Video // Our cross country road trip: We survived!

Oh my goodness let me just say how glad I am that our drive is over! Driving 12 hours a day is brutal, let me tell you. Brian did most of the driving because I'd get really bad headaches after a few hours in and nothing over-the-counter works on the headaches I get (I think this is my way of showing car sickness?) and Monty does not do well in the car. Poor guy was shaking and panting and stress-yawning after 1 hour in. We'd take turns holding him in the front on our laps which would stop the worst of his shaking. I didn't want to sedate him. He didn't do that the entire ride, but most of the time he would. Mabel, however, did amazing! She basically slept and looked cute the entire time in her bed on the back seat. She wasn't even phased about the long drives.

Our route took us from California through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and finally New York. I took videos of as many of the state lines as I could because I want to put together a road trip video. We drove around 12 hours a day because we had to make it to Michigan in time for Brian's Grandma's funeral on Saturday. It was a very nice service, and was very sad, but she lived a long and happy life. And I got to meet relatives from Brian's family that he hadn't even met yet. We stayed on his Great Aunt's huge farm for Easter dinner on Sunday and then we continued the rest of our trip.

It was a good trip overall. I bought my first audiobook for my Kindle (and probably my last as it was way too expensive) and we listened to it in the car. I didn't know you could do that but we have an mp3 jack already in there and it works great. Nothing happened to the car and we didn't get lost thanks to our GPS my parents got us for Christmas. The only bad thing that happened was when we were in Oklahoma, we didn't have change for the tolls; we had dollar bills. And the stupid tolls only take change and there were no people running the toll booths so guess what we ended up doing? Running 3 tolls. Each time setting off that alarm! One of those times was because we took an exit to look for a restaurant to break our bills, but there weren't any to be found so we had to get back on the turnpike and run the damn toll again. I guess I can might-should expect 3 tickets in the mail then.

So now we will be spending time with family in NY until Brian can land a transfer of his job to PA. Then we're hoping to start house hunting! It's about darn time! But it feels so good, and slightly weird, to be home with our car and dogs. The dogs met both sets of our parents as well as their cats. They are scared of the cats too which is hilarious because I thought Monty would want to eat them. Such big babies, but I'd rather it be this way than having the streets run red with kitty's blood.

So here's the video! I apologize for the bug guts seen through the windshield. We tried washing them off at the gas stations but they were seriously caked on there.