I am repenting of my lack of posts and will now finally tell you about our Albuquerque adventures. Tune in throughout the week for a multi-part series of posts!
After finally packing up the car and getting some lunch, we left Cougar land about 3pm May 26th and started towards the land of Sun. After a few stops to feed the hungry Harold we got to Montecello at about 9pm. We had already made a hotel reservation there and once we found the hotel we unpacked the things we needed for the night and tried to get some shut eye. Well, that was Mommy's plan, but Harold made sure to keep her up a while longer so he could play. After getting some sleep and the usual 2 feedings in the night, Harold decided he didn't have enough play time the day before and was wide awake at 5am. After playing with him for about an hour, he went back to sleep and Mommy got some breakfast while Daddy watched the snoozing boy. Once Mommy had eaten her fill she switched with Daddy and decided to take a nap while the little boy was still asleep. Getting enough sleep was important as the longer stretch of the trip was before us. At about 10:30am Mommy got up and ready to go and we were packed up and on the road by 11:00, just in time for check out.
We drove on, into Colorado and then on to New Mexico. We stopped a few times for food, both for the little boy and the big people, and made it to Brian's parent's house by 7pm. There we ate dinner and spent the night. The next morning we would start moving into our apartment.
After sleeping in as long as we could we finally headed over to the apartment. After taking a tour and going through all the paper work, we started to unpack the car. A couple of hours later Brian's parents brought over the things we had sent down with his mother when she visited us in May. Once everything was unloaded and piled in the living room we started sorting through it and unpacking the things we needed for the night. We spent most of the afternoon and early evening doing this until we realized we wouldn't be able to get things set up in time to sleep there that night. So we stayed the second night at Brian's parent's house and decided to finish unpacking the next day.
Well, we didn't finish the next day, or the next week. It takes a surprising amount of time to unpack things, even when you only brought a small portion of your belongings in the first place. Maybe it was because we only brought a portion of our belongings that it took so long as there were some rather obvious holes in what we needed (we had left all our furniture and needed some things like a bookcase for the books, a desk for the computer, etc.) The next three weeks found us figuring out what things we lacked, but needed (like chairs and such) and Brian's parents randomly showing up with things they found that they thought we could use. After about three weeks we had accumulated enough furniture to meet our needs--mostly from what Brian's parents had in storage or what they found at yard sales. At last we were settled into our apartment and we were beginning to settle into the flow of things here in Albuquerque.
