Day 8: The end is in site

We woke up mid-afternoon, packed our belongings and headed for our new "home." Countless toll bridges later, we finally made it to Jersey. I would like to say we fist pumped and danced our way into the state the whole drive in, however we ended up having a tough stressful deadline to meet. We were given instructions by a rude office lady that if we did not arrive by exactly 4:30pm we would not be getting our apartment keys. To make matters worse, our GPS was having a melt down and the office lady could not give us directions to the campus to save her life. Her excuse was she was from Pennsylvania and she did not know the Jersey area for which Chris responded, we just drove from California and you drive to work everyday so figure it out. Arriving at 4:29pm we stormed the office and were able to get our keys. Excited and nervous, we arrived at our new home. With mixed emotions we opened the door to find a huge apartment that needed some lovin' and a pink bathroom. That's right, a pink bathroom. Come to find out weeks later at a BBQ we are not the only ones to have a pink bathroom, everyone has a pink bathroom. I thought we were the special ones that got the retro pink tiled catastrophe but apparently pink tile is the cheapest to build with hence the pink. Although we have come to love our apartment. Initially we were in shock in part because of the exhaustion from the drive. We settled in to our new home for the night with a blow up mattress (our things arrived the next day) anxious for a good night sleep. Chris leaned in to give me a good night kiss and as he did so all of our weight shift to one side of the air mattress causing his whole arm to swiftly smack into my face. With tears welling up from the blow to the nose we both laughed hysterically. It was the perfect end to our crazy adventure.