Hello! We made it! Let me tell you how..
So- we had a great load-in of the 26' yellow Penske truck on Wed. It only took us a few hours to load thanks to all the help we had. THANKS HELPERS! We left Madison at about 1pm (central, we are eastern now..) with dad in the truck leading tom and I in our sentra, and the martins in the thunderbird. Our backseat was filled with the tv, while the martins had our cat Kevin and their dog Kirby with them.
Day 1 on the road to New Haven:
We got to Chicago, and got a little lost on its South side...then we kinda lost each other for a while.. right as we are about to get back on the highway we finally got ahold of dad and told him we lost Steph and Beau and that we need to pull over. THEN, right s we pull into an abandoned lot, Tom gets a call from Steph that the front right tire is flat on the thunderbird, and Beau is putting on the spare. She says it should only take 10 minutes to change. Which I was amazed at how fast you can change a tire.. so they finally meet us in the lot and we see the spare is flat too! LUCKILY! we have two Snow tires for the thunderbird in the truck! (thanks Steve and Debbie) Whew! Close call, huh? Because of the delay, we arrived in Cleavland, OH later than we'd hoped.... around 2amish? I can't remember. (I'd ask Tom, but he is sleeping in for the first time since before Cousins' Camp last weekend. Man! it's been a tiring week of fullness! its 12:20 and he's snoozing away..:P )
Day 2-
Todd and Laurel Berger were kind enough to let us crash at their beautiful house even though they were on vacation. We all slept really well. Thanks Bergers! Woke up around 8:30ish to go to Doc and Anne's (pronounced aaaahhn. she is beautiful and french) for a lovely brunch of pancakes Doc had made with very tiny grains, and fruit and bacon and eggs mm the whole thing! it was so homey and nice to have time with them sandwiched between two long car rides. They have a beautiful baby boy who is 3months old. When he smiles his whole face lights up and you can see his gums.. man that boy has a great smile! getting to hold him was baby comfort therapy for me. Thanks Harills!
On the road again.. Pennsylvania is a wide state. It's green and plush with trees, and the deep river canyons that are a little scary to look down when you are riding in the truck. You could definitely tell the difference of people when you hit Jersey.. road warriors in PA are much different than NJ. It's a lot like going from Amish country to attitude city. :) ha! in NJ it is against the law to pump your own gas.. who knows why- but they have a guy, rain or shine, come pump it for you and you are to tip him.. Ha! quirky things like that are so funny to me. Ordering TBell was funny too.. they take their time and make you feel like you're inconveniencing them with your side order of guac. ha! i thought that was only in the movies!! wow.
Finally in Connecticut!! But it is Raining. On the Highway it felt like a continuous ocean wave! We were sliding and fighting to see in the last few moments of getting to wherever we were going.
Because of the rain and the lack of transition communiction, i was trying to hold it together and losing. New place, no goodbye to dad who was staying at a different house than us, left me weepy. It couldn't have panned out like i had pictured it. I needed to adjust. But at least Tom understood my tears. And the WONDERFULL woman that we are living with is sooo welcoming and calming and understanding and great!!!!! She made us feel like all of our stuff in transition is not worrysome to her. She is amazing! I am so blessed by her kindness. Thank you God for her!!
continuting soon...
love you all!
joelle gosda-
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