Relocation ramblings, episode 2

the journey continues:

• it is possible to get the center gum part of a Blow Pop without biting into the candy part. It took me an hour. And much ignoring of the temptation to 'just get it over with' as the kids kept insisting.
• the Forest Gump soundtrack remains awesome
• Jimmy Buffet is not so awesome in the kids' minds, parrot-heads they are not!
• the world is SMALL when you can run into Irvine MTV friends while eating in Deming, NM
• over our 1500 mile trek, we managed to get 40 states in the license plate game - Alaska and Maine included, but Rhode Island and Vermont remain missing
• hotel living isn't horrible
• $3.50 per load of laundry using the hotel machines is horrible
• Collin did a great job with the final selection of the house - it is spacious, in a great area, and the view is spectacular :) I would share video if I could figure out how to upload it
• I feel lost all the time; sort of like I'm on the Amazing Race without the crazy challenges
• there is lots of amazing shopping close by
• there are some buffalo within in a couple of miles of my house too
• I wasn't prepared for th 48* rainy weather we had today. It's April. I am only armed with a sweatshirt. Looks like I need to watch the weather.