Livermore to Louisiana and a Few Shout Outs

We left Livermore bright and early Saturday morning to begin our almost 2000 mile drive to Louisiana.  The kids did an amazing job riding in the car-as always!   Quick shout out to Granny and PopPop for the doodle books that kept the kids busy for 2 afternoons straight!  While driving we did learn that our sweet Liam does not like freeways!  He was always asking "When are we going to get off the freeway?"  When I decided to tell him he was like an old man because he loves cars and hates freeways he became upset, so needless say I didn't make that comment again but he did ask about getting off the freeway another thousand times or so! 

Our nightly stops included Vegas (where we swam like champs until we were just too hungry for dinner around 8:30!), Albuquerque (where our sweet friends left us a huge bag of goodies at the front desk because we arrived to late to be able to play, shout out Agnes'!) and Amarillo (where Liam didn't want to go to bed so he stood next to his bed until who knows when!).  

Tuesday as were we an hour out from Barksdale to drop off the car and trailer we ran into a little hiccup...earlier in the drive I was cleaning out the glovebox like any good passenger and I came across our expired registration!  We were unable to find a current one so at the next stop David checked the tabs, sure enough they were expired!  The next morning I paid for our new tabs online and had them sent to the new house.  We thought alright we're good to go but opps maybe not!  We totally forgot about not being able to get onto base with expired tabs!  So the brain storming session began and 10 minutes into it we called our friends the Lewis' who have a crazy large yard in the city and asked if we could park it at their house.  With out missing a beat they said yes and our problem was solved!  Shout out to the Lewis' for being amazing!

Driving, riding and unloading at hotels every night is a lot of work but this country of ours is so beautiful and I feel so fortunate that I get to see so much of it!