texas

we made it to texas without any hitches, hiccups, flareups, etc... the flight was broken up into two ~2hr chunks which made it very manageable - lots of reading and listening to music. our car is a fairly new chevy impala - the thing is the biggest car i've driven in a while! it feels solid and is a pretty good looking vehicle: i'm going to feel good driving a baby around in it. our hotel is also pretty good. no serious luxuries here, but the rooms are very clean and in great shape (think the place was very recently remodeled) and we have a seperate sitting area, frig, AC, etc... many things that will make living out of the room for 10-14days with an infant very manageable.

so, all we're waiting on now is word of the baby. i know thats all you faithful readers really care about anyways. we'll tweet as soon as we hear something. thanks for all of your prayers! they're working!

ps - we ate dinner at "whattaburger" and i was asked if i wanted to "whattasize" my meal. seriously.

okay tangent time - people in texas are really polite - NICE even. the guy at the enterprise counter reached over to shake my hand when he learned i was from seattle (he had lived there). there was another woman at the counter not helping customers and instead decided to engage us in polite conversation. these small things seem seriously huge to a seattleite. the guy at the front desk of our hotel couldn't be nicer, more polite, or more helpful. kryssa has already dropped the "if not for the heat, i could live in the south easily!" bomb once. tangent time over. i love texas.

i lied: one more thing. a big window decal at the whattaburger read "and one nation UNDER GOD indivisible". we're not in seattle anymore!