Aug. 11, 2007
We made it!!

and I can honestly say it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated. The first 2 days we pushed pretty hard with as little stops as possible, and one hotel night from HELL, but the second 2 days weren't that bad, we had a few fun stops planned and fewer miles to count down. Don't get me wrong, we TOTALLY had our moments, a few pooppy diapers that took some real skill changing in the car, but, we all made it, even the dog attatched to the back of the Suburban. For all of you who thought we'd get pulled over or she'd hate it, we didn't get pulled over even once and she actually seemed to enjoy it, and would get in her crate willingly after stops.

Our first fun stop was Sunday afternoon at Kirtland, Ohio, a Mormon church history site we'd never been to before. Then that night we hit Niagra Falls from the US side. We didn't want to try to cross the border with Duchess. The next morning we stopped at Palmyra, New York, another church history site. Then we pushed on for the 4th and final day, arriving in Newport around 10pm on Monday July 30.
Before checking in to the Navy Lodge, we wanted to drive by our new/old house and check it out. As we drove by Isaac, who had worked his way out of his carseat and onto the console between Adam and I up front, said, "I think I'm going to cry". It kind of took us off gaurd, everyone else was bouncing off the car walls we were so happy. Then Adam asked him, "Because you're happy or sad?" He replied, "Happy".

From there we drove the Navy Lodge, and that's where we've been staying ever since...all in 1 room together. Hopefully only 3 more days though. We should close on the house on Tuesday. We made it through inspections, and more negotiations, and then back and forth a few times on those negotiations, but finally all should be set to go Tuesday morning. Today we've just got to get a few things like phone, electricity, and internet set up. I tried to stay busy this last week to make the time pass....I tried to make the kids sleep till 9 every Amorning, then we'd try to get out to let the maid clean our room...one day to the children's museum in Providence, one day to library and to check out their new school, several hours at petco while it was rainy with Duch, 2 days school clothes shopping. Memo to self, never take the boys school clothes shopping w/us girls ever again, it was painful, but our only option seeing that Adam is back to work and I don't know many people to swap with yet.