After our single, separated lives peaked at the wedding, we loaded up Lacey’s life and our wedding gifts into a little 10-foot U-Haul and headed off to Washington. We took three days to drive the two thousand mile journey through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Of course there was no cd player so it was country music on the radio all the way 
good thing I’ve come around to country music.
Once we got home, we had a couple days to rest up and pack for our honeymoon. We opened a bunch of sweet wedding gifts, unloaded the U-Haul, received our marriage license, and even organized everything in the house!
A few weeks before the wedding I remembered that our flight to Maui was from Seattle, not Spokane, so I hastily searched for cheap flights to Seattle, but of course cheap didn’t work out.. so we decided to add another leg to our driving journey. (Is leg supposed to make sense? I think of a leg extending from a hub, not from an endpoint. Shane, help me out with this one). So, exactly a week after our wedding, we jumped in the car (at least not the U-Haul anymore) and drove to Seattle, while intensely listening to a book-on-tape called The Honeymoon by James Patterson.