We left home yesterday afternoon to start our journey to Texas. I really wanted to leave Wednesday afternoon after Jeremy got home from day camp but we were not prepared to go. In addition to finishing the packing we were still trying to find an animal sitter. Everyone we asked wasn’t going to be home either. We spent Thursday morning still looking for an animal sitter, and we left as soon as we left the key with the sitter we finally found.
On the drive as we headed south in Utah I saw this awesome cloud, and it looked like it had a smiley face. So I had to get a picture.
We drove all afternoon and into the night. We drove east into Colorado, and continued on a south eastern route. I remember an attendant at a gas station in Montrose, Colorado warning us when we stopped about 10 pm to fill up that the next big town, Gunnison, was about an hour away and that after that there would be NOWHERE to stop for a very long time. Well he wasn’t kidding. We got to the next big town around 11pm and Kyle felt like we should push on just a bit further before stopping for rest. We ended up driving several more hours. It was about 2am when we finally drove through a very small town with two hotels. Kyle ran into one of them to find out how much they charge and came back saying “$200 for one room”. Ugh! I refused to pay $200 just to take a nap! So we kept driving. We passed through the northeast corner of New Mexico in the early morning hours, and we crossed the northwest Texas border about breakfast time. We stopped to get gas again, but there was nowhere to get some breakfast. I had lunch meat and other sandwich stuff packed, but that wasn’t breakfast. I ended up passing out some dried fruit (blueberries, cherries, apricots) for a breakfast snack to hold everyone over till we could find a place to get some food.
Later on we stopped at a dairy queen and let the kids pick out an ice cream treat. I had an pina colada julius and Kyle had a shake. Then we swung by a McDonalds to get some nuggets for lunch. Then we got back to driving.
We got to Cheddar’s, the restaurant Debby chose for dinner, about 6pm. I honestly don’t remember if that was Texas time or the time in the van (which would be Utah time). We were so exhausted and out of it by this point. We unloaded all the kids at the restaurant and Grandma and Grandpa offered to watch them there, while Kyle and I got back in the car to go to the office to get a pass to get onto the base. We got that all taken care of and went back to the restaurant and were seated shortly after we got back. Dinner took awhile to come out, and by the time it did I was just too exhausted to think about eating. We finished up and the restaurant and followed Debby to her house, we unloaded only the necessaries and went to bed.
