...I Moved to Colorado

I have all these fun and interesting stories to tell about Colorado so far but I feel like I should start at the beginning with the drive here. I suppose this saga starts out with Sunday dinner at Sean's house on April 25th. I mentioned that I was moving that next weekend and wanted someone to go with me seeing as I'd never made the drive before and it's a pretty long one. Sean, being the amazing friend he is, offered to go with me. He loves Denver and has quite a few friends here so he was really excited about coming. There were a few scheduling things we had to work around (he's just so high maintenance) but we finally got on the road Saturday afternoon.

Sean has been working for Jim Mathesons's reelection campaign for the past few months and they had a county convention in Helper, UT that Saturday night that he had to help with. So we left that afternoon and got to Helper around 5pm or so. Sean got busy helping and I got busy listening to the candidate speeches (sorry Sean- I really wasn't much help...). It was actually quite fascinating. After leaving Helper we headed to Sean's aunt's house to stay the night. She lived a couple hours away on the other side of a mountain so we decided to take a shortcut and go over the mountain instead of around it. Not good. The weather was disgusting. Imagine driving in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere while its blizzarding outside and you're ridiculously tired and haven't eaten in 10 hours. Awful. I've never come so close to having a panic attack. Sean would tell you it wasn't even that bad but he's lying. It totally was!

We finally made it to his aunt's house (me still shaking from the drive) and crashed. We woke up and headed out Sunday morning- the weather still wasn't great but the closer we got to Colorado, the better it got. The drive was pretty uneventful. Sean's a great road tripper and a really good sport. He drove a good portion of the way even though he couldn't really push the driver's seat back because I had too much crap behind it. If you know the height difference between us you know why this was probably horrible for him. But he was a champ and I'm soooo glad he came with me. The weather was less than fantastic again when we went through the Colorado mountains into Denver. We survived it ok though- it just reaffirmed to me why I bought that car in the first place. :)

One of Sean's friends lives near Colorado Springs so we stopped there Sunday night and had dinner with his family. They are incredible people and it was a lot of fun. On the way to dinner I noticed that my gas light had turned on. Now I don't get stressed super easily but that straight up stresses me out. I started freaking out a little (sorry again Sean) because we were, again, in the middle of nowhere at night. Sean will also tell you that this wasn't that big of a deal- but it was. This is still a point of contention between us. Driving around with a gas light on is no bueno. But it turned out ok this time. And I'm going to finish writing this as another post because this is getting ridiculously long.