Oh how I would like to blog about Christmas and my father's 80th birthday and all of the other things that happened before Dec. 28, but for now I will just go with what I've got.
We loaded into the van early on the morning of the 28th.
We said goodbye to our Chancho's parents, where we'd slept the past two nights, and our mountains.
We drove south and east through the bottom of Utah, cut through some Colorado, then into New Mexico.
After about 12 or 13 hours we stopped for the night at a Holiday Inn Express in Albuquerque. We were up and off again by about 9am the following morning. We drove through a lot more New Mexico and finally entered the Lone Star State!
About twelve more hours of driving and we arrived in Dallas at Paul and Vicki's (Chancho's aunt and uncle) house. They have the most beautiful home in a really cool neighborhood in Dallas. They treated us with such kindness and love. We spent two nights with them before our possessions arrived on the truck on Friday afternoon.
I felt so very blessed. I was truly dreading the drive. I had been so sick and uncomfortable and I knew the kids would not like being in the car for that long. However, I felt buoyed up the whole time. Chancho did have to do almost all of the driving, but I must say it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. The kids all behaved quite well and I was very proud of them. It was a huge relief to arrive here in our new state!
3 comments:
I just read Jana's blog and was happy to read you two were able to connect down there! What a leap of faith you've BOTH taken. I hope you get settled quick and find you love being a Texan! I know the hardest part for me would be leaving my parents and siblings, but we do what we need to do! Can't wait to see the picture of you and Jana!
I love this. It just made me happy and also want to cry a little seeing your little journey. I think I am going to need a lot more posts like this from you now -- just normal what is going on stuff -- maybe your rental house and boxes and rooms in it, and your neighborhood, and stopping by Janas or Aarons. It will make me happy to feel a part of what is the new norm around you. It made me sad today because when we dropped the kids at school Penny was sure she saw Addie. I had to sadly say that it was probably just a girl who looked like Addie since Addie was far away in TX. Then I thought how even Jesse knows all your kids names and I got sad to think of them not seeming so familiar to him. I'll just have to show them lots of pics.
great journey photo journal. :) i'm so glad you had a good, safe trip. i hope the adjusting is good as well.
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