Once Brandon and I found out that he would be attending George Mason University in Virginia, we started planning. We chose a moving company, decided on how we were getting there and even made a trip to Virginia to find an apartment. Every thing seemed to go smoothly until *duhn…duhn…DUHN!* the moving company decided they wanted to charge us $1,000 more than the quote. And they were so gentlemanly enough to tell us AFTER they packed half of our lives into their moving truck. So we so kindly (ahem) told them to bring our stuff back up and leave.
We had to think fast and decided to rent a moving truck, tow our car and drive across country to get us to our new home: Fairfax, Virginia. We (as in me, Brandon, his brother-in-law, nephew, Dad, MT, MT’s frat brothers and some of the EQ) packed up the moving truck and parked it at my in-laws. We stayed there at the Robison’s for about a week before we left on our journey.
We left Las Vegas around 8am on Wednesday morning. We drove across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas on the first day. We stopped in Texas so we could get sleep (only 3 hours) and showers. Then it was “On the Road Again” (I kept singing that song and let’s just say that it is banned from car rides for the rest of my life) through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia.
We made it to Virginia around 1pm on Friday (took us about 36 hours altogether to get here). After we signed our paperwork and got our keys, we started to unpack. Brandon’s new friend from GMU offered up his assistance and he helped Brandon carry all the big stuff up to our new apartment. We unpacked mostly everything before we drove to D.C. to pick up my sister Shilo from Union Station (she came down from New York to help us unpack…I love her!) The next day all we did was unpack and put the house together. Shilo cut my hair and I dyed hers. On Sunday we went to our new ward and dropped Shilo back off to go home.
This week we have finished unpacking, have been organizing the house, putting up artwork and looking for a job (for me). I have a couple of hopefuls but there is nothing for sure yet. We are slowly learning the area, or at least we are finding where all the Wal-Marts and movie theaters are. We have a neighbor that moved in the day after us and she is nice. We actually ran in to her today at the DMV.
Ah, the DMV. Out here their DMV is located in a mall. A MALL ladies and gentleman! Unfortunately, having it in a mall didn’t make the experience any less painful. It was filled with loads of rude people and employees who don’t know what it means to be “pleasant”. We should be getting new Virginia licenses in a week or so. I had to take my picture and the lame thing is that you can’t smile in your pictures….you have to “look natural”. And we all know that if I don’t smile in my pictures, I don’t look natural…I look awkward. So I might post my license picture if it comes out as funny as I think it will.
I will let you all know as soon as I get a job. We will be shooting a video of our new place and I will post that soon. Thanks for reading!
