Well Here We Go!

So as I talked about in my last few posts my transition from WI to VA went well and is going well. The only thing that seemed to take forever was the trip here. Contrary to what you may think we didn't get a moving company and fly here. We rented a U-haul, packed it up, and the next morning we left at 2 A.M. Yes as any teenager would do I didn't go home and go to bed I stayed up so I could get my second wind. The drive that we made was not that of one or two or even three hours. This was a 16 hour drive but with traffic, gas stops, tolls, food stops, turns into a 20 hour drive. Well for the first four and a half five hours I didn't drive but I didn't sleep either. Well I guess I did sleep but it was for 15 minutes and I felt so awake after that. Well about the third stop after we had just gotten into Ohio I took over and started to drive. Well this would have not been that big of a deal because I have driven a truck/SUV before. But this was completely different I have never driven with a trailer before. This was not one of those little two wheel trailers, this was a four wheel, tires wider than the truck and the trailer, 6X12, packed with half of a house. So with no experience under my belt and if something would go wrong not an option here situation I took the wheel like I have done this a million times. For how I thought it was going to be to how it was was not to different. With two monsters, a small orange juice and a coffee down in just over four and a half hours, with remind you no sleep in about what was a good 18 to 19 hours I was ready to go up against the world. I drove through Ohio and through about half of West VA. For about the last about 130 miles Sam took over and drove again because we were getting in to the hills and he had driven them before whereas I have not. By the time we reached the apartment we had both been up for over 38 hours. Well after the 20 hours of driving when we got out of the car we were both happy because we knew we didn't have to get back in the car to drive for what seemed to be forever. Well we didn't just go inside and go to bed with unpacking just what was necessary, but we did go and lay on the floor for about a half hour. Well after those 30 minutes we went to the trailer and unpacked the whole thing. Not how you may think of unpacking we just took the stuff out and brought it all inside, so more emptied the trailer. After that we ordered out so at around 11:30 not much is open but Deney's was so we ordered went got the food and then ate. well after eating we still didn't head to bed. By the time we headed to bed it was already 2:30. Well today Sam and me didn't get up until around 1:30 the only time I got up was to feed Arovo and put him back to bed. Well after getting up we started to unpack right away. Well with sleeping for over half the day, unpacking and the little bit of running around we had to do we got all the unpacking done in about half a day. To some this may not be at all exciting but for me it is life changing. But so far in the two days of this new step in my life I feel that I have accomplished so much. As my summer here in VA  goes on I will also keep you in the loop of the what may be crazy, boring, unimaginable, or just the every day life stuff.

~The Steps that you take are never to big~