Road Trip: Part II

Now, for the second part of our epic road trip!

After leaving Chicago, we headed to the homeland where we stayed a night with my parents in the cities and a night with Luke's parents in Wells. It was great to say one last goodbye, and load up on snacks, of course :) We hit the road early on Tuesday morning for our riveting ride through South Dakota. The one funny thing about South Dakota is that our friend Patrick's family owns Wall Drug. So, we made it a destination! 

I mean really, how many Wall Drug signs are there?

That night we made it all the way to Billings. The next day we took to the road again and made it to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho by early afternoon. 

Gotta love those mountains!

We spent some time exploring the town and treated ourselves to a nice dinner. It was funny because that was our first stop where we could really tell we were back in the Pacific Northwest by looking at all the people... and all the vegetarian restaurants!

A view of the lake...

Somebody's happy to be out of the car :)

Luke riding a moose!

Me and a very dirty Jeep! 

On Thursday, we headed for Seattle! 

 Even Eastern Washington can be pretty...

And there is nothing like coming through the Snoqualmie Mountain pass after hours of Eastern Washington. 

All in all, our trip was fabulous. We had great weather and made really good time. 

We are getting better at the whole road trip thing, I would say :)

After getting here, catching up with friends and apartment hunting like it was our job, we signed a lease and moved in to our place five (yes, FIVE) days later. And thanks to our amazing friends (Elise, Travis, Chris, and Nick) we had the whole truck unloaded and everything moved into our new apartment in an hour. It was awesome!!

The boys figuring out how to unload the motorcycle...

All of our stuff on the sidewalk in front of our building.

Now, we are pretty much all settled in and have even hosted a Superbowl Party! We still have some final decorating touches to do, but we are LOVING our new apartment and the location. We always talk about how our new neighborhood feels a lot like our old neighborhood in Chicago--with possibly even MORE restaurants within walking distance. Is that possible?!?

I'll get some apartment pictures up here soon!