Adventures in Moving

Four days after my graduation I made another big leap in my life...we moved to Oregon. We set out on the open road on Tuesday and, after multiple gas stops, too much fast food, along with achy joints,  made it to our new home on Wednesday evening. It took us a total of twenty-five hours of driving time, traveling fourteen hours the first day and eleven the next. On Wednesday we unpacked the entire truck, filling our apartment with boxes, then unpacked a majority of the boxes.  Needless to say we got a lot done giving us time to tour our new city on Thursday and Friday.  My mom and stepdad Dave were kind enough to travel with us and drive DJ's car.  We were so grateful they came along for the fun.  They were great company on the road, awesome unpackers, and fun tourist companions.  

 DJ had fun driving the truck for the first couple of hours,and then he decided he liked is Honda much better.  He felt cool because the truckers would speak to him in trucker talk (they'd put on their flashers to signal he was clear to switch lanes), which made him feel like part of the gang. haha 

This is how we started out the drive...

but, after a couple of hours we felt like this!

We enjoyed lots of beautiful orchards and vineyards throughout California that made our drive a little more pleasant.

Mount Shasta was also beautiful. 

But, once we crossed the border into Oregon everything seemed to get ten times prettier and ten times greener.

Here is the view of our new home on the third floor.  We were really lucky to have gorgeous, sunny weather to unpack the truck in.

Since we got so much unpacking done the first night, we decided it would be fun to explore the area while my mom and Dave were still visiting.  We went to check out our school and then did some exploring in downtown Portland.

The campus is gorgeous, so different from ASU and so much smaller.

Portland was a fun place to explore and we even found our little Lukie a birthday present.

There's this really cool bookstore called Powell's Books,that takes up a whole block.  I ended up finding a $5 copy of the Hunger Games, and enjoyed searching through what little books we got to...again the store is HUGE!

After all the fun we had it was time to say goodbye.  There were big hugs and lots of tears, as we were sad to see them go.  We were so grateful for all of their help and all of the fun we had on our moving adventure.  Thank goodness for FaceTime!

(We all randomly ended up wearing plaid this day) 

Even though it was hard for my mom to leave us, she got to talk to this handsome Elder the next day which made her one happy mamma!

We've been in our new home for about three weeks now and we're loving it so far.  DJ started classes this week and has been a busy bee,coming home in the evenings for an hour then off to the library to study. We miss our family, but are enjoying our new adventure here in Oregon.