Day 5, The Final Day, Wednesday, October 1, 2008

We love Omaha. The city is beautiful, the people diverse and we just fell in love with it. Not that I ever want to live there.

We are heading 'home' on this leg, 440 miles to go.

In our typical exit, we planned on getting into a Starbucks. In our typical experience thus far, not so fast. There are no Starbucks between Omaha and Des Moines!!!!!!!! Seattle has a Starbucks on nearly all four corners of an intersection and here there is no Starbucks for over 107 miles. What the "F" man. So we starve way to Des Moines to find there are only TWO starbucks in this city!! I would have to move.

I have to hand it to the boys. Jayden hasn't had one outburst in the car the entire trip. Landon has been fine looking at himself in the mirror for five days now. Tony is permantely twisted from sitting sideways between the boys. I think they inherited my gene for car travel.

Each day as we passed into a new state I asked Tony to get a picture of the welcome sign. We have a picture of 'Welcome to Illinois'. I guess that's the most important one anyway.

We pulled into our new driveway around 6:30opm, said hello to one of our new neighbors and took the boys inside to 'meet' their new home. Tiger climbed out of her krate and proceeded to find a warm spot to lay down for a long nap...wow long transition for her. Jayden ran through the house saying 'Oh yeah, I like this guys'. He examined each room upstairs and settled on a room that is closer to Mommy and Daddy than Landon's room and Landon received the bigger of the options! Jayden will one day realize his error. Until our furniture arrives (a full week away) we are 'camping out' on air mattresses in the living room.

In some ways I'm glad the journey is over and at the same time I'm sad the journey is over. We had a lot of fun and good memories over the last five days and 2100 miles. There was not one argument, no raised voices, and endless laughter. Moving is not always fun and I don't want to do it again for some time but, when the time comes I hope we do it just the same as we did this time.