The Trip to NC

Okay so I have to back up a little. My life has been so busy lately that I haven't had time to blog. I knew I had to pack for my move to Meg and Sonny's house but I wasn't getting anything accomplished so I ended up staying up late on Sunday night. I went to bed about midnite. Then I could not sleep. So at 1:30 am I got up, took my shower, finished the last minite packing and headed out. I figured that I would be driving the familiar parts of the route in the darkness and then be able to get to Meg's hopefully by dark. We mapquest the route and chose the shortest distance. I think it was supposed to be about 14 hours. Made sense to me (the first suspicion that something might be wrong).

I got to Ohio and was feeling soooo sleepy, not at all my usual reaction to the stay awake pills I take. No, usually they keep me awake with no side effects. Well, this time I was dead tired at least that is what I was afraid might happen if I didn't stop. And yes, as if by magic a super clean brand new beautiful rest area appeared. I stopped, my eyelids drooping, listening to the tunes on my ipod, I fell asleep. I woke up 20 minutes later feeling drained and exhausted. Duh! I was pretty fearful at this point that I wasn't going to make it. I decided to use the potty and as I opened the door my car starting dinging. I turned off the lights and headed to the bathroom. I sat in the stall and cried. How was I going to make it to Meg's? I still had so far to go. A thought popped into my head. If I could just keep the tears coming and cry my way there, that would keep me awake. Dumb, I know. Most people would stop and spend the night. Not me, not after I had decided to do this. I went back to the car and it wouldn't start. Luckily for me there was a man on each side of me that offered to help and I was back on the road again in just a few minutes.

Another thought came to me. I had packed two general conference sets of cd's in the car but hadn't played them for fear they would put me to sleep. Ironically, I decided to put them in. Well, as you may have guessed they did not put me to sleep. In fact they made me cry. You could say I cried all the way to Meg's house. At one point I had to choose whether or not to follow the mapquest and ended up taking three extra hours going up and down through the mountains. It was beautiful - but scary And the whole time I needed gas and I had to go to the bathroom. It was so wild. I tried to appreciate the scenery as best I could but I really just wanted to get there.

I got there in 17 1/2 hours. I kissed the ground, said thankful prayers for hours and was grateful for the knowledge that the Lord is so mindful of us even when we do the craziest things.