first, our train got delayed from 5:22 to 7:30. we were ok with that, and we started getting packed up and ready to go. when we called back an hour or so later though, we found that the train was delayed to 10:30 and then later on 11:30pm. so, our plan of driving in the daylight with the bad roads was shot, and we left raymond about 8:30 or so. oh and we is me, my mom, and becks. the border was easy, and beckam did great on the drive down, we got there an hour early like we were supposed to. now to make another long story short, we didn't end up leaving shelby until 1:30am or so, and it was a looonnngg train ride to spokane. i guess the weather was holding everything up, and we didn't get to spokane until 11:30am or so - past the time we were supposed to be in portland! needless to say, we weren't impressed! AND we were even less impressed when they informed us that we would be getting off the train and boarding a bus that would take us the rest of the way. are you kidding me??? the whole point of going on the train was to make things easy for beckam and to travel through the night and to get to portland asap to see dust again! not much we could do though, so we got out in the pouring rain/snow in spokane and headed to a greyhound where we say and waited for them to load our luggage, and we left spokane at about 1:30pm.
me and becks waiting at the shelby train station - a little ghetto that's for sure!
grandma and becks asleep on the train - not the easiest place to sleep with all of the stops and starts, but we tried!
it was quite an adventure to feed beckam on the bus with all of the bumps and turns! we made do though :)
grandma trying to keep beckam quiet so that the people around us could sleep - good luck!
thankfully, the rest of the trip was ok. my mom and i rushed and got 3 seats at the back of the bus where we could sprawl out a little and where we had room for beckam and his carseat and all of our stuff. becks did pretty good in the bus, and the roads were pretty good, and we made it to portland around 8:30pm. it felt sooo good to get off that bus and to see dust and lacey again :) we were super duper tired, but all was well cuz we made it! it was sooo nice to have my mom with me, and i'm so thankful for a good baby who was a real trooper through our nightmare trip. we have some good memories now, and we are now officially living in portland - woohoo!!! oh and i guess we were too tired to think of taking pictures of our arrival in portland even though that was the best part!
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oh the joy's of the train!!! I know that ghetto shelby train station well as do I know the looong stop in Spokane. And the 5thousand people who stop to talk to you and think that they are your best friend cause your on the train together. And though I personally have never had to get out and take a bus, almost all of my family members who have taken the train to see me have had too. Ahh good old Amtrak!
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