From Florida to Utah in 30 Hours
Last week I went to Florida for “vacation”. I use quotes because it didn’t seem like a vacation with how busy I was. I went down and had to meet a majority of Angela’s parents/grandparents/friends/etc. since she, of course, was going to move in with me all the way in Utah. I also was lucky enough to see my mom and Amy for a few hours who were down there visiting my grandparents at the same time. I arrived around 9 PM Thursday in FL and was immediately whisked into the going away party at the local bar where Angela likes to embibe. This would be BBG (Boston Beer Garden). After 2 hours or so at BBG I made the move to get the party over to Larry’s which I hear all too much about. Larry’s is your typical college-ish let’s-get-shit-faced bar, my kinda place. Needless to say it was a night I have already forgot.
The following 2 days consisted of (Fri/Sat) consisted of meeting family and seeing my own and basically taking it easy (Thursday night was a killer!). On Sunday we left for Utah from Naples, FL, this is a long drive, 2600 miles approximately, mapquest pegs this at around 36 hours of driving. The first day we made it up to the GA/TN state line or a few miles past, basically to where I-24 splits, it was only about 9 PM. I wanted to continue driving to try and make it up to the TN/KY border but Angela was beat and she insisted so we stayed put for the night.
Monday we hauled ass. We had to since we needed to be at our new apt to move in on Tuesday. We left at 5:30 AM and didn’t stop again until 9:30 PM – 16 hours. We made it all the way to Grand Island, Nebraska, almost half way through the state, not bad eh? We stopped a Best Western which was literally 10 days old and absolutely gorgeous. We only picked them because the guy gave us a break on the price. Pretty sure we were the first people to stay in the room. It was very nice, California king sized bed, plasma TV, walk in shower, it was great. Too bad we had to leave the next day at 5:30 AM again otherwise I would have kicked it there for sure.
Tuesday was a big day, no time to mess around. Angela was sick most of the day and I was a little assy by this point, this yielded our first car fight. After a good 2 hours of silence we made up and everyone was happy again. We finally made it back into SLC around 4:45 PM or so, another long ass day of driving; all in all it was somewhere around 30 hours of driving. As soon as we arrived we went to the office signed some papers, gave them money and were given our new apt keys.
I don’t even want to talk about the moving in process. Let’s just say I’m still not done moving out my old apt, this I must finish tonight (along with cleaning it). Our new apt is basically a giant cluster fu$k of boxes and suitcases and all kinds of crap, I have a feeling it will be a long weekend of unpacking and getting settled. The bright side, I get to go home and see her after work every day instead of on a computer screen via Skype (cue the awwwww).
Happy to be home, happier to have her there with me.
