Our Super Duper Long Trip from Virginia to Florida

It was supposed to go like clock work.  Everything was in the POD on it's way down to Florida.  All we had were dishes, mattresses and enough clothes to get us through a week.

Our plan was to get the UHaul loaded up, finish the few repairs we had, steam clean the carpets and off we go:) 

The only picture that Chris got of our journey to Florida- he slept most of the way:)

Well, those who have read here long enough will know, with our luck, that plan was bound to fail.  Everything that could go wrong did.  I wanted to pull my hair out.  We were supposed to leave early afternoon and that would put us in Charlotte, NC early evening to have dinner and say our goodbye's to family.  We didn't actually pull out of our driveway in Virginia until 7:30pm- grrrrr.  Putting us at the hotel at 12:30am Tuesday morning.  I thought that was a long drive- I had no clue what was coming:)

Tuesday morning, we got up and ate breakfast.  Our plan for the day was to make it to Jacksonville, FL- 5 and a half hours away- no problem- right????  WRONG!!  We had no way to predict 2 car accidents.  It ended up taking us 8 long hours to get to Jacksonville.  I was very thankful that the little ones did so well in the van.  Thank goodness for Redbox and our DVD player in the van.  Little Michael wanted to watch Pokémon over and over.  I now have the theme song permanently rattling around in my brain:)  It took all my sanity over this 8 hour drive to find the nearest Redbox- any kids movie would do- just not Pokémon:)  We found out that Mike the Knight held both boys interest for a few hours- yay:)

We did a little happy dance in our seats when we saw the Welcome to Florida sign.  Exhaustedly, we pulled up to the hotel in Jacksonville, FL later than planned. We didn't eat dinner until almost 10pm that night.  Every one was so tired- all we wanted to do was sleep.  The cats on the other hand were trying to figure out where in the world they were and trying to plan an escape route.  Everytime someone went out the hotel room door, one of the cats tried to escape.  Lucky for them, we are faster :)

Wednesday morning, we got up and ate a fabulous breakfast.  We loaded up the van and off we went.  The last part of the trip.  According to MapQuest it was only supposed to take 5 hours to get to our new home.  The GPS, on the other hand, kindly corrected that time to 6 hours.  We also had to make a nice long detour, someone's tummy was not being very nice.  And for a chance, this time it wasn't mine.

It seemed to take forever to make the drive from Jacksonville to Cape Coral.  Our faces were so excited to finally pull up in our new driveway. 

We had finally made it.  To our new house at the beach- as little Michael would tell you we were moving to the new house at the beach:)  Even though the water is not as close as he would have liked to think:) 

We are loving our new house.  So how did we make out our first 2 weeks here??  Our adventures will continue next week............