This was hardly my first move across state lines, but it was for my dear Mr N. He typically does quite well on road trips so I was anxious to see how the move would effect him. We planned on leaving Thursday evening when Daddy was done working for the day, all went well that rainy miserable Thursday morning and afternoon. E and I went to have coffee with some dear friends before our departure, we packed the last little bit of stuff, we dropped some stuff off for recycling, loaded the family up into the vehicles and pulled out on our long awaited, much anticipated journey.
We made it about a half mile down the road before it was quite obvious the trailer we had purchased was not up for the job and the Jeep was not going to be able to tow the very overweight Trailer. We navigated a u-turn and headed home. We all hopped into the Jetta and ran to Sonora to rent a uhaul, I said a prayer made a few phone calls, posted on Facebook and hoped help would come. The kids and I returned home while Daddy took care of the paperwork at uhaul, I started unpacking the trailer so that we could be a few steps ahead when Daddy arrived with the uhaul. Daddy arrived with the uhaul and trailer to tow the jeep and a few minutes later our friend Tracy showed up to help watch the kids, she had her grandson with her so double bonus for the kiddos. Twenty minutes later our amazing friends Nathan, Ruthie, Sam, Hannah, Jordie, and Heidi showed up and quickly got the uhaul loaded. We are so incredibly thankful we have such great friends, which made saying goodbye so much harder.
We set out again for our lengthy road trip and made it about an hour outside of town before stopping for the night. This old gal was bushed. We started out bright and early Friday morning and made it from Angel's Camp, CA to Evanston, WY. Our goal to hit Wyoming was realized and made E very happy. She was very anxious to get to Wyoming. Somewhere in either Utah or Nevada Mr N did his very first roadside pee break, I couldn't be more proud of my little man. I wondered what he would think and how he would adjust to an impromptu pee break with no potty, but he nailed it! I'm now certain that our summer camping adventures will be no issue.
Saturday morning we began the last leg of our journey, enjoying our very first sunrise in Wyoming. We arrived in Sheridan at my brother's house at about 11:30am Saturday morning and the kids were all excited to see their cousins. The adults desperately tried to find us a new home, after calling several places for rent we nailed down a showing for Sunday afternoon. It was not ideal or even doable so Daddy and I decided to drive down to Buffalo to check it out and then drive back up the old highway to Sheridan and look for places to rent that might not be advertised. As we drove the Buffalo I convinced Daddy to stop at the house I've been eyeballing for weeks so that I could peek in the windows. I got busted....
A realtor was riding by on her bicycle and asked if we were looking for a place and we explained that we really wanted a place to rent month to month so that we can buy a house without dealing with breaking a 1 year lease. Coincidentally she and her husband were riding their bikes to their rental property to take pictures so they could list it as it just emptied out the previous Friday. They allowed us to look at it and we snapped it up. Monday morning we signed the paperwork and moved in, got a storage unit and put the rest of our stuff there.
It's been quite the journey. Mr N has done great with all of the changes, he loves playing with his cousins and warmed right up to my brother and sister in law. He was a little on edge the first couple of days at my brother's house but once we started unpacking stuff at our new house he really calmed down and has been doing great.
Yesterday we got Internet, phone, and TV hooked up. This is the first time we've had cable since we lived in Modesto almost 2 years ago, and we never really watched it there. Yesterday when the TV was first on E was so excited and kept saying "we have hotel movies".
