The Tuesday evening that we left Huntsville, we drove 5 hours to Memphis. The Hurricane weather had pushed up over Arkansas and we had to drive the moving truck in incredibly strong winds and rain. It was terrible. Kinda matched our grief. ;)
My phone rings at Clarksville and it is my dad. He said Macy had just woke up and was inconsolable -screaming and crying, "I want my friend, Raegan." He said he didn't know what to do. But that Daddy and Pa drove up at the same stop with the moving truck and daddy distracted her by asking her if she wanted to ride in the big yellow truck. That somehow made it better!
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We still didn't know for sure where we were going to live.
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Wednesday we drove from Memphis, through the entire state of Tennessee, and into Virginia, stopping at Roanoke, VA. I think we drove like 11 hours. Considering we had 2 girls with us and only stopped to go through a drivethru, get gas, and go to the bathroom...they did AWESOME. I am one of those people who when I get on the road - I want to just to get where I am going. If you stop for 2 hours somewhere - that is 2 hours more you will have to drive later! So we were MOVING! We actually got seperated from the guys (Dad, Brad, and his dad, Luther)right outside of Memphis...they were in the moving truck...and me, Joyce and the girls were in the car. We talked back and forth on the cell phones the rest of the day - but never actually "stopped" at the same place or saw each other until the end of the day. We got to Roanoke about 45 minutes before them...may have something to do with the speed of a certain little gold Honda? Hmmmm...not sure.
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We got up Thursday morning and drove into DC. It only took maybe 3 hours to "get" to DC...but somehow (the guys were leading) we got off on the wrong exit and drove around DC for a couple of hours in our big yellow truck before we could finally find our house. (If we would have just gone up to the correct exit - it would have saved a lot of heartache
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