This will be a short informational post. For those who don't already know, I have moved back to Utah. Amy, the kids, and I live in an apartment in South Provo a few blocks north of the mall.
I arrived March 3rd much to my wife's surprise. I pranked her good. Everytime we spoke while I was driving the 2,000 miles between Buffalo, NY and Provo, UT I would fib a little about my location by providing info about cities and places I had already passed. As an example, during the first day of driving I spoke to Amy around 8pm and told her I was between South Bend, IN and Chicago when I was really 50 miles past Chicago. Later I told her that I had stopped for the night in Quad Cities when I really stopped in Des Moines, IA (For the geographically challenged this is all along I-80).
This all added up over the two and a half days and was helped by real weather problems. I actually spent the second night in Rawlins, WY stopping due to dangerous high winds, but told Amy that I was still in Nebraska, and the next day I told her that the winds had caused the highway to be shut down and that I had to stop in Rawlins, WY for the night. However, I told her this while I was actually driving through Heber City, UT. I called her when I arrived but didn't tell her that I was here, I walked up and knocked on the door. She told me there was someone at the door (he he he), she answered it and saw me standing there. She burst into tears and gave me a big long hug. Some will probably think it was mean of me to do this, but Amy was happy with the surprise of an "early" arrival and not at all upset by the deception.
We took over someone's contract for this apt so it expires in August. We are looking for somewhere else because we don't really like this place for more than a temporary situation. I am hoping that we can find a good place in our old ward. Our current ward has like 500+ at Sacrament meeting so I feel like a name on a list instead of a person. Our old ward was much smaller and more closeknit among the longterm residents (which we were). We will see what happens.
