Just another day in paradise...: A road trip with .... BANJOS?!?!!?

Well, we started our trip to GA on Monday around 11am, after we had cleaned and turned our apartment over to the management company. The trip started with very very cold weather and a little bit of freezing rain. I wasn't too worried, because I've traveled through a bit of inclement weather before. Most of Monday was spent trying to avoid black ice, chip off the ice from my windshield, and generally trying to stay sane while driving. The big boys and Eric were in the car behind me.... waaaaayyyy behind me. (Eric forgets the gas pedal is on the right LOL)

We made it to Little Rock, AR around 9pm... a bad time to get to any new place. However, in hind-sight, there is NEVER a good time to get to anywhere in Arkansas. We stayed at the "Rodeway" hotel/motel/creepytown just inside the end border of the city. When we walked in the night "manager" was having a conversation with, who I can only assume, was a long-term tenant of this beautiful hotel. This same tenant asked my sister-in-law to hook a necklace for him... um NOOOOO! EEEEWWW. We shut the boys in one room (which was so nasty I didn't want to take off my socks and actually touch the floor) and locked them in with threatening of death if they left the room. We all took the next room and it smelled like some animal had peed, pooped, and then wallowed in it for about 5 months in 100 degree heat. The beds were scary.... like you didn't want skin to touch the sheets. The bathroom.... um, ya, no one touched THAT toilet seat. To top it all off... we kept bracing for the sound of banjos....

Needless to say we survived our stay, got on the road very very early and drove straight to GA. The second day rained.... and rained... and rained.... so bad in most spots we were hydroplaning. But, the good Lord protected us and got us here safely. Now we just need a house....