on the road

Well we are finally on the road. We left on Friday. It's been really chaotic, but exciting! Getting our house ready to sell was going really well until the last day. We were able to put Fin in daycare for several days, which was very nice because while she was eating snacks, playing and napping we were cleaning, cleaning, cleaning and some packing too.  We stayed at La Quinta for 3 nights, which was nice but made things more complicated. We had a hard time organizing everything between the truck, trailer and moving truck.

The last day was pretty awful. We thought we had just a few things left to do, but of course everything takes longer than expected and I ended up leaving with the dogs and Finley at around 3 pm. We then realized that Ben wouldn't be able to leave until 7 pm and our planned stop was 5 hrs away...which even with stopping in Portland for dinner would leave Finley and I and the dogs by ourselves at the campsite for several hours waiting for Ben with the trailer.  Luckily, we were able to cancel the campground reservation and get a hotel reservation. Fin and I met Brooke for some yummy Thai food and then headed down to Salem to good old La Quinta. Unfortunately, they didn't have any dog friendly rooms and it was too late to change hotels, so the dogs ended up staying in the trailer. It was a long, long awful day, but so nice to finally be done with the house and on the road.

The next day was so much better. We went to Mt Shasta and got into town at around 5 pm. We set up the trailer and then took the dogs to the dog park and Finley to a playground. We decided to skip cooking and went out to a local pub for dinner. It was a nice relaxing evening in the most amazing weather. Later that night Finley woke up in the middle of the night coughing, but went back to sleep after some cuddling and some heat in the trailer.

The following day we got to Reno at around 2:30 pm. We had some time to finalize the paperwork for selling our house and relax with Gran and Pop. The dogs loved running in the nearby golf course and we took care of lots of errands and organizing of the trailer. Finley enjoyed her sleeping arrangements and caught up on much needed sleep..she had been going to bed at 11 and waking up a 8 am. A girl needs at least 12 hours of sleep! We traded cars and now have a Ford Escape, which is a bit bigger and 4WD. I'll get used to it quickly with all this driving! We celebrated Finleys birthday on Monday with an ice cream sundae and we said goodbye until May 3rd. Ouch!

This morning we left before Finley woke up and heading out of Reno at around 9:30. We arrived in Salt Lake City at 7 pm, but lost an hour so we were in a bit of a rush to get the dogs some exercise, heat up leftover ribs make by Pop along with some frozen vegetables and finalize the organization of the trailer. We put all our clothes "away", put away the extra toiletries that we aren't using, organized the dogs closet and put a new memory foam mattress pad on the bed. Whew. Tomorrow we are going to Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 7 hour drive.