Sorry for the lame blog, been a bit hectic getting married and moving across the country in the same week. Anywho, the wedding was fabulous and everything went great. Thanks so much to my mum and dad and FIL & MIL for throwing us such a beautiful wedding!! Unfortunately I don't have one picture of my own to share with you, except this...
This is my wedding dress covered in blood. Somehow Christian sliced his finger (possibly on the zipper) and bled out on my dress. Nice work, Christian. No time for a honeymoon right now but we got a little mini-moon at the Four Seasons in Philly (thanks Mum & Dad!). Here was the view from our room onto Logan Square:
Some delicious chocolate covered strawberries they brought to us:
Once I get some pictures from the wedding I will post them. Moving right along...
It was great to spend some time with my nephews after the wedding, and Lauren brought the girls by on Monday so we could say goodbye.
On Tuesday Christian and I accompanied my mom, the boys, and Marti to Chick-fil-a. Ironically it was the Giesa's first Chick-fil-a meal and Christian and I's last Chick-fil-a meal for awhile (or so we thought- we saw a chick-fil-a when we went to visit a friend 25 min away in Littleton, CO, yay!).
I think Johnny and Dom enjoyed it...
On Wednesday Christian and I packed up our truck and hit the road to Denver.
Our poor parents are graciously storing all of our crap and our lovely new wedding gifts! Here is a little taste of what they have to deal with for the next year...
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning we packed up the truck and got ready to hit the road! Christian's friends dad was so kind to lend us a soft roof rack for the year which worked out great and allowed us to pack everything we needed to.
One of our biggest worries was traveling with our two beloved kitties Chicken and Stanley. I had a feeling Chicken would be OK since she is usually very good in the car- never makes a peep. I decided to buy this little dog tent for $7 at TJ Maxx and just throw it away when we got to Denver. I put up the tent at Christian's house on Tuesday afternoon and Stanley hopped in and made himself at home right away...
The tent worked out really well, except that it was flimsy and hard to carry when we had to bring them into the hotel, etc. On Wednesday morning we finished packing up the car, loaded the cats, and then had a few quick stops to make before truly heading to Denver. Ironically, we went to Denver, PA to visit with Christian's grandparents. We also stopped at his uncle's dental practice around the corner to say goodbye to Uncle Rick. Then our road trip officially started... Denver, PA to Denver, CO.
(Don't worry he is not behind the wheel in this second shot...)
I told Christian I wasn't coming back to PA until this was in place of our bike rack...
Juuust kidding.... sort of.
Our first stop was Terry and Shandra's house in Columbus, OH. We didn't get there until about 8:30pm. Terry and Shandra had a yummy dinner waiting for us, thanks guys! They were also very kind to allow our kitties to stay with them. Terry and Shandra have a new baby, Kealy. She was just adorable (and so was their home)! I wish we would have gotten to spend more time with them... but we got up early and hit the road for Kansas, City, MO (an 11 hour drive). On the previous day's drive to Columbus the cats were SO good, no problems at all! They slept most of the time.
So we were hoping for the best on our drive to MO. BUT Stanley got a little restless about an hour in and wanted out. I tried sitting him on my lap (sorry mom):
He was fine for a few minutes but then got restless there, too. SO, it was time for drugs. We pulled into a rest stop and busted out the goods: Children's benadryl. We gave him a smaller dose, which he immediately snarfed all over me (I don't think he cared for the bubble gum flavor). We put him back in the tent and within a half an hour he was calm and was great the rest of the day. They were pretty cute- Stanley and Chicken spooned most of the way. The drive was pretty boring. Nothing to write home about.
We saw A LOT of this....
When we got to Kansas city we got settled in our hotel room and set up shop for the kitties. The hotel was great about us having the cats with us and didn't charge us extra or anything. I did a bit of school work (the last thing I wanted to do after an 11 hour drive) and then we showered and headed out for some Kansas City BBQ.
We didn't have time to do a ton of research but this place was walking distance from our hotel and got good reviews. It was a LOT of food, and we took at least half of it home with us, but it waaaaas yummy!
We just asked the waitress to bring us a variety of stuff. We got baked beans, cole slaw and cheesy corn (mmmm) as our sides. We were both PAINFULLY full when we left and could barely walk back to the hotel. In the morning we decided to drug Stanley right away to save ourselves the trouble of having to stop to drug him. He was lucky enough this time to wash down his bubble gum Benadryl with some delicious Kansas City BBQ!
Next we were off to Denver! Yay. My brother wasn't kidding when he said it would be the most boring drive EVER! Check out our radio scanning for some music (it did this for about 10 minutes until we just turned it off and plugged in the ipod:
We stopped for some DQ:
Stanley has some ice cream on his face.... Then mooooore driving...
I thought it was pretty funny the town between Kansas and Colorado is called Kanorado :)
FINALLY, we made it to beautiful (colorful I should say...) Colorado:
We still had a ways to go to reach Denevr.
We were getting quite anxious to see our house at this point.... stay tuned for the next post: Our New Digs!
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