So we set off early saturday morning. We had bought a big cargo bag thing to put on top of the car as we thought we'd have a lot more stuff this drive than the drive there. However.. we packed sooo good that we had plenty of room and the bag ended up inside the car. Which was great because we were worried about having something on the roof. So the first day went fine, quite quickly. we stayed in OFallon, Missouri and set off for a second day heading to Wyoming. The second day was harder but it also went quite quickly. We had time on our side this time so we never got to our destination later than about 8:30 which is really nice after driving for 14 hours!
So we get to Cheyenne, Wyoming and we're following our GPS which takes us through the nice part, past the nice part and into downtown gross Cheyenne. And then we see our hotel. Must be nice inside, we think. We had booked and paid for it days before thinking it was fine as the pictures looked normal and the price wasn't too cheap. But no, it reminded me of a prison. Scary scary hotel. Neither of us were relaxed enough to sleep more than about 4 hours so we left by about 6am. We learned our lesson never to stay in Cheyenne again. We found out that that was ranked 9th out of 19 in Cheyenne. Which is scary because it means there are 10 worse! Sadly as we drove down the road that morning we saw a Marriot that we didn't know about. ugh!
So we only had about6-7 hours the third day but we were so ready to be done with driving. We stopped for gas and some food and got back into the car to drive into the blinding sun and Derek couldn't find his sunglasses. Oh well. Probably somewhere in the back. So we drive a bit longer then the car starts making a rattling noise.. oh no. I looked in the back but it sounded like something was tapping against the window.. but i couldn't see anything so i open the sunroof and look out the top and see Derek's sunglasses hooked perfectly onto the roof rack shaking in the wind as we drive 70 mph. Found the sunglasses.
We got to Provo at about 2:45PM. We were so excited to see our new house. Its a little basement (pictures to come) of house owned by a couple waiting to retire there. They live in California but come back now and again every month or two to see family. She's really nice. Feels more like lodging than renting for a landlord. I think she likes feeling like we're her kids. Her parents live a few houses down and also treat us like their grandchildren. Its going to be good.
So she left us there and we started to move stuff in. Within 30 minutes we had locked ourselves out of the house. We took the wrong key with us. So off we trot to the grandparents for the key to the upstairs thinking that the door between the basement and upstairs is open. It wasn't. Derek had to get his tools and unscrew the actual lock. Another adventure.
We went to Costco with some friends and then Walmart to get a few things for the house and came home ready to just sleep. I started to make the bed but noticed it made a loud elephant type noise every time you touched it. Derek could hear it from rooms away. I sat on it and noticed that even if i moved a finger it made a noise louder than our alarm clock! So we took apart the bed and have been sleeping on a mattress on the floor since we got here.
Tuesday we needed to get a few things done on campus, including spending way too much money on books. ugh! Then we went off to DI (thrift store/charity shop) to look for cheap furniture and decorative things. We found.. not much really. An ironing board, picture frame and fruit bowl. We had nowhere to put our clothes so we needed some drawers or a dresser. IKEA!
We spent a good 3/4 hours in IKEA. love that place. We found lots of things for the house and didn't spend that much! We found a cool bookcase type thing with canvas box drawers than fit in each gap. We love it! We got home and decided to build it. IKEA are lovely the way they set out the instructions, so simple. So why does everyone still do at least one thing wrong? We spent about 20 mins fitting the bottom to the side. We were just screwing in the last screw and realised it was completely back to front. Oh well.. screws come back out. But after that it was pretty smooth sailing. we were done in about an hour and its perfect!
Hopefully we'll be done by the time class starts and hopefully we'll have more hilarious adventures the rest of the week.
There are really no words to describe the amazing experience I had as part of the cast of Peter Pan. The pictures tell it the best. But i will never forget the feelings we all felt each night as we went back to being children. Each night we heard the gasps and the squeals from young and old as Peter flew across the sky. So many great people and great memories. Glad we have the pictures to look back on :)
Now I will attempt to make up for the last 8 months of unsuccessful blog posts. lots has happened so I will post them in order starting with our first Christmas together!
As the oldest of the next generation of Moss' our little Lily is a star. She's a princess and still has time to be a genius! She graduated from pre- school this year so we wanted to congratulate her! Her teacher said she is a great role model for the younger children . So well done Lil! We're so proud of you. Hope you enjoy big school :D love Auntie Deb and Uncle Derek.
