Laundry Woes

Living without our appliances has proven the most painful when we need to do laundry. Taking dirty clothes from five people to a laundromat is difficult, adding three kids to the mix made it painful. Since I'm new to the area I just drove around the city until I found a laundromat to stop at. Once I got there I realized I didn't have the soap in my van, that it must be in our other car. Remember we're living in a hotel at this point, so all of our stuff was in our two cars or in storage. So I had to buy soap at the laundromat, using some of my precious quarters, so I only had enough money to wash two loads. I spent most of my sanity trying to keep my three girls from running circles around the machines bothering the other patrons.

A couple of days later I was smart and visited the bank first and brought a whole roll of quarters to the laundromat. I also made sure to have our soap in my car. I started the laundry and tried to keep the girls interested in the library books I had brought with me. When I went to move the clothes into the dryers I found that they didn't take quarters! They only took a card that you had to buy from a machine there. I found the machine but it didn't take quarters! Only bills! I was at a laundromat with dozens of quarters and couldn't dry my clothes! I had to load my heavy wet laundry back into the car with my three girls and find another laundromat to dry my clothes.

I will be happy to have my own machines back in my residence.

In love with swinging

Abigail has decided she loves swinging. She has a big grin on her face the whole time she is in the swing.

Frogs

We ate lunch at the Albuquerque Aquarium (say that 10 times fast!) They have a big pond in the front with fish and frogs in it. There are also several bees which eventually chased us away.

Happy girls in the car

I'm Proud

I did this, it's the first time I've done it. Although, I'll have to admit, I did follow some directions I found online.

Our drive

It was a beautiful drive in between Mesa and Albuquerque. One of the nicest part about it was once we were in the mountains we could roll down the windows and enjoy the cooler temperature. There was several construction sites and Eve and I were waving to the workers as we jammed to our music with the windows down.








The last couple pictures are at the last rest stop in Arizona, it's on a reservation, the stuff on the cliffs are statues of animals, not real ones.

Leaving Phoenix

I loved parts of living in Mesa, especially our wonderful friends. Here is a picture of some of them at a goodbye party they threw for us. We've only been gone two weeks, but I want to go back and visit.


Another wonderful part that we'll miss is the great teachers the girl's had.

Every one say "Bye, house"

We're almost done packing, and we better be since the moving truck is coming tomorrow morning. I think the hardest thing to pack so far was our pictures. After they came down our home doesn't look like ours any more. I'm walking around feeling sad, I don't really want to leave. Going to the unknown is a little daunting, we really did have it good in AZ.