I have an amazing hubby who both loves to drive and also gets bored easily, so he drove...the ENTIRE way! The first leg of our trip was about 14 hours, which made for a very long day. We made it from Chicago to Texarkana, Tx. We arrived at our hotel and immediately felt very uneasy about our location and the surrounding occupants...eh, I felt like I was in the SOOOOUTH side of Chicago. So, we went with our gut and found another pet friendly hotel nearby where we slept very well. Our second day we had a much shorter drive (6hrs), and we made a pit stop at this local roadside Tamale truck. YUM!! Welcome to Texas where you can get half a dozen tamales and two sodas for $7!! Our kind of deal :)
Tasty Tamales curbside in Texas
We arrived on Saturday, October 8th. Bob was in Houston that following week (last week) and we enjoyed exploring our new neighborhood, working out and eating some tasty local food. We spent about 12 days camping out with an areobed, plasticware and the pups. Needless to say, I could not wait for Tuesday of this week to come, when our movers arrived with the rest of our stuff! Our "deluxe areobed accomodations" are now packed away, we have a real bed, a real couch, real cookware and after three long weeks without...we now have that thing called television!! As our movers brought boxes upon boxes in our little apartment...space filled up quickly and that was without any of our furniture. I literally had a tiny "walking pathway" from our bedroom to the kitchen , the rest of the floor space was covered in boxes. One hundred and forty eight boxes later, I am sloooowly making my way through the cardboard mess.
This is a picture from the kitchen area. Not much room to move!
Bob is currently in route to the apartment from New York. We are looking forward to spending some time together this weekend, and maybe even watching some football! We haven't watched but maybe two college games and one Bears game this whole season.
I've been feeling pretty good overall. The warmer weather is definitely easier on the lungs than the harsh cold air (at least now without the extreme humidity). I finally finished my dose of roids yesterday and ironically I had the best workout since being here today, which felt so good. Considering we had about a couple months before moving where we were on a very irregular workout schedule, we are easing our way back into shape, but it has felt so good to workout almost every day.
The pups are enjoying our new area as well. They have a full acre and a half dog park right outside our doorstep. Tarver has been a little madman, tormenting all the other dogs and playing fetch. Today, he was running so fast that he tripped over his own legs and slid on his belly about 5 ft!! Poor little guys is so low he just tumbles over himself if he isn't careful ;) Our princess Bella, is a little more reserved at the dog park, taking more to the people than she does the dogs. Today there was another dog who desperately wanted to play with her and she just wasn't having it. After much tormenting from this other dog, she finally gave in and began frapping like she used to as a puppy! I haven't seen Bella run that much since she was a pup. Needless to say, she is snuggled up, snoring on the couch after her eventful evening (somehow she managed to position herself like this under the blanket)...she is so human-like, it's weird.
Hope y'all have a great weekend! Love to all, from the Haskin's!!
