Journal #3

I was thinking about different blog topics and thought, i can write about when i moved from Florida to North Carolina. That was the most stressful move ever! I had already started seventh grade and even had a great boyfriend! The summer before my dad was working a lot up here and my mom even flew up here to "see" my dad. What we did not was that they were already looking at houses. When my dad came hoem one weekend he told us we were going up to North Carolina for a week to visit! I was like why?.... I was twelve years old and had my own opinion on things and understood a lot more, yet i didnt understand my parents at this time! When we arrived in North Carolina the next morning we went to "the shop" and met my dad's co-workers. Well one spilled and told my sister and I that we are going to love it up here! We were so confused, so we asked mom and dad what was going on and they told us they want my dad to transfer his job to up here. I was only twelve and did not really know what to think. But automatically Staci hated it,I didnt blame her. My mom took another visit up here without us to look for a house, I stayed with my grandma because my brother would not be home but then i had to go with my sister to her friends house because my grandma was going on vacation. The trip up here was stresfull, because it was early in the morning and very hot outside! we had 2 dogs with us and three cats, and every animal was very unhappy! The cats were in the back meowing and hissing at each other which was amusing. We were into Georgia and suddenly smoke starts flying from the trailers tire and my dad could not really see what was going on but my mom called and told him he need to pull over. So we did, and guess what, one of the tires blew out and we were standing there in the sun and heat along side of a busy highway not knowing if or how we are going to get it fixed. We called a UHAUL place and they told us an hour. We could not believe it, we were stranded in the middle of know where on a busy highway with everything we moved with! Finally someone arrived an hour later to fix our tire and get us back on the road. We were pulling into our driveway at midnight exactly, but i do remember my dad waking me up too see how pretty the lake was. I was so tired the next day, but was still anxious to start making friends because i was so tired of unpacking by the 3rd day!