journey to ohio

thursday night, we spent the night at my parent's house while matt's mom & step-dad stayed at a nearby hotel. friday morning we waited and waited to find out what time our closing would take place....very long story, but it ended up being at 4pm. this actually turned out to be a blessing because it gave me the chance to have lunch with my mom & brother, pick up lex with matt so we could say goodbye to ryan & carrie, and see my dad & mom one last time right before we drove out of texas. we ended up driving onto highway 75 at about 8pm. we were *very* thankful that matt's parents had decided to take the two rental trucks and leave early in the day so we only had to take their car and my car and meet them in st. louis at a hotel.

we drove all night friday night and finally reached the hotel around 5:30am. to my surprise, we were met in the parking lot by pat & david (matt's parents) who were loading their stuff as we were unloading ours. they had reached the hotel around 8:30pm, so they were rested and ready to go! it was actually a good thing that they were so far ahead of us, because we had other family and friends meeting us at the apartment on saturday afternoon to help us unload the trucks. so, matt and i stayed at the hotel with lexi and slept from about 7 - 11am (we had to enjoy the free breakfast first!) before loading up the cars and heading back onto the road.

it took us the rest of the day to reach columbus, i think we finally made it to the apartment sometime around 8:30pm. but to our surprise, everything was completely unloaded and in the apartment when we arrived! there were even roses on the table and sheets on the bed! for as messy as the apartment was, with boxes and such everywhere, it was so beautiful after two days of driving and 2 days of having everything packed up before that! we were so thankful that we could just come in and rest and talk with all of the great people that were willing to help us.

journey to ohio