The Move

Woke up bright and early (or dark and late) at 3:30 and I thought immediately, "Grreat. Now we're leaving any second and I have to be sure and not forget anything!" I tried to hurry as fast as possible, but, you try going to bed at around 10 or 11 and waking up at 3:33am!! After I thought I had finished all my "gathering and stuffing", I went to ask my mom when we were going to leave? We weren't too sure and... We left at about 4:30, of course! :} Just a tad bit off, but, we're gypsies, we can handle it!
So we're off and my sister and I begin the famous saying in foreboding voices, "This is going to be the trip of Hell... We call it the Hell TRIP!.." Of course, I can't sleep because packing the car and certain individuals going to the bathroom RIGHT before we were going to leave, just took eons. I knew it was bound to happen after all that madness of walking back n' fo' and back n' fo and... Just woke us up REAL well. Never can tell when I lose consciousness in a car.. Oh well!
We drove on and on and it was really impressive scenery! The Red Woods were beautiful with the sun hiding behind the thin clouds. Bursting forth were the green shrubbery and tropical orchids. The otters playing joyfully in the clear running streams... OR, not.
To be more accurate, I think I should mention the fact that we were driving in the desert until we stopped so my parents could sleep in the desert at a hotel. It worked out well, my parents would sleep in the afternoon while my sister and me would swim/go on the internet/etc. We just HAD to update our status!!
This first hotel we stopped at (about 2pm), if I remember right, it was run by an Indian. Who was, quite Indian. We swam in the "veri clean" pool. However, with special tools (aka: goggles) I saw right onto the pool floor and dusted away much clouds of dust. Oh well...
We left that night around 9:30 or 9:45 and we were on the road once again. I think that was the night Sarah and I watched some Cosby show and then when she went to sleep I watched a little of The Skydivers (A Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie). Oh yeeah! At one point there is a close up of a kids face and the comment is, "Could you staple my ears back please?" After that I went to sleep and I think I slept well, except of course waking up several times with that b e a utiful sunshine beating down into my closed eyes.
We stopped at a Denny's and for some reason Sarah and I weren't that hungry. Hopefully we have conveyed some point to our parents.. That's sad that it has to be like this, but... One must be truthful sometimes.
The day went by and we stopped at about 11pm this time. I hoped that this would be plenty of time to sleep and we could leave earlier like 8. My father had other plans. He had to go "get the car fixed" and see the weather on the flat screen. My oh my... We left this hotel right around 9, so not that bad. I want to say this was the hotel with a pool that had a birthday party going on, so no swimming for us until that was over. Little sniveling whiny kids running around on the now dirty slippery pavement around the pool. To bad I didn't get to see one of them careen out of control and fall flat on his/her back! Hysteria! (Wonder if that's correct...)
I am quite sure we saw some interesting sites on this trip so far, but they will be out of order, so, get over it.
At Denny's there was a certain lady that was a little on the mammoth side and she had the most incredible laugh! It wasn't a mocking sort that you might hear as a joke or something of that nature it was definitely her laugh. I thoroughly enjoyed my frozen egg and... Something in the middle at one of the hotels. Or... Yes, NOT!! At one of the hotels at breakfast there were those instant, sugary packets of oatmeal and I went to go set my down but didn't care to much where this spot was and randomly chose right near the toaster. Just as I sat this down on the counter, I notice a lady walk up out of the corner of my eye and roll her eyes and let out a small sigh. Whew! I said, "Oh, I'm so sorry!" Kind of laughing at my stupidity, and she doesn't say a word. Probably just thought, "Oh grreat! Some moron deciding to put his meal right where I want to toast my english muffin! Jeez!! Get the HAIL out!" Went to a Crackle Barrel (obviously) and saw some sights. Plural. You always do when you go to one. These included: interesting old people ordering LOADS of food to gum, poor folk in their rockers on the porch hoping to be called, a southern waitress (can you believe it?!) messing up our order very nicely, and simply, some people that shouldn't have been seen or heard of until 11:34am, instead of 7:45! I also managed to catch a glipse of a very suspicious hitch-hiker! My word! Don't they know that's illegal?? Oh wait, if I were a policeman I don't think I would bother hitch-hikers either! Yikes!
The last hotel when we got to NC was another Hampton Inn, but this time my sister and I shared a room when my parents got the other! Hah, watched some serious Tube! (Sound of Music....) Interesting part to that movie I had no idea was in there! Did you know that there is a scene with the Captain and Mariah and they have a song together?! Wow, interesting! (After the song had been going on for 12 minutes singing about fate(?), I believe my sister and I could figure out why it was skipped.. Our mom isn't too keen on the whole fate business and... It's a 34 minute production!)
We ended up having to stay two nights in this hotel (didn't get the other room the next night though) because the rental house that we were going to move into was not ready. Finally moving in we tried to get settled as best as we could and my sister and I were finally enrolled in the public school after missing 2 weeks of it.
The Hell Trip was really great! Oh, 'scuse me, The Move was quite intriguing. I wasn't sure about anything really, but God kept us safe on the journey and that's what is important. I definitely learned ONCE AGAIN to trust Him no matter if the answer does NOT come until the very last second!