Road Trip

This year Ranz and I decided to take a much deserved vacation... and long overdue honeymoon.  This was our very first trip without the kids and to make it interesting we decided to start it off with a road trip (the overpriced March break airline ticket cost also helped with that decision... $900 bucks each round trip to Florida... forget that!).

How long is a road trip from Ottawa to Florida you might ask?!  26 hours give or take...  the trip down was definitely GIVE.

We started our road trip adventure on a Thursday night... around 5pm.

Our before selfie... 5:11pm Thursday

A road trip might sound fun and adventurous but in actuality it's really not... so here's a brief summery of our drive...

We decided to play Russian roulette radio to see what tunes each city radio station had to offer.  Here's the list before I crashed out on Ranz (I did that a lot to him!).

All Star

I Touch Myself

Can't Fight This Feeling 

I Would Do Anything For Love

It's My Life

Mysterious Ways

That's All

I Want Rock and Roll

What If God Was One Of Us

Big Girls Don't Cry

Free Falling

She's A Killer

Go Your Own Way

Flying High Again

Runaway Train

... This is where I get super sleepy and forget to finish our road trip playlist :(

What else do you do in a car to kill time...

Take numerous State stop selfies

A quick manicure... I think I did pretty good considering the sharp turns and all!

US Gas prices rock!!!  $150 all the way to Florida!

This is me attempting to take pics of anything interesting along the way... 

This is Daryl... He's ready to help us fight zombies when that day comes... oh and it's coming!

We arrived at our destination at 12 midnight... 30 hours... we did however stop for 4 hours midway.

And the way back...not so fun.  

Goodbye palm trees :'(

Hello... Mexico?! 

Our cruise ported Saturday... we left Florida around 12:30 pm.  I had to be back to work Monday morning so it was a quick trip North to say the least.  To top it off, Ranz wasn't feeling the greatest so I did most of the driving and I definitely needed the rest of the week to recuperate... so exhausting!  We made it home in 25 hours!!!

Ranz

I haven't blogged in quite a while.  Not because I have nothing to blog about.  Simply because where does the time go?  Finding time to sit down with my laptop is proving to be a challenge these days.

Today I'm making time...

This post is dedicated to my loving husband who has made one of the biggest sacrifices I can imagine... and that is moving to the coldest place on earth!!!  Well, it sure feels like it lately.

On January 29th Ranz flew into Ogdensburg NY...on a Cessna... and got to fly up front for a bit.  How fun :) 

World's smallest International Airport... OGS NY... you blink you miss it... and we did lol

This is 'not' your captain speaking

We decided on Ogdensburg because you can't beat the ticket prices and the hour drive across the border to pick him up was a breeze... driving Ranz into Canada now that was a different story.  

We were asked to pull over and come inside.  Even with the time it took to look over all our immigration papers, the endless questions and our sleepy toddler to deal with, it was still well worth it... Ranz was given a year visitors visa!  

Ranz is now with me permanently!!  I'm not letting him go back without me anymore.  We've lived apart for too long to ever consider it again.  Are times tight without him working?!... yes!! But that really doesn't bother me so much... I would live in a cardboard box if it meant having him with me forever!

So we wait... for Imigration Canada to process his paperwork.  What is he doing in the meantime?!  Freezing... that's what!!  Leave it to Canada to dish out one of the coldest winters we've ever had during his whole process.  Poor Ranz everyone says... lol

Here's some fun stuff we've done since his arrival, to try to make the best of the cold...

Jace getting some skating lessons

Cold enough?!

Rideau Canal

Family selfie time!

Visit to Thailand on our long weekend...ok maybe not... looks convincing tho ;)

These were taken at IKEA... they're oversized wall art... kodak moments are awesome!!

Thanks bu for moving to my little frozen part of the world... I can't say you don't love me... you have definitely proven it!!  Love you! xoxox