Well I've just got a few minutes before my life is officially turned over to the APX office, so I thought I'd give you a little update on our trip to Kansas.
The drive was relatively uneventful, if you don't count getting on the road about 6 hrs late. We had so much junk in our car you couldn't see out the rear view mirror. (is that illegal?) I've got a picture to prove it... I almost had a mental breakdown trying to cram all our stuff into our tiny Geo. We hit another road bump on the way to Denver. It's actually called a mountain.... in Vail. The car transformed into the little engine that could up the huge pass, and our little engine did. (at about 5 miles an hour!) We arrived to Aunt Jayne's around midnight. We didn't make it on our double date with Megan, but she was still happy we came and used the excuse that she "had to let us in" to get off her date early. Smart girl...
We got to KS around 11:10 on Saturday night and we decided to unpack everything from the car and then find a grocery store. (we gave all our food away before we left Provo because there were no more holes to cram it in) So, off on our little adventure to the nearest grocer. That trip only took 2 hours. There was only one grocery store that was open after midnight.. and it was about 20 miles away. We stopped at a red light to ask a lady where the store was and she responded, "you go down to 21st and AR- kansas." (say it like /r/- for those of you who are not IPA savy- it's just the letter r) Well, I thanked her and had no idea what she said to me. We circled around another 40 minutes or so before we found a store. We went to the door and a little Mexican man stopped us and said "no open". WHAT??? He also tried to explain to me where the store was, but I couldn't understand him- there was too much wind to make out his speech. I wish I had a high-pass environmental filter so I could've understood him. We found the store. It's Kroger with the code name of Dillon's. We didn't have a card there to get the discount on the milk, so we used my mother-in-law's phone number to qualify. Thanks Mary! You'll be getting all our savings this summer :)
Monday, April 27, 2009
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hahaha poor ally! I SO REMEMBER BEING THERE!!! We crammed all our stuff into our 2 door ford escort and COULD NOT see out any windows or mirrors. Not to mention 2 dogs on top of all the crap. Seriously. Trips from hell, those APX trips. I think we usually just starved for the first couple days because we were so tired haha I'm so glad you made it ok tho!! one time we hit a pot hole and popped our tire and needed to get our spare out of the trunk (underneath ALL our junk!!). So we spread out all of our crap on the side of the interstate at 2am. Finally got the spare on. It was flat. Had to drive VERY SLOWLY and carefully to the nearest gas station on our flat spare. Their air pump closed at 11pm. Had to go to the FARTHEST gas station away to air up our spare. We drove 400 miles on that bad boy hahahahaha oh the stories you will have. Seriously, don't miss that at all. But you're more of a trooper than me. That's the time I threw I toaster I was so frustrated! hahahaha
ReplyDeleteYour road trip stories are 89734% better than mine, and by better I mean worse! Ours wasn't THAT bad.. I didn't have to drive but 4 hours because the passenger seat was all the way up into the dash. Scott could barely fit in the seat. We crammed, crammed, crammed. I'm realy looking foward to doing it again in another month, only this time the drive isn't 17 hours long.
ReplyDeleteI miss you two already!
ReplyDeleteHey! When are you moving to TX? We should have stayed another week! Boo for moving.... boo hoo.
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