Adventures

Going to Tonopah to apartment hunt was very insightful. Every time we told anyone we were moving to there, they would get this shocked look on their face and then tell us that there was nothing there and by nothing they meant not even grass. I have to say that this concerned me. Luckily, when we got there, we were pretty happy. It is definitely small (only like 2500 residents) but they have quite a bit of commerce. Tons of gas stations, grocery options, saloons (yep, I’m serious), and restaurant options. A family from Overton has actually lived in Tonopah so they set us up with some of their friends that still live there. One of them happens to be the bishop of THE ward there. I was a little disappointed to find out that there are only 60 active members though. After thinking about it for a while and seeing quite a few missionaries, I have decided that the church situation will be a great adventure. The really exciting thing about the town is that rent is so dirt cheap that we are going to be able to rent a house! Yeah! We have turned in an application on a three bedroom, one bath home and hopefully we will hear back soon. Hopefully it will be really soon because we need to move this weekend or the beginning of next week. So the wheels are in motion! Once we found the house, we decided to drive back to Delta instead of spending the night. We left after sun down which gave us great insight Tonopah’s star gazing. The place is supposed to have the darkest skies in the whole U.S. They aren’t kidding when people say that. It was so dark that you could not tell when the mountains ended and sky started. There were deer crossing signs everywhere and it really freaked us out because you can’t see ANYTHING outside the headlight range. Maybe it would have better if the moon was out. And by the way, Route 6 has the nickname of the loneliest highway, which is also an accurate description. In five hours we only saw one semi in our lane and we only past 4 cars going the other way. The only town we went through was Ely. All in all we had a 4 hour drive to Tonopah, a 5 hour drive to Delta, and spent at least 3 hours driving back and fourth around Tonopah. We are so sick of being in the car. The awesome thing is that Rees took it like a champ. He only fussed off and on about the last two hours of the trip and I think that was mostly because he wanted to sleep in his crib instead of the car seat. Did we get lucky or what?