Road Trip

 

A couple weeks after we got back from Missouri we hit the road for another adventure.

Dane is interviewing for residency for the next couple months and luckily he was able to schedule 5 of his interviews all in a row so that he didn't have to take five seperate trips to get to all of them.  I was way excited that they were all in driving distance of us because I wanted to come along for the trip!!

 

We left on a Friday morning to our first destination which was West Virginia.  The drive was BEAUTIFUL it was all mountains, tree's, and rivers.  When we got there we dropped our stuff off at the hotel, took a little drive around the town, went swimming at the hotel, and then Dane went to a dinner that they were hosting for all of the applicants that night and me and the kids hung out at the hotel and made some microwave dinners, popcorn, and watched Christmas shows on the Disney channel.  The next morning the resident's wive's hosted a breakfast for all the wives of the applicants.  So me and the kids went to that while Dane went to his interview.  There were 3 resident's wives at the breakfast and 3 of us who's husbands were interviewing for their program and all of us brought kids so it was a little crazy but it was awesome to be able to get a bunch of info from all the resident's wive's about what life is like for them.  Then after breakfast me and Lexi (one of the wives that I met at the breakfast) went and hung out at the mall until our husband's were done interviewing.  I picked Dane up from his interview and we left straight for our next stop in Wisconsin.

 

     It took 10 hours to get to Wisconsin and we were all so tired when we got there.  We got up the next morning and chose a random ward to go visit for sacrament meeting and when we got there we walked in and saw our friends the Spendloves that had moved to Wisconsin from our ward in Richmond a couple years ago.  It was so random and so fun that we just happened to choose to go to their ward and it was SOOO FUN to see them and their kids and catch up with them!   And it was awesome because they invited me and the kids to go hang out at their house while Dane went to another get-together that the program in Wisconsin was hosting Sunday night.   It was way fun but it made me miss Marci all over again when we had to say goodbye!

 

After Wisconsin we drove to Michigan and once again spent our time swimming at the hotel, driving around town, and watching movies at the hotel while Dane interviewed. 

 

We went to Ohio after Michigan and I was able to get together with my new friend Lexi that I met in West Virginia (she lives in Ohio) it was so fun to hang out with her and her daughter and they took us to the imagination station which puts our Childrens Museum in Virginia to shame.  It was AWESOME, when we were done at the imagination station we met up with another resident's wife for lunch downtown.  I loved Ohio but I think it really helped that both the girls I met from there are AWESOME.

 

I picked Dane up from the hospital in Ohio and drove him straight to the airport so that he could fly to Brooklyn, New York and then me and the kids hit the road by ourselves and stayed the night in Pittsburgh. And then got up the next morning and drove to Washington DC and picked up Dane at the airport in DC after his interview in Brooklyn.

 

I have some opinions good and bad of what I thought of all the places we went but I will keep them to myself for now since there's a chance we could end up living in any of those places next year haha.  But I LOOOVED our little road trip so I could see all these new places that I had never been before and spend time together.