The Long Haul..alright, the two-day haul

June 19th, at roughly 1pm (and roughly 4 hours after I would have liked to leave--I underestimated the volume and number of my belongings) Richel, Murphy and I packed up the car, got some Sonic for the road and headed out of the SLC.


The car was packed. I don't know if the picture below fully explains how PACKED it was!


We hit traffic right away. Of course.


And then we were in Idaho.


I had great co-pilots.


We made it into Oregon...even though Oregon didn't really play along with our "take pictures of the state signs" game.


We stopped for day one in Ontario, Oregon at the Sleep Inn. We headed down into town to Romio's (I spelled it like they did!) Pizza to get some delicious dinner! The little downtown was cute, but rundown.


However they did have a tuxedo/coffee shop. How could they go wrong?


Murphy relaxed in the pet-friendly hotel.


The next day we drove across Oregon and up to Lacey. We drove through rain most of the day. The highlight was the car show that we landed in the middle of!


We drove through lots of turbines, and I can understand why! The winds were very high so we proceeded with caution. Luckily, the sun came out when the winds came up.


When the winds died down, the evergreen trees started to spring up and the rain began to fall again.


We hit the Washington state line about 3:30pm.


I wanted to arrive by five. Guess what? We made it at 5:05!


We unloaded most of the car. Richel found a great new way to carry my collection of soccer/futbol scarves from the car to the apartment.


We grabbed some dinner in Olympia. My first PNW meal as a local. Great burgers!


Two great days with a great friend and now I'm a Pacific North Westerner!

The Chair of My Birthday Dreams...

Thanks Momma and Daddy!


Before

After!

AA1377A: It Has Begun

My U-Box (U-Haul's version of a PODS) showed up this morning! Yay! Now I can move all the packed things out of my spare room and feel somewhat accomplished.




I've loaded what was in my car: my tent and a disassembled version of the hutch below.


I got these two great lamps for my living room, however one harp is an inch taller than the other. What is that about? I figure they will be on different sides of the couch and if it really bugs I'll just buy two new harps.

Going Blue

I did some scratch-and-dent shopping yesterday at Down East's furniture sale. A lot of the places that I am looking at are 2 bed/1 bath and so I'm planning on doing my second bedroom in blue/beachy/shabby-chic decor. I found this great hutch (new in box, not scrathed or dented) for $50!


Then I stopped off at 2nd Hand Chic on the way home and grabbed this ladder (I'm going to use it as a book shelf) and old pail (trashcan).


Then, I went home and did some major packing. My spare room is getting full quickly!