Hectic But Happy

Well we finally arrived in Rochester, MN on Friday June 15 and it's been a week of unpacking, moving stuff, setting stuff up (namely garbage, water, gas, cable, telephone, sewer, recycling, internet, etc.), and buying stuff that we've found ourselves deficient of: ie a dinner table and chairs.

The move itself was rather uneventful - except to the 6000 or so bugs that ended up dying against 5 tons of steel smashing them to smitherines - I thought I even got some small birds against the windshield although upon closer inspection they were bugs the size of small birds!

We stopped in North Platte (yeah if you don't know where that is I don't blame ya), Nebraska for a night on the way out - and for some reason the entire city was booked. It turned out Nebraskaland Days was going on - whatever that is. Other than that Nebraska really is a terribly boring state to drive through.

The drive was scenic, but not very interesting. When we arrived in Rochester it didn't really feel like that long of a drive despite it being about 18 hours total. I attribute the monotony of the scenery to lending that illusion. What did feel like a long trip was paying the credit card gasoline bills of our truck that did sub-10 mpg, and at about $3 a gallon and 1400 miles that added up to a pretty penny of ~$500 worth of gas. Ouch.

We're finally getting setup to some degree, although most of it will be temporary as we have a construction crew set to finish our basement for the next few weeks, so hooray to more clutter. At least when the gauntlet medical school schedule begins we'll have some more habitable space to live in... more on the gauntlet Mayo schedule in another post, let's just say - since when were schools allowed to schedule overnight stays, Sunday instruction, and 3 weeks of your life in 15-minute increments including bathroom breaks?!