parents were helping us out by driving our car behind us. They had stopped in Alabama to sleep the night before, so we waited for them to catch up to us and help us with the tire. Turns out it was a broken AXLE! Turns out in Natchitoches, Louisiana it is not as easy to find a trailer parts store. We finally found one and got a new trailer axle, and the gal who helped us, her father is the town mechanic and he helped put the axle together and we were on the road again after loosing about a day to the silly tires!
Second delay was the GPS. I could probably make up a blog devoted only to the GPS! It was such a pain in our side. So in Texas, Dallas actually stuck in Monday night traffic our GPS decided to take us a different route from my parents. So as they were headed to Amarillo VIA their 1,000.00 GPS unit we were headed to Amarillo VIA our 300.00 GPS unit. Little did we know it was taking us straight into Oklahoma City Ok.
Thankfully we got on a little old country road and traveled through Oklahoma back down into Texas and made it to Amarillo Home of the 72 oz. Steak at about 3am. I cant say this word enough, but EXHAUSTED and totally BEAT we did not stop in Amarillo we kept on driving.
We wanted to be in Las Vegas by Wednesday to surprise his mom and dad. We were ended up making such good time on the last leg of our trip we had a little time for some sight seeing
It was really nice to actually slow down and relax for a little bit. SO are you still with us. This is a LONG blog for a LONG trip.
We made it FINALLY to NEVADA!!!!!
That sign was such sweet relief!
We were so excited about being in Nevada that we slacked on our Highway Patrol lookout diligence. We had made it ALL the way across the USA and less than 30 miles from Las Vegas we got pulled over We were given not only 1 but 3 tickets. 1 for speeding, 1 for having a trailer unlicensed, and 1 for our Florida Insurance not having an expiration date! I am sorry but I really cant stand police who dont give breaks. Yes we were speeding, YES we didnt have a plate, but seriously we were in NEVADA and we were clearly from FLORIDA come on now! We were EXHAUSTED, TIRED, Sun Burnt, Stinky, SWOLLEN like balloons, and so ready to be in a hotel in VEGAS! Really not nice of him.
ANYWAY we made it to Vegas a day early, slept in a bed for the first time in 2 days and took a SO much needed shower. Really fab night sleep.
Early the next morning we surprised Sherene and Scott ( Cory's Mom and Dad). Boy was that a reveal. It was so sweet all parties crying it was sweet.
By the way we all met Pete Rose a home run king! It was cool!
Here are some exciting Pics from Vegas
Trojan Horse @ FAO Mirage Fire Mirage Volcano
So the reason Cory's parents and family were in Las Vegas was for the Star Trek Convention. So the following Pictures are blurry because we were so far away but they are of Zachary Quinto ( New Spock in movie and Sylar on Heroes) William Shatner, and Leonard Nemoy both from the original Star Trek.
Zach Q Shatner and Nemoy Zach Q
IT was so fun. They are really sweet humble and NORMAL people. Considering I am the farthest thing from a Treker, I managed to not embarrass my family the Trekers at the Star Wars....... oops Star Trek convention ;-)
After 7 LONG days we finally made it to Oakley California. It was a fun trip and one that we learned MANY things on. We learned that we will be getting a hotel, moving company, SLEEP and a cat watcher if we EVER have to do this again!
Thanks for being patient with this blog, More to come on the house and our new life here in California!
Now the couch will be a different color thinking pure white or Brown.
