Oh, Gustav!

Wade has successfully completed his first week of work. A month ago today we were starting on that geat adventure, moving to Louisiana. Has it really only been a month!? We decided we would mark the month anniversary by not driving today! :)

We did go to Shreveport yesterday, after watching the Gators win handedly over Hawaii...GO GATORS, and the traffic going north was thick. It was even thicker going north on our return trip last night. Guess people have learned from Katrina. It seems Gustav will hit New Orleans and then the eye will pass over Natchitoches. We looked for generators when we were in Shreveport, but there were none to be found at the places we looked. Since we've lost electricity 3 times since we've been here including the first night we were here, we feel like we will lose it again with the high winds. Our neighbor said they were without electricity for awhile after Katrina. I thought we were leaving Florida to get away from hurricanes! We had 13 trees planted last weekend, so Wade spent some time yesterday tieing some of them down.

The governor ordered several parishes to close schools through Wednesday, and ours is one. Glad for that longer weekend, but not looking forward to seeing where they decide to take our days from. The worst thing about sitting through this hurricane with the potential of no electricity is it won't be like those times in Gville. Jenn and Tim always hosted us when hurricanes came through since we didn't trust our mobile home and it was alwyas fun to be roughing it with friends!

Will try to post at the end of the week and let you know how our hurricane experience was. We miss you all and hope to see you soon!

We made it!

We drove straight through Thursday, July 31. We left Orlando about 11 am and had so much trouble with the kayaks as soon as we got on the interstate we thought we were going to have to leave them with friends in Gainesville. We figured it out and after taking 3 hours to get to Gainesville, the rest of our trip we made much better time. We arrived at our home about 3 AM Friday morning. Quite a wakeup call for Wade's folks at their hotel where they had the key, but they were happy to see us. It's great! Wade did GOOD! :) Wade's folks had already been here Thursday cleaning and lining drawers. They brought breakfast Friday morning and we got to work unpacking the truck when it arrived around noon. Thanks to Peggy (Wade's mom) who was unpacking boxes as we were bringing them in, the dining room hutch and kitchen were set up very quickly. Otherwise, I'm sure there'd still be boxes everywhere. My parents came this past weekend and my dad helpd us get a chain link fence around our backyard. We are so thankful for all of our parental help...don't know where we'd be without all of their help getting our house together!

I got a call Saturday, August 2 to set up an interview for that Monday morning. I interviewed and got a 4th grade position. I'll be teaching Reading/LA to my kids and another teacher's kids, and science to my kids. I had inservice and orientation stuff all last week. One more day of meetings today and kids come tomorrow! Again, thanks to Wade and his folks we got everything put into my room and unpacked last Monday afternoon and kinda set up so I didn't have to worry about that last week.

Rural Louisiana dial up is SLOW! :) I wanted to get a post out, and will try later to post a picture or 2. Wade might have to be in charge of picture posts once he gets into his office at school!