Home again, home again jiggity jig!

Tomorrow starts our road trip back to the good old north west. My nose longs to smell pine trees again and my eyes are sore from lack of green. I want to see mountains again. (mountains Gandalf!!) (...don't tell my husband I said that. I would never hear the end of it...)

Anywho, tomorrow, Hailey and I are New Mexico bound to pick up Tina and Rosaline. We then leave Tuesday at 0'dark thirty (aka around 4 am) and head to Phoenix, Arizona. TJ and Tina's Aunt, uncle and cousins live there as well as my bestie! From there we head to Sacramento, California to visit TJ and Tina's Grandma then off to Oregon. If all goes according to plan we should be pulling into town late on the 30th.

Getting ready for this road trip makes me feel very American. I love my country :) It gives me great pride to see the beauty that we have right at our fingertips and I frequently turn on patriotic songs throughout my road trips to get the all American, road trip feel going to the fullest. This is one of my favorites.

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thorough fare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.