2 Days, 2015 Miles, 6 States, & the Surprise of a Lifetime

So, we never ever ever figured we'd drive the distance from NOLA to Idaho since it was sooooo far. But as the holidays approached and we got looking at when we would possibly be going for a visit, we realized now might be the only time for a long time that we could go. So, somewhat last minute, we decided to pack up the car and surprise our families over the holiday. We left our house at 5 am on Saturday and made it to Amarillo, Texas and spent that night there and hit the road again at 4:30 am Sunday morning and rolled into Garrett's parents' house at about 11:00 pm. And we've been going around surprising everyone since then. And I think it's safe to say that it's been a pretty huge surprise since no one ever in their wildest dreams expected us to do this.

So we are spending some time getting in some winter fun. Garrett will fly back home and work for a week and a half and then fly back to Idaho to help drive us home. So, that's what we're up to. We are still trying to recover from the insanely long ride in the car, but we were really blessed to have pretty decent roads the majority of the trip and the kids did better than we expected in the car. But I'm still not totally looking forward to hopping in the car and doing that drive again!