7.25.2004

We're here!

So we got into Scottsdale friday night after a white-knuckled drive from Flagstaff.  We seriously drive like maniacs on the mountain roads to get here in time to check into our apartment, because it was better to risk death than to risk having to check in Saturday morning.  :)  But we made it just fine, so I guess it was worth it.  We moved all of our stuff in Saturday morning, and pretty much have been unpacking and getting our bearings here since then.  We dropped off Becca's parents at the airport at like 7:30 this morning--they called and said it took 3.5 hours to get home by air even though it took us like 33 hours to drive!  Wow. 

I don't know what else to write at the moment; the rabbit is surviving the heat ok, so far everything we packed survived the trip.  Trent, we did good with those monitor and tv boxes, btw...maybe we should begin a new company making custom, form-fitting boxes or something.

Well, I'll talk to you all again soon!

7.22.2004

Albuquerque!

So we've driven like 3/4 of the way, today through blinding monsoon rains in the desert of all places.  We're staying at my sister's house in Albuquerque, NM.  It's pretty awesome, and so is my little nephew Jackson, and her dogs Schmitty and Stonewall.  Tomorrow we'll get to Scottsdale, and hopefully the next day our stuff will get there.  Oh, also, my cell phone is working again so you can reach me at it, or, you could if i didn't have caller id, but since i do, i'll see that it's you calling, and, well...

I am thoroughly exhausted!  Good night.  Becca and I miss you all so much already, it's crazy.  The Fart Machine just doesn't bring the same laughs when it's just the two of us and Puppy.

7.19.2004

Holy crap! A second post on my blog!

So yes, I do have something to write today, not much but just enough to keep my faithful blog audience interested. Really, I'm just stringing you along, and will strictly maintain my one blog entry per six weeks schedule. Well, hopefully I'll do a little better than that once we're settled into Phoenix. I wanted to write and thank all of you: friends, families, loved ones--for your help. Not just with moving and packing and stuff, but with LIFE! Thank you. It is going to be so hard for Becca and I not to see you all constantly. We will try to stay in touch with you all, please try and do the same.

I also feel the necessity to comment on how silly it is that my blog lists the time of the posts of my entries and related comments, but not the date. How useless is that?

Please pray for Gary, Susan, Becca & I to have a safe trip across the country to Phoenix, and that I get this job at the seminary, and that everything else falls into place as well. We're leaving behind so many loved ones, and really everything and everyone we have known for these past 7 or so years. It's terrifying, there's a kind of surrealness about it that is so intense that it makes me use the word surreal even though I'm not entirely sure if I'm spelling it correctly. Becca & I are both feeling really calm about it, maybe it's shock, maybe it's just the peace of Christ which passes all understanding. Let's hope it's the latter.

Again, we will miss all of you, you are in our prayers and in our hearts. You really have become dear to us, and we've shared so much of life together with you that it's scary to think about living life apart from you all now.

Well, that's all for this six weeks. I'll write again mid-September. :)

Lee