But we didn't miss the tiny apartment or Brad's hours at work. By the time it came to leave, we were all ready.
Fun side note: a month before his rotation ended, Brad broke his hand while rock climbing. Yeah. Not good. He had to wear a big cast up to his elbow. He booked an appointment with a hand specialist the morning we planned to start our drive back to Massachusetts. We were crossing our fingers that it was healing well.
The kids and I packed while Brad went to his appointment. He came back with no cast! It looked like it was healing great. Relief!
So, with our cars packed to the brim, we started our cross country trek.
We had to make the drive in 3 days. Ugh. Brad couldn't take any time off for travel and his graduation from residency was Friday, June 24. We left Tuesday, June 21, and planned 10 hour driving days with sleeping stops in Missouri and Pennsylvania.
It was such a long drive. Oh my goodness, it was long. Looking back, I can't believe we did it with two cars, three small kids, and me 12 weeks pregnant. It was a whirlwind.
Everything was going according to plan until Wednesday. Our path was taking us straight through some severe weather in Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio. Severe weather meaning tornados. Tornados?! I don't even know what to do if you're driving through a tornado. We prayed really hard that everything would be ok and that we'd miss the storms.
For most of the day we miraculously stayed ahead of the storms. Thinking the worst was behind us, we stopped outside of Indianapolis and ate a Little Ceasar's Hot 'n Ready pizza in a parking lot. Classy. We took out time and stretched our legs. The kids fell asleep when we got back in the car.
Our goal was to make it to Pennsylvania. Around 10:00pm it started raining. By 11:00 it was a downpour and we could see lightning in the distance. Then the wind started blowing like crazy and lightning was striking all around us. Brad's little car was having trouble with the rain. We had to stop.
We were somewhere in Ohio. The hotels were all full except a little Motel 6. It was not ideal, but we were grateful for a safe place to stop for the night.
The wind and rain pounded all night. In the morning some trees around the hotel were down. Crazy!
We decided to drive through New York since the storms were predicted to go through Pennsylvania. New York is annoying to drive through. It was a two lane road which was packed with traffic and every time you exited you had to pay a toll. So annoying.
That last day was the longest. My body was aching. Somehow, the kids were all doing amazing.
Around 7pm we passed into Massachusetts! Yay!
We arrived home after 11pm. Brad's parents had beaten us to our house (they'd come to attend Brad's graduation). Our house looked so big and clean and nice. And our bed had never felt so good!
Brad graduated from residency the next day. I couldn't have been more proud of him.
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