Made it out of DC saturday and spent all day sunday cleaning out our boxes and packing, re-packing and squeezing something in every last nook and cranny. Even my parents, who have moved half a dozen times in their lives, were impressed by our packing “skills”.

One victory under our belts, we hit the road Monday morning during a snow storm. Yup, you read that right. A snow storm. 5 inches over night and an additional 4-5 inches after we left. We got up before 5am and shoveled out the car and the parking spots.

Around 5:50 am we left my parents house, hit our last wawa (the horror! 1000 miles without wawa!!) along the way and found ourselves on the PA turnpike in no time. The first two hours were rough, but after we passed Harrisburg there wasn’t even a snowflake in sight. 13 hours later we pulled up to my aunt and uncle’s in Illinois, ate dinner and promptly fell asleep on the couch.

Got up Tuesday morning and went to my grandparents. After a brief visit, we headed out to see more family for dinner and a mini-bon voyage party. Check out our balloons, they even had out names on them!

As a special treat, we ate at one of my grandparents favorite restaurants downtown and enjoyed a delicious steak…prepared by fire at our table side.  It was delicious, but the show was even better.

It’s been an exhausting three days and we’re about an hour late hitting the road this morning so I better get going.  Today we head to Arkansas hopefully see my cousin at the University of Illinois on our way down.