Thompson Moving Update

Well, we made it to California last Saturday and the weather has been great! Driving out of the airport the first thing the kids noticed were the palm trees and then the fact that there were mountains. The kids have been playing outside in Grandma's yard with bare feet and loving every second of it. The kids and I are at my mom's house in Palm Desert which is right next door to Palm Springs. We lived in another neighboring city, La Quinta, before we moved to Virginia so I'm very familiar with everything here and have already run in to some old friends. Linda and Jane were both born in Palm Springs actually. (a shopping area in Palm Desert pictured above)
Like I said, we arrived on Saturday and from the airport we went straight to Oceanside where we had scheduled homes to look at. We looked at 5 or 6 homes, picked out top 2 and applied. We chose this one(pictured above) and it's ready to move in on January 4th! We work fast. :) It's nice and big inside and most importantly it has a backyard. Hooray! We've missed having a yard these past 2yrs. Even better is that the weather will permit us to play outside all year round. We're about 2miles from the beach and the Coaster which Robert will take to work.

Trip distance: 2692.884333.5 mi Time: 39 hrs 21 mins

Robert flew back to DC the day after we arrived here and worked all week. Tomorrow him and his dad will start their cross country trip from Washington, DC to California! We've missed Robert and it'll be nice when we're all together again.

So, there's a little of what has been going on...