Dingers Do Augusta | The Rest of the Trip

After day seven things got a little crazy.

I knew it was bound to happen. This trip was going way too well. No traffic, clear skies, no fights, great sleeps, and then the night of day seven happened. It all started when the crazy storm rolled through. You see, we Armendingers haven't seen a real storm in a good two years. It rains in California but nothing like those crazy southern storms. And that is exactly what we got that night. Rain. Lots of it. Lighting and thunder. And the wind. Oh how I forgot about the wind. It basically kept #jayceleebriat and I up all night long. I am just not used to it any more. It finally quit around 4am but by then it was too late for a good nights rest. I got some sleeps, but no where near what I needed.

Then on or drive to Oklahoma City I called the hotel we had reservations at to see if we could check in early. Of course you can ma'am -- oh have you had a chance to check out our pet policy? Yea. I mean I assumed everyone would charge us a bit extra for #cambrigirl. But something inside me told me to check it out on the website. So I did. SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS!!! They want to charge me 75 flippin dollars for my 21lb terrier mix?!? Oh hell now! Que the panic -- We are going to be in OKC in just under 2hrs. It's raining. And now I have to find a new hotel to stay at because of the Mister sees a $75 charge for the dog he will FLIP. So I went to work (( thanks Trip Advisor )) and started looking for another hotel. First two BOOKED. So then I really started to panic. I was dealing with trying to find a new hotel, rain, driving, and keeping the kiddos quite. I then decided this was not going to happen when I was driving. So I pulled over, the Mister got the kiddos lunch, and I found us a new hotel. I could breath again. But man oh man that was NOT a fun thing to go though.

And here I am. Sitting at SpringHill Suites in OKC. It was like this was where we were supposed to end up. Nice big room, tons of restaurants around, super quite, and they gave me free wine. It's like the near I NEEDED a glass after the stress I went through today. Super thankful for that! Today also made me realize I needed to go through and check the pet policy for the remaining hotels and found out the one tomorrow as going to charge $100. It's a lot easier to swallow when you are claim after a glass of wine and you have your laptop open ready to find a new place. Lesson learned for sure!!

The rest of the trip is basically a blur. We went to Little Rock and from there decided NOT to go to Virgina. So again it was scramble time to find hotels again going BACK the way we originally had planned. All this stress is NOT fun. Also, somewhere in Alabama my phone decided it had had enough and stopped charging, hence why this post has zero photos. I need to get my desktop from our movers and get my photos off my camera. I have reserved just enough battery life to do this.

So yea, we are here in Augusta (: We started our house hunt yesterday which ended in heartbreak as two homes that we fell in LOVE with got rented before we had a chance to even get our applications in. Rental homes go SO FAST here. And there really isn't much for rentals here. So we are regrouping and going back out today. We are so extremely thankful for our realtor that is helping us. We really would be lost and defeated without her.

So that (( in a nutshell )) is where we stand as of right now life is a crazy stressful beautiful thing and I am trying my very very best at finding the silver lining in all of this!