A Very Long Drive

The drive from Arizona to Oklahoma is hundreds of miles, and when you're in a moving truck with a car in tow it takes a good 18 hours. While the interior of the truck was fairly comfortable it was still a really boring, cramping drive, but we saw some interesting things here and there.
You basically take three or four highways to get there, and the first part of the trip is the more exciting half. We stopped every few hours, give or take, for food and bathroom breaks. We drove through Flagstaff saw the snow and pretty trees, drank lots of coffee and consumed lots of sugar, and pushed our awakeness until we got to our halfway mark: Albuquerque.
It took some time to find a place to stay. We didn't know exactly where we were going to stay, since we didn't know when we'd get into town, and therefore did not make reservations anywhere. We were tired and hungry and downtown Albuquerque was confusing as fuck; much like Tuscon's downtown area it was littered with one way streets and wandering pedestrians. In a giant moving truck we couldn't just park anywhere, and turning around was serious business.
But we finally found this adorable south western bed and breakfast called Casas de Sueno (houses of sleep). Turns out it was made of casitas: small separate houses complete with living rooms and kitchens. It was cute and cozy and the best accident all trip. We wanted to stay longer. The food was fresh, there was a "neighborhood" cat and everyone was friendly.
We had some trouble finding dinner, however. By the time we got settled in to this place, it was late and most places were closed. We took a chilly walk back to the crazy downtown area and found a very satisfying pizza place with decent calzones, but not before dodging lots of late night people who were surrounding a random club blasting terrible music.
The roads got really boring after that. New Mexico has lots of pretty mountains and there was more snow there, but once we got into Texas things started getting very flat. 
We stopped a lot of gas stations and odd middle-of-nowhere places. At one point we were in desperate need of something a little more entertaining and stopped at a Toys R Us...because we're giant children like that. That's where we bought our Kinect.
The arrival was pretty rough. We got there late after driving in and out of a very scary red neck looking town and finally to our town, and realized in all the wedding/packing craziness the utilities weren't on and ready for us. We got some flashlights and some people to help us unload, and ended up crashing at the Stockmans' apartment for the next few days, and then the Vaghari's after that. It was funny, because there was a power outage on New Years anyway, so even if we had been able to be at home we still would've lost our lights.

It looked like this for quite a while.

So I got a crash course intro to the town and some of the people Michael knows those few days, which wasn't bad, but could've been better. I think I just don't know what to do with myself around this many new people. The main activity is getting together and drinking on the weekends; since I haven't seen any big interesting things to do around here it makes sense.
Getting here was definitely really stressful and overwhelming, which could be why I've essentially curled up into a ball and hardly left the house now that we're more comfortable. I honestly thought something terrible would happen on the drive here, but aside from some serious crankiness we weren't pulled over and we didn't crash, so...that's fantastic.
Unfortunately after all of that we were basically broke by Michael's 21st birthday, and so we didn't do much, but went to a party the next weekend for his friends' birthday (since winter is the season of birthdays apparently). He has yet to go to a bar or anything like that, but I enjoy sending him to the store for the occasional bottle of wine or six pack of whatever.
There are still a few piles of things here and there like I mentioned before; we're not quite finished. But it's great having our own kitchen and space. It's terribly quiet sometimes, though. Sometimes we expect to be greeted by lots of dogs or people already there like in Arizona. I want a puppy so so bad but we have to get used to this and make sure we can take care of it first.
It's way past my bed time! Having the internet back tonight has sucked out my soul and I need to sleep it off. I'll more than likely be writing more tomorrow.