With Sugar on Top: The Last Frontier

And here we are. This is going to be so fun for me! I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, but we didn't have wifi in our old apt. But, now, we do!

{View from my in-laws driveway}

Well, "The Last Frontier". Yep, that's where we are. Surrounded by mountains and glaciers, and I must say I do enjoy it. It hasn't quite set in that we're not quite on vacation. We're NOT leaving. I think it may set in once we get our own place and are settled.

As for our long, 5 day trip, lets not talk about it. Ok, fine, I will. Well, we took off Saturday night (Aug 28) from Dallas. SOMEONE (The Fancy Man) decided to get sick in the middle of the night and we had to stay at a hotel in Wichita, Kansas. We paid over $100 for a "motel" quality room. We stayed there because we were supposed to have gotten the room free because of rewards but they told us when we checked out that we had to book in advance. Boo. Any who, The Little Mister did amazingly well on our trip. I was worried because he's not a big fan of his car seat, but the tv's/dvd player Popo (my dad) let us borrow worked miracles! Thank the Lord for Veggie Tales!

Nothing very interesting happened while driving through the states. I saw probably one of my last lightening storms. No, there are no lightening/thunderstorms up here. Yes, I almost cried. Who would've thought I could be sad about not having hurricane season or tornado warnings? Well, I am. I love storms. Correction I love RAIN storms. But now I get to enjoy earthquakes and snow storms. Very unfamiliar with those two. I have been in a couple earthquakes while living in Puerto Rico, but I pretty much slept through them.

Canada, oh Canada! All I can say is, it will be quite a while until we decide to cross that border again. Don't get me wrong, the people were VERY nice to us. Canada itself, not so much. Once we got on the Alaska Hwy, (the route that takes you straight through The Rockies to cross into AK) we had construction. CONSTANTLY! In patches. Ugh! So annoying. Plus random patches of gravel road.

Which takes us to my next complaint.While driving on one of these annoying loose gravel patches, we hear a bang. First, I thought our tire blew. My brother-in-law says "that was your back window!" Really? Yes! Our back tire kicked up a rock, it bounced off of the u-haul, and shattered our window. So, we had to drive the rest of our trip without a back window. Never had I been more happy to see the American border.

So now, here we are. We are staying with my in-laws until The Fancy Man gets a secured job so we can get an apt. CAN'T WAIT! Really praying we can find a house to rent. (prayer request)

I also don't have a phone due to Verizon sucking! I will most likely be switching to AT&T. Hey just so I can keep Snowy, (my white Iphone) I'm ok.