moving right along...

Monday around noon came the caravan...eric, maria, and mike arrived safely...just in time to see a bit of tucson and help us move to flagstaff...we sent them out to see the sites while we packed up everything we own..i hope that that gets easier as time goes by, because it seems like things mulitply in our house...we didn't buy anything that would affect the space in the car, but somehow it was tighter than ever in there...
so weds, we headed out to flagstaff ( first we made sure that the kids went to the caves.) Wouldn't you know it...three months and it rained there 2 times, as we were leaving with our bikes in tow, it started pouring!!! so about 5 hours later we got to our hotel. It wasn't as bad as it could've been for what we paid...but let's just say i wouldn't recommend the Innsuites to anyone that likes clean sheets and blankets-GROSS!!!
We had dinner at the Beaver Street Brewery, which had great food and micro brews ( i'm not a beer person, but they weren't bad, and the bloody mary's were awesome!!)
We went to bed pretty early and woke up to a very chilly morning...I guess here is where i apologize to adriana for always being cold when she comes home to michigan-because it was hard to adjust to the cold!!
we moved into our place on thurday afternoon. third floor + a car full of our lives = one hell of a workout. My calves still hurt from running up and down!! Giant thanks to eric, mike and maria for giving us a hand...it would've really sucked without them here...
so we sent them off to see the grand canyon and we unpacked most of our goods, we did a little grocery shopping, then back home for pizza.
good thing we unpacked when we did, because it started snowing as they headed out to the canyon and has not stopped yet...i don't mind it, i guess i missed winter a little- the hot cocoa and snuggling and reading books ( because you can't rollerblade). But our place has a great gym-we checked it out today, so i am ok without the sunshine for a bit...and we live right at the edge of coconino nataional park, so we will be able to ride our bikes around the lakes there as soon as the snow stops!!! Here is a picture from route 66 which is the center of downtown Flagstaff...it is such a cute city, it seems like a mix of a small ski resort town ( lots of skiers and grand canyon visitors here), ann arbor ( it is a college town too) and a small town in germany ( there are cute little shops in small storefront). We don't start work until monday, but i love it already!!