{Our Road Trip to VIRGINIA}

Well after Utah we had a great time taking a road trip to our new home... {Alexandria, Virginia}.  I would have to say that I was not too excited for 36 hours of driving... but it honestly was one of the most fun things we've done! So we left early on a Sunday morning and started driving to ASPEN where we would spend our 5 year anniversary!

So this was actually in our moving truck a few weeks before, but I had to post it because he is just so cute...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Oh my gosh we loved Aspen. It's like Park City on steroids... and it is seriously one of my most favorite places now. Jeff was cute and surprised me with a fun, cozy hotel with a hot tub and pool (because that is seriously all I care about). It had a fireplace and everything. We relaxed and watched the playoffs. Then we walked along the fun streets that night to try and find a fun restaurant, but unfortunately they all closed early! So we did our favorite thing... ordered pizza and took hot tub, hot and bubbly. It was soo nice! I can't even tell you how much I had been craving a hot tub in NYC. Jeff of course surprised me again with breakfast in bed in the morning with an anniversary gift! He always goes above and beyond.

We slept in, took another hot tub in the morning and went and explored beautiful ASPeN... had a great lunch at a Mexican restaurant!

Aspen has such fun shops, cobble stone streets, restaurants, ski resorts, cozy motels... it was so cool to see. 

After lunch we then ventured off to our next destination... pretty much just driving until we got tired! We went through this beautiful canyon where we stopped and enjoyed the scenery. 

So good to be up in the canyon again! 

Our first night we stayed in Kansas. We kept driving and we were going through DENVER like around 6:00 p.m. trying to get the game on the radio when we thought... we are in Denver... the game starts in an hour... let's try and get tickets! So we went and tried to scalp tickets for the big playoff game but of course they were a little too pricy... so we kept driving. 

Our next stop was St. Louis! 

On our way to Pittsburgh, we stopped in INDIANA. This was a pretty state I'll tell you what! We loved getting lunch and eating it by the fun middle square. 

We then made it to {Alexandria, Virginia}! We were able to move our stuff in pretty fast! it's not hard when you are moving a 500 square ft apt!  Here we are eating our first meal in our new apt. We absolutely LOVE the area. We have beautiful vintage streets and neighborhoods (including Old Town) but then fun new developments with big movie theatres and restaurants.  So much to explore! All of the roads are confusing but hopefully we'll get use to it. i can't even tell you how happy I was putting my groceries in my car and drive home! ( I know Mel is going to kill me when I post this). I have a Target down the street and I am loving life. But aside from that we are so excited to start a fun new life here. Even though we don't know how long we'll be here... we still love it! We both started work last week and so far its going great. Well i'll be honest- its hard to go back to work all day but I am hoping we can get back into the groove of things. Jeff is loving his internship and loving working in Development. We hope to stay but I guess we'll go wherever his next job takes us! we're excited =)