New Beginnings

I feel like things keep changing drastically in life thus causing me to write gi-normously long blog posts. Cause I can guarantee now that this post will be huge. Therefore, oh ye weak of reading endurance, be warned. :P

First thing first: holy changes of getting to Utah. The move went well, we got all of our stuff in the trailer and successfully cross-countried it. Some stuff ended up with dings and scratches due to the lack of furniture pads that the Uhaul people suffered from but all in all we made it. The trip seemed like it took for-ever! Day 1 was DC to Jackson, TN. This ride took us about 14 hours (we quickly found out that the trailer was going to definitely hurt our speed and gas mileage).

                                                                                    *You can tell we truely are in the south...  

Jackson scared us just a bit.. maybe it was just the area we were in but the Waffle House that we graced was somewhat questionable in their food handling standards and then the area around the hotel caused us to pray that our stuff would remain in our car. Literally. We prayed that. It might be sacrilegious or something but hey, it worked so I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. 

Next we ventured to Amarillo, TX which took forever and 12 years. Actually it took 16 hours but that's almost the same thing. Amarillo wasn't bad. We were so exhausted when we got there that it could have been Slumsville and we wouldn't have cared. 

                                 Arkansas took a while to get through             But not as long as Oklahoma

                                  At least one thing about Oklahoma         And I promise this says "Welcome to Texas"
                                                                  was it's pretty                                      even though you can't see it

Then we ventured through New Mexico and stopped in Monticello, UT. First of all, there's a temple in Monticello, UT? I mean, seriously?? That's great but holy tiny-place. You learn new things every day I guess. We wanted to stop somewhere since the last day, if we went from Amarillo straight through to Orem, was suppose to take 15 hours according to Google which would translate to 18 hours trailer-driving time. 

                                                 Oh Mountains how I missed you.....

                                 I thought the reflection was cool :)                    

                                                                                 
                                                                 Obviously I liked this sunset :)

Welcome to Utah                                 The same sunset                   

I’ll post pictures of how we’ve decorated the place later. For now, here’s the gorgeous view of the sunset from the top of the staircase and from one of the extra bedrooms (through the window screen.. it looked something like a Monet and I thought it was cool). Enoy!!

Since this is such a huge post with pictures and there’s still more to write, I’m going to make this end of post #1 and fill in more tomorrow. Enjoy!

E