We Made It!

We're here in sunny Southern California.  We drove for 4 days with a one day stop in New Orleans going across 7 states.

We had to drive through 8 hours of Florida and went through

then hit

And stopped in New Orleans.  The whole drive was around 10 hours.

We grabbed some gumbo

And stayed the night there, then stayed the next day.  We stayed at the Wyndham and the beds were soooo comfortable.  We hit cafe du monde for beignets 

 

They were soooo good!  Then we hit Pat O'Briens for drinks

And had a great lunch at a place called oceanas.  

I had the oysters and he had a poboy.  After that we went and did a bit of shopping and walked downtown to mail some things we bought.

Then we went to the hotel bar for happy hour and I had another Bloody Mary and a margarita.  They were good but I liked the Bloody Mary at Pat O'Briens better.  Hubby had a couple of beers and tried some he had never had.

Then we grabbed some dinner and walked down bourbon.

We stayed another night then hit the road in the morning.

Before long we were in 

It took about 8 hours.  Our original plan was to drive to San Antonio and go to Seaworld.  Unfortunately they were closed because they were only open on weekends.  We had figured this out in New Orleans though so we didn't have any surprises.  We stayed the night there and went to Texas Roadhouse because hey it's in the name and it's one of my favorite chains.  Instead of Seaworld we just hit the road again and were planning on staying in El Paso.  But we got to

And kept going to

And stayed in Phoenix.  That was a looooong driving day.  I think we drove for like 15 hours.  We were meeting a friend for lunch there so we stayed the night and slept in a bit.  Then after lunch we took off again and 6 hours later we are in 

We got in last night, had some dinner and went to bed.

We've found a house today we love so cross your fingers please that we get it.  I would have a cross stitching room!  Next up we're working on finding a job for me so cross your fingers for me there too!

Lastly cross stitching!  I didn't get much done on the car ride because paradise was too small to see with the jostling.

This was my set up.  I didn't get a better pic but that's all I got done.  However I did make progress on swirling peacock.  Stitching in hand on a larger count white fabric with bigger holes helped.  I finished a column and the moon in the next column.

This is the last time you saw it.

This is now.  Sorry for the blurriness it's hard to get a good pic of this one and it was in the car ;)

The moon is all kreinik

As well as the gold on the peacock eyes. The blank spots are where beads will go. I love doing every stitch on this.  Alright I'm off to job hunt thanks for stopping in!

Here's some pretty road pictures for you and fraggle rock!

It's hard to see but it has fraggle rock graffitied on it lol