Hi, everyone! I thought it'd be easier for you to read how our trip was on here where I can think it through rather than relaying tons of details via that have become jumbled in my once-competent brain. =)
Well, we left yesterday (Friday) for the St. Louis Airport at 1:30pm CT with our wonderful friend Emily, who also had a flight that evening. Our flight ended up being delayed about 2 hours because of bad weather in San Francisco--which was where we'd take our connecting flight to Las Vegas. When we got to San Francisco our connecting flight was running about two hours behind as well, which was SUCH a blessing. We then flew out of San Francisco around 12:30am PT, and arrived in Las Vegas at 1:37am PT. For some reason the end of that flight had a lot of turbulence (or at least enough to upset my stomach/the baby), so I was very thankful not to have become that person who throws up on the plane. All our luggage was luckily in tact when we got there, and we then proceeded to the rental car area on a very cigarette-y smelling bus. Once again, I felt very fortunate to not have become that girl that throws up on the bus. After we got off the bus, our bus driver got up and sprayed himself from head to toe in Axe body spray--once again...I was very lucky to not have been that girl to throw up on the airport sidewalk. Originally, we had reserved a rental car but after we got there we figured out that particular place was not open in Barstow to return the car today (Barstow is the closest town to Fort Irwin--about 40 minutes away). So, Tyler went around to a bunch of agencies to figure out what we were gonna do and I sat/stood/stretched with our luggage and tried to think happy thoughts about our hotel room and not traveling anymore for the night. Finally, at 4am PT, Tyler decided it would be best to rent a car and drive it straight through the morning the whole way to Fort Irwin. Yes... a cry fest did almost take place there, but I trust that my husband knows what's best for us (especially compared to a sleep deprived and food deprived pregnant woman). About 2 hours of serious stomach sickness and sleep later- I woke up to a beeeeauuuutifuuuuul sun rise. The scenery was just gorgeous!! We've been told how it's not nice looking in Fort Irwin because it's the desert...but we could not feel more differently about that assessment. It felt like our car had been picked up and placed in a dinosaur movie scene. There was no grass to be seen-- just sand, rock formations, and mountains. We pulled up to our new post at about 7am PT, and it's definitely smaller than Fort Leonard Wood by far. But, we think we're really going to like it here (crossing fingers). We're now staying in a hotel on post waiting for our house to open up, and we're hoping that process miraculously speeds up soon so we can move all our stuff into our new place. Thank you to those who were/are praying for us! We made it here in one piece because of our many prayers and the many prayers of all our dear friends and family to the only One who could be of help to on this crazy journey.
Things That Made Me Happy:
7. Having TV in our hotel (we haven't had one since we've been married)
6. Palm trees
5. Having a bed to sleep in. After a trip like that- it may take a few days of sleep to fully recover.
4. Tyler: "Hey, Katie...You know what? This water probably stays hot."
(This actually made me feel weird for how happy I was when he said that. Our shower in FLW would never be warm longer than about 9 minutes...very frustrating for a woman)
3. Any Jurassic Park reference to our new home
2. Tyler carried about 130lbs of luggage because I physically cannot... that was pretty wild. It, along with a bunch of other reasons in this trip, made me REALLY love my husband more.
1. (As Tyler gets out of the car to check in to our hotel) Me: "Tyler what does it smell like out there?" Tyler: "Sand.......and dinosaur pee."
-Katie
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