We've been traveling for three days now. It's been pretty exhausting. We left late on Monday and then had horrible rainy weather for much of the ride. We had to stop in Laramie because the rain was too awful to continue on to Cheyenne. The baby is doing pretty well. She sleeps in the car and at night, which is excellent. Sometimes she wants to nurse every two hours, which is annoying because with an hour or nursing and diaper changing, that leaves only an hour to drive. But luckily, she usually goes three or four hours.
Yesterday was awesome. We couldn't find the Super 8 we were planning on staying at, so Adam went into a Fairfield Inn to look in their phone book. He walked back out with a room for us at an even better price than the Super 8. They gave us the employee discount rather than sending us to another motel! Tonight we are at a Comfort Inn, which is still cheap but nicer than a Super 8.
We were planning on going to Nauvoo today. We would have spent the evening and morning there and then gone on from there. It would have only added four hours to the total trip. However, it would have added to the total cost and delayed our arrival by a day. Our movers are arriving on Saturday sometime, and we need to arrive before them and have money to pay them and our first month's rent. That's a whole issue in itself, since all of our money seems to be inaccessible right now. One of our accounts doesn't have enough money but doesn't have any branches near us, and for our other account we don't have a checkbook yet. Plus several paychecks are in the mail somewhere being forwarded. It's definitely stressful. We've figured out a solution, but it will be much better to be there on Friday rather than Saturday.
It's sad leaving Utah, but we're both ready for a new start. We're excited for Adam's new job, our huge new apartment, our new ward, living near Adam's family, and basically everything except leaving my family. :( Natasha is coming to visit for a week in June though, so that's cool. Katrina really likes her, and vice versa of course, so that will be a fun week.
Well, Adam is feeling sick and Katrina is squirmy and probably hungry. Maybe next time we post we'll be in Pennsylvania!
Yesterday was awesome. We couldn't find the Super 8 we were planning on staying at, so Adam went into a Fairfield Inn to look in their phone book. He walked back out with a room for us at an even better price than the Super 8. They gave us the employee discount rather than sending us to another motel! Tonight we are at a Comfort Inn, which is still cheap but nicer than a Super 8.
We were planning on going to Nauvoo today. We would have spent the evening and morning there and then gone on from there. It would have only added four hours to the total trip. However, it would have added to the total cost and delayed our arrival by a day. Our movers are arriving on Saturday sometime, and we need to arrive before them and have money to pay them and our first month's rent. That's a whole issue in itself, since all of our money seems to be inaccessible right now. One of our accounts doesn't have enough money but doesn't have any branches near us, and for our other account we don't have a checkbook yet. Plus several paychecks are in the mail somewhere being forwarded. It's definitely stressful. We've figured out a solution, but it will be much better to be there on Friday rather than Saturday.
It's sad leaving Utah, but we're both ready for a new start. We're excited for Adam's new job, our huge new apartment, our new ward, living near Adam's family, and basically everything except leaving my family. :( Natasha is coming to visit for a week in June though, so that's cool. Katrina really likes her, and vice versa of course, so that will be a fun week.
Well, Adam is feeling sick and Katrina is squirmy and probably hungry. Maybe next time we post we'll be in Pennsylvania!
I took this on my phone somewhere in Iowa or Illinois. It turned out kind of cool!
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