Life in WY

Okay, Alan is on the phone with his family so hopefully, I can actually get a blog posted! A lot has happened over the last month, so here goes:

I'm gonna start with our road trip here. We left on Wednesday afternoon after being up until almost 4 Tuesday night and getting only a few hours sleep. Packing...ugh! We stayed in a hotel in Arkansas the first night. Arkansas was flat and bland. The next day we stopped in St. Louis and went to the Gateway Arch...incredible!!! We had a rough time there because Alan's pathfinder starting going schizo and wouldn't shift out of park. Considering all of our belongings were in a trailer attached to the pathfinder, you can imagine my panic! Thankfully, we found the instruction manual to the car and got it to shift out of park. We stayed in a hotel in Missouri Thursday night. Friday, we drove through part of Kansas, Iowa, and into Nebraska. We stayed at a KOA in Nebraska that night. We got there after dark, 25-30 mph winds, and we had never put our tent together before. Needless to say, it took us a good while to get the tent together and we didn't sleep very well that night. We got up Saturday morning and figured we would stop in the next town for breakfast. Too bad it was 10 when we left the KOA and the next town was 45 minutes away (i.e. breakfast was no longer being served). We had an early lunch instead and hit the road for Wyoming. I drove ahead of Alan and arrived about 2 hours earlier so that I could try and get a storage unit for our stuff, but everyone was closed since it was July 3rd (holiday). Anyways, I ended up not getting a storage unit so we had to keep our stuff in trailer an extra day. We drove around town and found a decent hotel with a good weekly rate and got checked in.

Sunday, we went to church services at Laramie church of Christ and loved it! Everyone was so friendly and we made some friends who took us out to lunch and for a drive through the Snowy Range mountains. On Monday, our first objective was to find a place to store our stuff. We found a storage unit and got our stuff unloaded and took back the Uhaul. We got a copy of the local paper and just started calling places about apartments. We looked at two that were okay, one that could only be described as a dungeon (I seriously almost didn't even go in, and I wish I hadn't!). The fourth apartment we looked at was incredible! When we arrived, we found out it was actually a three bedroom instead of two! It came with a fairly new washer and dryer and the kitchen was remodeled! We talked it over and decided that we couldn't do any better than this so we decided on this apartment! We started moving stuff in on Tuesday and we love it here!

Well, I'm getting tired of typing and it's getting close to dinner time so I'll write more later!