The Start Of Our New Adventure-Part 5- Virginia

Well, there are several things that stand out about our journey across the country.  The fun things aside, I HATE Wyoming!  It is ugly rolling hills with nothing but brown on them.  There was no vegitation and no color.  Second, I LOVE Omaha and the state of Nebraska in general for many reasons the first 4 are: My bro and sis & soon to be 2 nieces live there, they produce mass quantities of CORN!!  Did I mention that corn happens to be my FAVORITE veggie of ALL TIME?!  I LOVE IT! 3.  Home of Cabelas!  I'm a preparedness nut, love that store!  and 4.  Thunder/lightning storms!!!  I LOVE them!  These storms shook the house and rocked my world!  So, I loved Omaha!  So we left Omaha and drove thru St. Louis I believe.  Here is the famous arch, from the road.

It took us 2 days, roughly, to get from Omaha to Mechanicsville, where our home is.  We tried to stop at a rest stop to sleep but Nate couldn't sleep much so we just kept going.  He amazes me.  We stopped also in a town in West Virginia that I can't remember the name of to eat breakfast and let Nate sleep in the car.  We ate at a McDonalds and I had oatmeal that was SOOOOOO good!  Seriously the only thing I've ever said that about from McDonalds!  It was yummy.  Nate slept for about an hour and we got back on the road.  We saw a different route that was shorter distance wise and decided to take that to get there faster........it was shorter alright because of all the hairpin turns and windy roads....It was crazy!!  It was also crazy beautiful!!!!  Sadly, I didn't give Alyssa and Conner the meds in time to kick in and well 1/2 way into this part of the drive we hear, "Mommy, I feel sickeey!"  GREAT!  We pulled over into this quiant little gas station and used the bathroom and got gas.  I asked the clerk how much more we had in curvey windy roads.  Her response, "Oh honey, ya'll got a good piece a drivin' yet! It's 2 hours that way until ya'll get out of these mountains!"  Great I said....  So we went outside and walked around hoping that the medication would kick in and a man in a tractor pulled up to fill up his .....vehicle?....He was really really nice and shook our hands.  Then he asked where we were from and where we were going.  We told him a little bit about our situation and he said, "If ya'll need a place to sit and rest and let the little ones play, I got a church I go to just up the road with a playground for the kids and a bench for ya'll to sit on.  You can go there if ya'll want.  I said, that would be GREAT!  Let's do that.  I thanked him profusely and he was very gregarious and helpful!  We drove about 30 seconds up the road and saw the church he was talking about, and the playground behind it:

I'm so grateful for that guy!  The kids had fun and it was just enough time for the meds to kick in.  Here's more of the scenery.

Yes, it's this green EVERYWHERE!  It's so pretty!
Then, after 24 hours in the car we finally arrived!  The kids jumped out of the car and I snapped a few pictures.

This is what you see pulling up to the house, this view is from New London Rd. which is our street.  There is a street that runs right next to ours called Charleston.  It's a tiny dirt road that runs down the left side of the the house when you are looking at this picture.  It looks like this:

This view is the truck pulling up with all of our things.  We were pretty excited about that!

Here comes the truck and the second one is the kids waiting.  Not much to do in an empty house with no friends and not much food.  They were troopers, they handled everything really well.
Here is the view of the backyard from that little side road.

This is just the backyard I'm trying to get the other pictures I have from Nate's camera that have the inside of the house.  I'll get those tonight.  I feel like I'm going camping every time I look out the window.  It's really pretty, I just don't really dig the bugs though.  They all look really weird and the cicadia's are LOUD!  They sound like rattle snakes.  Overall, we are really happy with being here and I LOVE the yard!  In the next post I'll post the pictures I took of the boys riding their ATV's around our acre!!!!  Oh and it rains here about 2-3 times per week.  Complete with thunder and lightning!!  I'm in weather heaven!  Honestly!  I can just crank down my AC to 72 degrees make some comfort food for dinner and pretend that it's cold outside.  It's nice!  Until you go outside, then it's 90 degrees and still raining.  That is something I don't think I will get used to, but in the house, I love it!!!!  More later....