Now that we have covered vacation its time to go home! well as much as North Carolina can be considered home anyway. now that we have gotten settled in it feels a little more like home. As for now wherever Steven takes me will be my home.
Day 1 -
The plan was to start our drive back to NC on Monday morning whenever we woke up, and packed the car, because Steven decided to buy a new truck on our trip we ended up renting a trailer from U-Haul to tow my Jeep back behind the Truck, so we had plenty of space to just pack the Jeep full of stuff and not worry about room in the truck, that made me happy :). Any way for some reason i felt the need to pack on Sunday night after we got back to my parents house which was pretty late. And being the nice husband that Steven is he packed up all my stuff (i have alot of stuff) instead of going to bed early. I think that was a good feeling on my part because Monday morning was COLD!!! and frosty, no complaints though :) its a nice change from the warm sunny winters they have out here in NC.
Day 2 -
Surprisingly we woke up pretty early and were on the road by about 8 am. We had a great start and the drive was pretty nice too. (at least for me, Steven drove the whole way) He didn't complain either. Well until we got closer to the Missouri line.. when Steven decided to tell me that he was still on vacation and he was going to do what he wanted.. and he wanted to go to Nauvoo.. First of all i had no idea what Nauvoo was and it was about 3 hours out of the way and it was already getting dark outside. So after my constant grumpiness for about an hour, we... (he) decided to stop for the night a little ways out of Kansas City and finish the drive to Nauvoo in the morning :)
So we drove the next 2 hours to Nauvoo Tuesday morning and i actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. Most of you already know what it is and what not, but for the very few of you who don't, its an old historical town just across the Missouri State line where the LDS settled after fleeing from the mob people who wanted to kill them. The town was pretty neat, they show you how they made bricks, food, bread, how they lived, how they made the wagons and the blacksmith shop, and we even got to see the home of the man who started brownings firearms. and where he made his first guns.
It would have been nice to stay a little longer than just a couple hours but it was really cold and windy that day and we needed to get back on the road. So we got back on the road and crossed a few more state lines, and i of course had to insist Steven try to slow down at least a little so i can get pictures haha. I got some pics but they aren't the best, we decided to stop for our second night in a small town Columbus Indiana, because we didn't want to stay in Kentucky like last time. for some reason every motel we passed in Kentucky looked gross.
Day 3-
Yay! its day 3 only one more days drive and we should make it home by tonight! well maybe... not to far out of Columbus, I was on the phone with my mom but Steven noticed a funny noise from his back tires and someone in another car pointing at the trailer.. uh oh.. We pulled off on to an off ramp and found out that our back tire on the trailer had been completely shredded. So Steven spent the next half hour on the phone talking to some lady with U-Haul who seemed to know absolutely nothing. Finally they got a man to come and bring us a replacement tire, we would have fixed it ourselves but they don't have spare tires on their trailers.. maybe something they should learn in the future? and back on the road again! It only took about an hour and a half off our drive time. After a few gas/bathroom/food stops we finally made it to North Carolina yay! sadly my picure didn't turn out to well because it was raining. But we did make it home in only 3 days at about 10:30 PM. at which point i was ready to just crawl in bed but Steven was running off caffeine and candy, so he insisted on taking my Jeep off the trailer that night and unloading some of our stuff, (not all of it that would take forever).
The Road signs are in order. we went thru Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and finally North Carolina
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