Look out on a green world
I have intarnets in Colorado!!
We have arrived and the computer is set up at Mom's place. :) We made it in about 12 hours, towards the end of which we were a bit insane but functional... barely. We only stopped for gas and to check on the babies while we got gas. The first stretch of the drive was *beautiful* and we saw a total of 4 rainbows guiding us northward. I took pics, and we'll see how many come out. :) It was a HUGE relief to be on the road. It's amazing what we could fit in our little toyota, and we didn't have any problems. I really felt for those poor boys from the moving company though. It was 115 degrees out there and even after giving/throwing SO much away we have a lot of crap. :P We thanked them muchly and watered them.
The animals traveled well, thoroughly traumatized but doing Ok now. The rabbits are just SO happy to be out of the carrier. The reptiles aren't at all thrilled, but the tubs are temporary. Just while we're here, they'll get their fanciness back laters. Gomez scared the hell out of us though, he tangled himself up in his pillowcase in such a way, tieing it into a knot and making us think he'd throttled himself with it! We had to cut him out of the pillowcase. He's fine now, but OMG WTF Gomez! From now on, big deli cup for him!! Mom's cat Zoe is also terrified of the rabbits, and thus far as spent most of her time hiding in Mom's room. Dana is our biggest worry, because she's stressed and doesn't seem to want to eat. But she didn't when we first got her too, just the change of environment stresses her out I think.
We basically feel like we're vacationing/visiting my family with the fur-scale kids. It doesn't feel at all real that we don't live in AZ anymore. The weather here is *gorgeous*, the water from the tap is actually *cold*, it's rained for us, the grass is soft and green, and it's awesome to see my folks. We're all just feeling really good and relaxed. It's all falling neatly into place, despite our panicking and moving stresses. :)
Needless to say (I imagine) I'm still really distracted and probably won't be posting as much as I usually do for a while. But we're safe, happy, and kinda just... wow. We resisted the idea of moving back to this conservative military town for so long, but it's so... peaceful. We're really more small town girls than big city girls. We still adore the idea of Portland, and maybe our whole little clan here will pick up and go there someday. But this is really nice. We're good.
We have arrived and the computer is set up at Mom's place. :) We made it in about 12 hours, towards the end of which we were a bit insane but functional... barely. We only stopped for gas and to check on the babies while we got gas. The first stretch of the drive was *beautiful* and we saw a total of 4 rainbows guiding us northward. I took pics, and we'll see how many come out. :) It was a HUGE relief to be on the road. It's amazing what we could fit in our little toyota, and we didn't have any problems. I really felt for those poor boys from the moving company though. It was 115 degrees out there and even after giving/throwing SO much away we have a lot of crap. :P We thanked them muchly and watered them.
The animals traveled well, thoroughly traumatized but doing Ok now. The rabbits are just SO happy to be out of the carrier. The reptiles aren't at all thrilled, but the tubs are temporary. Just while we're here, they'll get their fanciness back laters. Gomez scared the hell out of us though, he tangled himself up in his pillowcase in such a way, tieing it into a knot and making us think he'd throttled himself with it! We had to cut him out of the pillowcase. He's fine now, but OMG WTF Gomez! From now on, big deli cup for him!! Mom's cat Zoe is also terrified of the rabbits, and thus far as spent most of her time hiding in Mom's room. Dana is our biggest worry, because she's stressed and doesn't seem to want to eat. But she didn't when we first got her too, just the change of environment stresses her out I think.
We basically feel like we're vacationing/visiting my family with the fur-scale kids. It doesn't feel at all real that we don't live in AZ anymore. The weather here is *gorgeous*, the water from the tap is actually *cold*, it's rained for us, the grass is soft and green, and it's awesome to see my folks. We're all just feeling really good and relaxed. It's all falling neatly into place, despite our panicking and moving stresses. :)
Needless to say (I imagine) I'm still really distracted and probably won't be posting as much as I usually do for a while. But we're safe, happy, and kinda just... wow. We resisted the idea of moving back to this conservative military town for so long, but it's so... peaceful. We're really more small town girls than big city girls. We still adore the idea of Portland, and maybe our whole little clan here will pick up and go there someday. But this is really nice. We're good.