On the road again...

Once upon a time, there was a husband and wife who were on Spring Break.  They decided they were tired of sitting around their apartment and needed some more adventure in their lives, so they packed up their car and headed into the wild blue yonder.  And they lived happily ever after.

I'd like to end my post there, but after the week Haley and I had, there needs to be some clarification:

• We left from school last Friday headed north.  The route we took through Texas, you might have thought we were headed to Choctaw Casino, but we were merely passing through.  We were making our way to Fayetteville, AR to visit Haley's best friend who just recently moved there.  Our drive was rather uneventful, we arrived safely, and we proceeded to spend the next couple of days sightseeing, hiking in the Devil's Den, and playing Settlers of Catan (our favorite board game).  On Monday, we refueled the car and headed off south.  We weren't headed home though.
• Haley got me a brand new tent for my wedding present and we'd been looking for a reason to test it out.  We decided to go camping on the way home from Arkansas and had made reservations at Caddo Lake State Park in Northeast Texas.  Our plan was to stay there for two nights and depart on Wednesday, but little did we know the disaster that awaited.  We went to bed Monday night with a slight chill in the air...we awoke at three in the morning to an arctic chill unlike any we'd ever seen.  We froze our tails off (as in shivering and huddling for warmth) until daybreak when we cooked a hasty breakfast, packed up camp, and headed to Haley's parent's house a day early.
• We arrived to a surprised (but ecstatic) mother-in-law.  We spent the next two days on a whirlwind tour of Tyler and Henderson, TX's furniture stores.  Oddly enough, furniture prices are much more reasonable in small town east Texas compared to Dallas.  We outfitted our entire house (that we close on at the end of the month) for less than I thought we'd spend on a couch.  

Thursday we returned home to the same apartment we'd left less than a week earlier, but we were changed people.  I realize this doesn't seem this odd to you as it does to me, but it was a Spring Break we'll never forget (for good and bad reasons).