Day Three

So, today was the long 10 hour ride - well, maybe a bit longer than that. Maybe a lot longer than that - here's a little helpful hint if you're driving across country take the time zones into consideration. Which I did not. We gained an hour in Iowa and then gained another in Nebraska, but that certainly didn't make it feel any shorter.  On the upside we arrived here around 4pm even after driving about 700 some odd miles - the downside was everyone was toast and super not happy. But we are staying at the Best Western Plus Lodge in Sidney NE and it is beautiful! We got the dogs walked and settled, Bob was unpacked and left to explore the room, they are actually quite good about all of this. We have had a few issues, Molly gets in trouble for policing the entire hotel(she barks at whoever parks in front of her room so we have to keep the curtains closed), Reuben got hauled fast away before he could mark one of the fancy wood posts outside the door as his - the usual mayhem. 

We ordered pizza in last night, there are a lot of hotels here so there are a lot of delivery places. I booked our next place - another Best Western, the ones out here by the way are very fancy! We decided to break up the travel a little more and do an extra day - 10 hours is just too rough with the pets since we have to stop more frequently to walk and water them and I think it's just too stressful for everyone. I had thought we could do two more 10 hour days which would mean only one more overnight stay in a hotel - but the downside to that is we would be arriving to our new home in the early evening. The water and electric need to be turned on, we will have no food in the house - we've done that before and it is always an over the top disaster. So we will be doing two 8 hour and then will only have 4 hours left so we can be at the house midmorning Tuesday. 

And the other benefit is getting everyone used to the time zone change - we have one more hour change  to go and then we'll be a full three hours ahead of our Pennsylvania time. The dogs are having a hard time of it, this morning found Reuben whining next to me this morning at 3am. I patted the bed and he got up, then got back down and resumed crying. Because in his universe it is 5 am and past the time he goes out to pee - in his eyes he had been very patient with me. So I got up and rummaged in yesterday's day clothes in the dark, found leashes, the room card, shoes. Molly was all ready too! so out we went at 3am in Nebraska - since it was 3am that would be when they run the sprinkling system too which delighted the dogs, but not their owner. I had a bit of a scary moment when I came in not being able to remember our room number, 107?136? I had two sprinkler happy dogs, wearing yesterday's rumpled laundry and my hair was not stellar so the idea of walking down to the front desk.......119!! In we went, David had put Bob the Bolter in her pen, she was looking quite malevolent but I have no idea where she thinks she's going. Jerk. Oh, well, on to day 4!