The Many Adventures of Pawlak and Friends : Getting out of OKC

I'm finally back!!!

Life has been busy busy busy these past couple of months. Packing up the OKC house and getting everything done with wrapping things up in Oklahoma before we left. But of course leaving Oklahoma in May come with the start of tornado season. We had movers at the house packing while tornado sirens were going off.... no big deal. We also decided to go off base to get some dinner one night since it was really late and we didn't have any energy to cook. We were then unable to return to base for a while since there were still sirens going off and there was a flood warning. When we were finally let back on we couldn't get to either our hotel room or the old house because of the flooding on base. We continued to get rain and the base would keep flooding every time it would rain again.

(water covering the street and coming up the side walk)
Sooooo after all that fun stuff including having to repaint two of our bedrooms, having the stomach bug, and having to pay to have our house cleaned twice we started our journey to Texas and then Connecticut. But of course we couldn't leave Oklahoma without having some of the best BBQ one last time!

We had a fun time in Dallas. Tyler loved the pool they have and we stayed at the same hotel we had stayed at before he was born. Of course we enjoyed in n out burger and a trip to ikea before it was time to head out. We ended up getting to the airpot an hour and a half early for our flight. That proved to be NOT ENOUGH TIME!!!! We pulled up and saw luggage check at the curb and thought oh this is perfect and we won't have to lug all our baggage around. Tyler and I could check in and go through security and Nicholas could go and return the rental car quick and then come check in shortly after. Yea that plan quickly went out the window. When we asked that guy if he could check our bags there he told us he wouldn't do free baggage and that you have to pay for the bags. We would have to some how bring all 6 suitcases, 3 carry ons, a carseat, and a toddler up to the second floor. On top of that we still had a rental car to return and its not a right there return. You have to drive it to the place and take the shuttle back. Well needless to say all this stuff took way too long and we ended up missing our flight and had to change our plans. We ended up going to Houston for the night and ended up getting to CT a day later than we planned.

(The huge amount of luggage that was way too much for two people to carry)

We had a great week of visiting friends and family and didn't make anything to stressful we just relaxed and had a good time.