Texas sized move

Here are some pics of our new apartment, it's twice the size of our last place

We painted two of the walls a light olive green color, really makes it more like a home

We are finally settled down a bit, it was a crazy move. I don't think I will use U-Haul ever again. We picked up our truck on Saturday at some random place downtown, then we had to drive to the other side of town (Dallas is a big town by the way) to pick up the tow dolly for my truck. As we were driving away Joni about tore the roof off of the truck because a cockroach was crawling on my foot in the cab. Then when we pulled into Bryan three hours later, I noticed the guy didn't attach my trailer right, and the straps that hold down the wheels had come undone, I don't know how my truck didn't come off the trailer...I can't even imagine the disaster that could have caused. As we pulled up to our apartment there was no one there to open our apartment for us, and when we finally did get inside two hours later, we found our electricity hadn't been turned on. I felt completely drained, and shafted by a lot of people. It didn't help either when we pulled up that we were being stared at because we were the only white people within 2 square miles, and everyone was outside with thier bottles of alchohol in brown bags...and I do mean everyone was outside. When Joni finally got upset I just about couldn't take anymore, I honeslty felt like hunkering over and crying...which is wierd for me to think that if you know me. But that is just about when things started changing for the better.

My new elder's quorum president showed up with his wife to meet us at just the right time. Turns out Joni's uncle called our new bishop for us to get moving help without telling us. He in turn called three guys to come help us unload before it got dark. Just so happens that one of the guys works for the utility company and got everything straightened out for us so we had power. We were moved in within an hour, all drenched because of the humidity. I didn't think I could sweat out of my eyeballs but now I think otherwise. Our neighbors are all VERY nice. We talked to some people as we were moving in and joked around a lot with them. Every time we walk in and out of the door to go somewhere, there is someone outside we talk to and they are always friendly. When we came home from church on Sunday one lady asked us to pray for her because she didn't go to church that day as she was gulping down a bottle of beer, it was pretty funny. Our new ward is pretty cool, the testimonies in sacrament meeting just blew me away. We have already met a few couples our age that we are becoming friends with. We went to Transformers yesterday with some couples after the 4th of July breakfast, which was a pretty sweet show. Then we cooked hamburgers and fries and played games with another couple until late last night.

I was talking with Joel the other day about small Texas towns and how they are still racially divided. Its really wierd because College Station is so nice and everything seems "perfect", then Bryan is like the ugly stepsister. All the well to do white people live in College Station, and everyone else lives in Bryan. Our experience here has been pretty good so far, but we do notice the racial divide. We live really close to Lake Bryan, we went there the other day and caught the last glimpse of the sun setting on the lake, watching people jetski and a live band was playing in the background. I thought it was a nice touch to our feelings that everything is going to be okay while we are here.