Moosman Missouri or Bust – Day 1
Our circus has left town.
Well, kind of. We’re on the on
ramp to I-5 moving about 3mph in typical JBLM rush hour traffic. We are all exhausted and ready to just get
there, and we haven’t even gone 15 feet.
I can’t even get a whole thought written without having to
look to my left and make silly faces and noises to a crabby baby. And Rolland is going to burn through my
mountain of new books and activities before we get to Spokane.
Tomorrow the real trip begins. Tonight is a “leisurely” (I say that in
quotes because we are only going 20mph on the freeway at this point) one hour
drive to SeaTac to sleep at a hotel.
Bright and early at 4am we will push out of Seattle and head towards our
first destination, Spokane. I feel like
once we get to our first major destination we will feel a lot better but right
now we are all tired and frustrated with the amount of stuff in the car.
As we dwindle down the grocery store worth of snacks I
packed (because, let’s face it, 3 year olds can snack 24/7) the car will seem
lighter and less crowded. But for now
the 3 loaves of bread (2 homemade banana and 1 wheat) will have to occupy some
space in the middle of the van.
2 hours later:
Finally all of our errands are done. Cable box returned to Comcast, baby clothes
returned to a friend, and all of the hardest goodbyes ever said and we are
ready to roll. Oh wait, gotta grab some
food. And since both boys are sleeping I
guess we will just get sandwiches from Jimmy Johns and scrap the idea of having
one last local dinner. I could probably
just eat Pirates Booty and apples and be just as happy.
I didn’t even get to finish this entry before we crashed for
bed. Rolland commandeered my computer in
the hotel room to watch Planes: Fire and Rescue, which I have a feeling will be
VERY old by the time we arrive.
May 2, 2015 – Day to, Seattle to Spokane
Taking it easy for our first day. Just a quick 5.5 hour
drive to Spokane, WA. We have lived in
WA for 4 years and have never driven over there. It’ll be so nice to see the opposite side of
this huge state. Although, Spokane gets
a bad rep I am excited to visit.
It’s 5am and we have been awake since 330. After the fiasco of trying to get 2 kids and
2 dogs into the hotel room, PLUS all of our crap, we have reevaluated our
packing situation. We have packed
clothes into a smaller backpack so that we won’t have to take huge suitcases
into our hotel every single night (especially because the suitcases are on top
of the car). Here’s hoping that tomorrow morning we are able to hit the road
earlier without waking earlier.
Anyway, I want to recap yesterday a bit before I move
on. We cleared our house with the
landlord yesterday morning, only after I had to postpone them by 30 minutes
because we hadn’t finished loading the car.
That’s what happens when you have 34938743 animals, 2 kids and EVERYONES
stuff. So the landlord comes and I’m all
worried because there are a few things that we couldn’t finish up (didn’t have
tools or the right hardware, or the right paint color). They were seriously awesome about it and are
trying to get us as much of our deposit back.
We did, however, have extra trash that we couldn’t fit in the car to
even take to the dump. We had filled the trashcan at the house and still had 2
bags (so much for a small footprint).
Anyway, part of the trash ended up in my neighbors car. She was doing her walkthrough with her
landlord at the exact same time as us (crazy, right?!) and she was headed to
the dump so a little slip of a $10 and she took our 2 bags to the dump for us
(thank goodness for AWESOME neighbors). Wes also had around 50’ of chicken wire
from our garden beds and other things leftover that we had forgotten. I had NO clue how we were going to get rid of
them so I took a quick picture, posted them in a City of Lacey swap group on
Facebook and I kid you not, they were picked up in 10 minutes! My landlord was FLOORED. He couldn’t believe someone came and took
(basically, my garbage) the wire that quick.
“Curb alerts” do wonders. So we
were able to leave the house with no garbage behind.
The car, however, was packed to the gills. We couldn’t even open the passenger door and
had to roll the window down to put MORE stuff in the front seat. The cable box, diapers and baby gift for a
friend, all the extra food from our fridge, laundry, etc…. We were
STUFFED. But thankfully I have the best
friends on the planet because they let me unload all my
food/condiments/cleaning supplies at their house and they all took stuff home
so we weren’t pitching everything. I
even got to do a last load of laundry so we were only heading out with cleaning
laundry (not that it stays very clean for long when you have kids).
So after 4-5 stops, dropping things off and a quick
rearrange at the hotel, the car is now packed better with room to spare and
everything where we can get to it when we need it. Wes is driving and Teddie is asleep. Rolland is awake but I expect him to sleep
again soon. Wes and I may switch driving
here soon since the baby is sleeping. We
are hoping to get to Spokane by 1 or 2 and have time to find a park for Rolland
or somewhere the kids can stretch their legs and be out of the car for a bit.
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