Road Trip Part 2 or "Why Is There So Much Kansas?"

Day 2, also known as the day we crossed Kansas, began bright and early again at 4:00am (central time in case you were wondering). Here is a picture of Vyonne and I looking oh so lovely as we were about to head out the door. Vyonne is from Kansas and so are our two good friends Nick and Amelia so we dressed appropriately for our trip across the Sunflower (not Sunshine) State and sent them this picture to commemorate the momentous occasion.

The first leg of the trip took us through a national forest, American Indian reservations, and finally Oklahoma in some crazy bad weather. And by crazy I mean we were listening to the radio for tornado warnings and it was pitch black outside. But we made it to Kansas in one piece. And Amanda saw a fox that she was really excited about and Vyonne and I ignored her because sleep = more important than a fox apparently.

Kansas was exciting, for the first few hundred miles. How pretty is that picture?! But it's pretty much flat. And long. This was the most exciting scenery that we encountered in our 8 hour or so Kansas Adventure. Shout out for renewable energy! (Yes, I was a science teacher and I'm cool like that.)

But don't worry, we found many a way to entertain ourselves. Like creative opening of coke bottles. Sometimes you just have to have caffeine and sugar and a pail of fingernail clippers will do in a pinch.

Isn't Juneau such a good sport? Well the nugget, as she is affectionately called, was a good sport all day and Amanda kept us entertained by dressing Juneau up and posing her as a person.

(Side note: she is wearing that shirt because she had a cut, not because I regularly dress up my dog. Although, she does look pretty darn cute!)

Such a good dog.

And then we finally arrived in COLORADO!

Where we stopped and took pictures because a.) we're dorks like that and b.) we were that excited to be out of Kansas (sorry Nick and Amelia!)

Vyonne and I attempted a jumping picture to illustrate our excitement...

FAIL.

However, we quickly realized that eastern Colorado looks a lot like western Kansas. So we continued to entertain ourselves...

We FINALLY arrived at our new house around 5:00 Mountain Time Sunday night.

And the unpacking commenced, more to come on that later...

Road Trip Part 1

Hello from Colorado!

We finally got everything packed and made our two day road trip across the country, it has been a whirlwind week but in the best way possible! There is so much to share but since I have a very limited attention span I won't put everything that has happened in the last week into one gigantic post. So lets start with the road trip adventure....

Packing was nothing short of a MASSIVE CHALLENGE, but with the help of friends and family we got everything into our tiny Uhaul.

There is absolutely no space in that trailer. It was seriously like a puzzle in there!

Ion and our friends Thomas and April drove Thomas' Pathfinder with the Uhaul and my best friend Vyonne, my sister Amanda, Juneau and I followed behind in my car for the 1700 mile journey. Everyone spent Friday night, our last night in South Carolina, at Ion's parents house where we hung out and swam in the pool with family and friends and then went to bed early so we could leave at 4:00am. Everyone was up by 3:30 Saturday morning and we were in the cars at 4:07. (With lots of Sugar Free Redbull and 5 hour Energy in hand!)

We went south through Georgia, (but don't worry, Amanda snapped into a Slim Jim as soon as we hit I-20)

Alabama,

Mississippi,

Tennessee,

and FINALLY to Arkansas where we stayed with our friend Alex for the night.

We kept ourselves awake with extreme amounts of caffeine, loud singing, and Tina Fey's Bossypants. Go. Read. It. Now. It was that awesome. Plus all of the ladies in my car, Juneau included, have a slight obsession with Tina Fey and Liz Lemon.

Needless to say after 16 hours in the car on day 1, we were all more than excited when Alex took us to a local Fayetteville Brewery for dinner.

I think Juneau enjoyed the trip the most, you couldn't ask for a better road trip companion. (It was probably because Amanda kept sneaking her beef jerkey...)

A Little Help Packing

5 x 8

So, the plan for the move is our amazing friend Thomas driving his Pathfinder with a 5 x 8 Uhaul trailer and me driving my car. All, of course, with the sweet additions of friends and sisters along for the ride!

To recap, we have a Pathfinder trunk, a 5 x 8 trailer, and the trunk of a Honda Accord and we need to fit all of this...

Mind you this does not include my belongings that I moved home to my parents house back in March when I began my couch surfing adventures...

Combining two peoples things is difficult enough when you aren't having to move everything 1,700 miles. We have already gotten rid of most of the furniture and I'm pretty excited about hunting for some fabulous craigslist finds when we get there. Where did all of this stuff come from?! Consolidating and downsizing are the themes of this weekend. Or at least this afternoon

before we get together with friends and family for a pool party tonight!