Country roads, take me home...

We left our house at 7:00pm Tuesday night. We arrived in Greeneville at 5:00pm Thursday. Here's the rundown of what happened in between: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The Good:

Olivia fell asleep around 8:00pm the first night and slept the next 9 hours. I woke her up twice to go potty at assorted restrooms in Kansas, but she always went right back to sleep. Talk about lucky! The dogs decided they had to pee about 10 times that night, but overall not too bad. We decided to stop in Kansas City around 5:00am Denver time and slept about 5 hours before taking off again.

The Bad:

The second day was harder. The dogs were getting more and more annoying. Imagine a 120 pound lab with gas. Ugh. We had to roll down the windows every 10 minutes to air the car out. Yes, I did just tell you about our dogs gas- and we're not even to the ugly part yet, ha! We were going to try and push through until we got all the way to Greeneville, but hit some traffic and decided to stop in Paducah, KY.

The Ugly:

Only a 6 hour drive the last day, but man was it rough! Although I had given both dogs a bath before leaving, they were still shedding like crazy. There was probably 5 pounds of dog hair in the car. Every time we opened the door or window, it would swirl around us. Now, when you travel with large dogs, there's no stopping at decent restaurants along the way. It's fast food or nothing. So, imagine eating fast food with dog hair swirling around you, while said dog is drooling on your shoulder. Told you it was ugly. Ever wonder what a bored almost 3 year old does after 24 hours in a car seat? Let me show you:




That lasted the last 2 hours of the trip, although the happy screams became mad screams with "LET ME OUT" thrown in a time or two. If you're keeping up, that's 10 hours of driving Tuesday night, 10 hours Wednesday, and 6 hours Thursday. Yes, it took us 26 hours, which beat our old record of 24 hours, ha!

Now for the pictures! Here's what our car looked like:



We dropped my car off at the airport, so Olivia and I have a ride home Tuesday, which is how I got that picture. We didn't have room for anything but us and the dogs inside the car, so our luggage ended up on the roof and back hitch of the car.

Olivia fast asleep with the dogs looking on- probably hour 2 of the trip:



What is it with us and snakes? The very first gas station we stopped at in Kansas had this slithering around the gas pumps:



I had just got the dogs back in the car when Michael spotted it. Nice.

We had a hard time finding a hotel room the 2nd night. We finally ended up at a sketchy Days Inn. So sketchy, that Olivia decided the TV needed a good cleaning and used Bodine as a step stool:



When we finally got to Michael's parents house, she literally ran wild for about 20 minutes. Then she spotted the riding lawn mower and insisted that Daddy take her for a ride:



The best part about the trip? It's finished and we don't ever have to do it again! The moving company is towing my car, luckily. What's really funny is we can't get Olivia to get in the car now. We've been mostly laying around recovering today and I've asked her several times if she wanted to go somewhere. She always says "No, you go and I stay here." Ha! Probably afraid we'll strap her in for another 26 hours!
Michael and I leave tomorrow to hopefully decide on a house! Fingers crossed!