We have arrived!

We have arrived in Texas! Wooohoooo!! Currently, Max and I are at my mom’s house in Poteet, Texas – the town where I grew up. We are gearing up to look for rental houses this weekend but at this current moment I am stationed on the recliner in the living room protecting my mom’s two wimpy dogs from Clementine. Bailey is her biggest fan and will not stop licking her vagina and Bridget is completely terrified – I just had to coax her out from under the chair by promising her complete protection from the big bad Clem.

ANYWAY – now for an update on what happened over the past week.

Friday was our last day in the Live Nation office. I was at work for approximately 3 hours. That night we had our going away / birthday bowling party. The night started at The Well, our faithful bar downstairs from work. Then we bowled the night away with a TON of friends/coworkers – it was a lot of fun and I was so happy at how many people came out. I can’t wait to see the pictures that Julie took!

The next day we packed up the U-Haul with a few friends and ate some delicious pizza from our favorite place, Palamero. YUM. And again, so happy to have a few friends willing to help us load that truck up. It made the day SO much better. Sunday was my 27th birthday and the day we left L.A. It was a fairly uneventful day…as expected I suppose. We stopped for an early dinner in a place called Blythe, CA and went to some random local diner instead of a fast food place. The waitress was so sweet and when she found out it was my birthday she put a candle on our carrot cake and made the 3 other people working there come out and sing. This was particularly sweet because we were the only people eating there at the time – the place was DEAD. It really made my day though so a big thanks to Courtesy Coffee Shop in Blythe. I have to say that in general though, my birthday was a total bust this year. Max and Tony both got me books and Julie made a really awesome picture collage thingie of Los Angeles. All wonderful gifts but guess what – that was IT this year. I didn’t get as much as a card from my mom, dad or sister/niece. RUDE! If it wasn’t for Facebook I have a feeling I would have gotten even less. Owell though, right? It’s not like 27 is all that important anyway.

We arrived in San Antonio on Tuesday night and as we finally exited I-10 (all the way from LA to SATX!) this song came on the radio that went “Is anybody going to San Antone?” Perfect timing! Wednesday we unloaded our belongings in to my dad’s storage unit and ate Mexican food TWICE in one day. We had a great late birthday dinner with my dad and stepmom and my dad made me a lemon birthday cake...which we were too full to eat. So, we ate it for breakfast on Thanksgiving and it was DELICIOUS. We followed up the birthday cake breakfast with THREE Thanksgiving meals. 11:30am at my stepmom’s sister’s house, 2pm at my Uncle’s house and 4pm at my mom’s. I was so full after each meal…and was in extreme discomfort at the end of the night.

Sarah (my niece) just woke up so now it is time to go. Below is a link to some pictures from the drive…they are taken from the iphone so not perfect but better than nothing! I loved the windmills in Eastern CA and again in the middle of nowhere West Texas. Clem made herself very comfortable around the car and was forced to pee in the designated “pet area” despite the fact that we were in the middle of nowhere with empty land all around us. We found a stuffed jackalope in NM and mariachis sang in San Antone.

Drive to TX