Lets see, can I remember where it all started? Hmm.

A while back a friend of Robert's and mine, Chris, asked us if we could help him move to New York. This entailed packing up his apartment, driving over to New York in the moving truck with him, unloading the truck at the new apartment in NY and then flying home the next day.

Nothing too hard, right? A nice 16-20 hour drive depending on breaks, next day unload, next day fly home. Simple.

Robert also chronicled the trip from his perspective here.

Okay, so here's how it really went. Friday we started helping pack up, we got almost everything done that night, before Robert and I stopped over at Adriane's Boyfriend Mark's house for a party they were throwing for him before he gets shipped back off to Iraq. It was a fun time, I had a blast, Robert was the pimp as usual. ;)

Saturday morning we got everything else packed up on the truck (which had only two seats, never seen a moving truck with bucket seats before) and hit the road. Now we didn't leave when we originally planned to, we ended up leaving a couple hours later, but no biggie. Oh and I had to sit in the middle on a wooden kitchen chair, that was fun.

The first three hours were great, we had a blast, fun times. Once we got into Columbus we had to refill the gas tank, so we also stopped by mom's for a bit of a break and lunch. We ended up staying there for about two hours, I finished changing the water filters in the basement, Robert and Chris took a nap.

Once we were ready to go, mom and I did our annual Christmas tree trip tradition (she had gotten a tree that morning by herself since I couldn't be there) and sang the Twelve Days of Christmas Muppets version. Then we set out again and headed to Chris's grandparents' house in Pennsylvania. Again, everything going well, fun times.

We got to his grandparents' house, had a very nice home cooked meal, it was great, reminded me of having dinner at Annie's grandma's. His grandparents were very nice people, but I think he's too hard on them sometimes, I don't know. We got to watch a couple football games, that by the end of them had managed to completely fuck up the entire BCS standings.

After we left Chris's grandparents' Chris drove for a bit longer but was obviously starting to fall asleep, so I took over driving from there. I drove for a couple hours before we had to stop and get gas again, and then it happened. Turning into the gas station/truck stop I clipped the curb and gashed the back right tire. So we waited four hours for someone to come and replace the tire, luckily it didn't end up costing anything. Robert also made mention of this here.

At this point it's about 6:00 AM, about 21 hours after we first left Indianapolis. Chris once again drove for a short time, but he fell sleep twice and almost went off the road one of those times, so I made him stop and I drove the entire rest of the way through PA, also at this point I'm the only one of the three that hasn't slept. Four hours later, we make it to NY, we get Chris's car from the airport, stop at the gas station and got some food. Then, THEN, we finally got to Chris's new apartment, hot damn!

We unloaded a few boxes and some random shit from the truck and then we all laid down and took a nap. After not having slept since about 7 AM the day before, I was out! About five hours later we ate some pizza and continued unloading the truck, until it started to freezing rain, so we had to stop, yet another set back. We got most of the big stuff out before we had to stop though, so it wasn't all bad. That night we all slept on the floors and in the morning we finished unloading the truck and then took it back, then heading back to the apartment to change and head to the airport. Long story short we couldn't take the flight because we didn't have nice enough shoes to be "Business Casual" for the dress code they have for buddy passes. So we stayed at Chris's one more night. We ended up going out to dinner with a couple girls that work with Chris because one of them thought Robert was cute. Unfortunately Robert was having a hard time so nothing really worked out so we just went back to the apartment and crashed.

Enter Tuesday morning, we got up at 4:30 AM to make our new flight, we had bought new shoes Monday night on the way home, and got over to the airport. The plane took off at 6 AM, stopped at Atlanta for an hour then left for Indy. We actually ended up getting in a little early, so that was nice. On the first flight we got to sit up in first class, or "Business Class" whatever the hell they want to call it to be politically correct or some bullshit. Got to see Robert's first time on a plane, he particularly "enjoyed" the first landing, I guess he expected something a little more subtle? So now we're back in Indy. It was an interesting weekend, definitely something different and out of the norm.

I think that's about it for now. Ohio State vs. LSU in the National Championship game, should hopefully be a good one. Though honestly I don't believe LSU deserves to be there. I'd love to see OSU against Hawaii personally. There are significant parts of the story which I chose to omit, mainly in and around the dinner at Fridays, that I felt were just better left alone.
Oh well, that's all for now, fun times!