Driving Home

Alright, so I am super behind with writing blog posts, so I will have to add in pictures later once I am caught up on writing. So Torry's internship had to end sometime, so knew the dreaded drive home was approaching. This time we were much more excited because we knew we could take our time and spend time with some family on the way back. We ended up driving home in a weeks time instead of four days, which makes a huge difference when it comes to a 15 month old. Although we were excited to go home, we knew we would have to say our dreaded goodbyes to Torry's aunt and uncle. We had gotten super close to over the summer, and were not looking forward to living life without them. It was great to be able to get to know them better, and now we feel as though we have another set of parents and Paige has more grandparents to love. Although we had to say goodbye, we love them so much now and are grateful for the summer we spent with them!
We started heading out with a more optimistic outlook then last drive. One thing that was the most difficult on the way up was that we had no air conditioning. With humidity and heat, the car was approx. 95 degrees the whole trip. Not only that, but with having all of our stuff in the car, we were super squished in which didn't help the heat.This time we decided to try something to cool it down. We left at 3:00 AM every time so that we could beat the heat.

Not only that, but Torry's uncle and I created a make-shift air conditioner out of a Styrofoam cooler, PVC pipe, a car fan and ice. It sounds weird, but when you are in a 95 degree car for 33 hours, you need something! It worked really well, but on the second day of the trip the fan overheated (I know, right?) But we purchased a new fan, set it up and all worked well.

We spent the first day in Richmond, Indiana. It was the halfway point between Springfield and Kansas City. Since we left so early in the morning we were able to have some time once we got to the hotel to go swimming and get some food. It was nice to be done driving by one thirty in the afternoon. After much needed relaxing we started day two heading to Kansas City to visit Caetie. It was great to have a family stop, and we loved spending the last nights of summer vacation with them before the kids had to go to school. We "played" (or a better way to put it we were creamed!) at video games, went to awesome restaurants, and even went to a huge indoor jungle gym that I think Torry had way too much fun on as an adult. ;-) We loved spending a day with them and are hoping we can do it again soon!
After a fun day and a half with them we started our trek to Colorado Spring, Colorado to spend a few days with Torry's dad and step mom. After looking at houses, a double date with Aubrey and Ruben, and Paige getting quality time with cousins, the trip went by way to fast! We were all of a sudden at the last night of our trip having dinner with the whole family not wanting to leave. Sadly enough, we still had to so packed up our stuff and headed on our last leg which was back to Logan. After a long drive we made it and it seemed so odd when we got back to our apartment. It was as if the whole amazing summer was some sort of dream. We loved it so much and are so grateful for the chance we had to get an internship in DC. Now we just have to finish the last two classes of our master's and by December we will have a new career and ending up somewhere new!