Week In Review: February 15 - February 21

Here is this weeks Week In Review for February 15 - February 21, 2009.

Sunday: This morning we were up at 7 to get on the road again. Joe noticed a roach in our hotel room. Ewww, gross. We couldn't get out of there fast enough being sure to shake everything out. We were on the road by 8. We made good time to TN. We arrived in TN at about 3 p.m. (central time). We are staying in the same chain of hotel where we found the roach. Thankfully this one is much nicer and cleaner. We were very ready to tell them we will not be staying if the room has bugs. We are all very excited to be here though and looking forward to searching around for a place to live and work.

Monday: Woke up early and my eye quickly became red. Hmmm, that's not good. I wonder if there were any pets in the room before us. So we got dressed and went up to the front desk for breakfast and to ask about previous tenants in the room. Yes it was a pet room so they said they'd move us, but we'd have to wait until 12 after check outs. So we went back to the room and were not able to get onto the internet. We went out exploring and ended up staying out past 12. So switching rooms was a huge ordeal, but it's done and we like the room better. It's a nice part of the hotel it seems and it's quieter too. We hit the mall where we bought all the kids new shoes. Natalie won us $5 off the shoes by guessing how many dots on a pair of dice. Okay she had help from us. I can't believe how much the TN state tax is though. I guess I'm spoiled in CT with no tax on clothing. Even still 9% tax is a lot!!! Natalie had a headache so we came back to the room and ordered pizza for dinner in the room.

Tuesday: Went out to breakfast at Shoney's. It wasn't the greatest, but it filled us up for the day. We drove up to Clarksville to look around and do some job searching. It's nice up there. Headed back to the hotel and had dinner at A&W. CJ wasn't interested in eating. Got some shakes from Steak and Shake and came back to enjoy them in the room. Gotta love Steak and Shake shakes.

Wednesday: We got up a little later today. CJ started walking. Joe called some of the places he put applications in. We waited for them to call back and then decided to go check out some houses in Clarksville. So we went back up there. We liked one and ended up finding another one we liked in our driving around. So we called. We got in to see one of them and it looks like we are actually moving. The man who showed it to us really liked us and said he wanted to take a chance on us. So now we just have to find a job and we're good to go. That shouldn't be too difficult now that we'll have a residence. Things are falling into place. We then met Renee and her Special K's at O'Charleys for dinner. We had a very nice evening. Good food, good company. We headed back to the hotel and crashed from the very long day.

Thursday: I was up very early. While everyone slept I did some research on schools for the girls where we'll be moving to. I found out which school they would go to. Once everyone woke up I made a bunch of phone calls including to their new school so I could take a tour. We decided to have a fun day and drove down to Chattanooga. We went up Incline Mountain and then to the Chattanooga zoo. It was a very nice day and I'll have plenty of pictures to share of our adventures.

Friday: Time to head home. We were up by 6:30 and on the road by 8. We first went up to Clarksville to tour the girls school. It was very nice. Then we met with our future landlord to get all the paperwork before getting on the road. It was a long drive. You can read about what happened here.

Saturday: Finally made it home. Stopped off at the local pizza place to grab a pizza and came home. We are glad to be home and can't wait to sleep in our own beds.

Remember, be sure to check back next week for the pictures from our trip.

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