Just woke up from Night 2 of the trip. We are currently at some random town in Mississippi (all I can remember that it was Exit 4) and we are about an hour outside of New Orleans. We planned on stopping at Meridian, but having a dog makes it much harder to find a hotel room.
Driving down here has made me realize a few things. First off, there have been some crazy rain storms (like people pull over or put their emergency flashers on so you can see them) with really dark clouds, which makes me realize that we should probably start worrying about tornadoes if that happens in, say, Texas. I love extreme weather like that, but that made it a little creepy. I've also realized that "cities" down here are not cities. Any random town in Northern Virginia is bigger than these places, and Reston Town Center by itself beats most of them, and don't get me started on Tysons. The mall in Tysons by itself probably has a higher population. Also, the south would be a lot cooler if people didn't have accents. Even listening to the radio can be difficult because the commercials sound so awful. I will say, though, that some towns (Birmingham, for example) have pretty good music. We were able to find 2 or 3 radio stations we liked when we were lucky. Speaking of which, as I was driving through a one lane construction zone I had a chick with Texas plates tailgating me like crazy.. despite the fact that I was going 10 mph over and that speeding fines were doubled. I then realized that this girl probably already hated me because I was driving a beautiful brand spanking new Prius (in my humble opinion..), but would hate me much, much more if she realized that I was listening to NPR and moving from DC to LA (not the state). I feel liberal just saying that. She was sooo not liberal.
Kaos has been so cute in the car its ridiculous. I'm sure when people think of pitbulls they think of some ferocious killing machine (shout out to Linnhe and Todd) but he was like a stuffed animal yesterday. He literally slept the entire way from Radford to the hotel and would periodically change positions so he could cuddle with a different person. Maybe I should have said rag doll instead of stuffed animal, because they were usually extremely awkward positions. Plus, when we were eating at this (delicious) BBQ place in Nashville he wasn't even excited when people walked by our outdoor table unless it was someone in the family. People were walking past us and he just ignored them completely. What a cutie ;)
The first night of our trip we stayed at Mark and Maddy's house. That was really helpful, plus we got to see their new place. I love old houses so much, and their house has that cute old house charm. All of the details around the doors and in the stair wells. Plus they painted it really cool colors and have great decorations and stuff, so it was just really nice.
Before that we had just been running endless errands and packing up last minute stuff. For some reason that was the hardest packing we had to do. It was all such random stuff that we're lucky we didn't forget in a lot of cases, and then we had to squeeze it in the truck somewhere. Everything fit so I'm still glad we got the 12 foot, but its all jammed in like puzzle pieces. Kristen, Jon and Zach's family came over to see us off, which was really hard. I said the other day that it had finally hit me that I was moving, but looking back I don't think it has hit me at all. It feels more like I'm moving back to Fairfax or something, just with a reallyyyyy long vacation in the mean time. It definitely hasn't hit me that I'll never be back at the house I grew up in again, or how long it will be before I see the people I see constantly at home. Not to mention that I'll probably/hopefully never work at CCF again, yet that place is still on my mind pretty often.
Anyways, today the first real vacation part of this trip - New Orleans. I'm very excited. I've never been there before (if you don't count when I was one year old) and neither have Connor or Zach. I think everyone but me is primarily excited for the food and eating constantly while we're there. I'm excited to see the French Quarter, Garden District and places like the Ninth Ward that were devastated in Katrina. Tonight Zach and I camping so I probably won't get to update the blog, unless my parents' room has wifi, until Austin.
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