This weekend was supposed 2 be a ‘chilin out’ weekend for me, but my uncle just had 2 move 2 NY this weekend.<\/p>\n
Lemme tell you about my uncle (I’m always telling you about people, right? I wonder how said people would feel when they find out I’ve been writin about them. Let’s hope they don’t find out anyways): He is a lawyer – or rather, was a lawyer in Naija, but hasn’t started working here as a Lawyer. He moved 2 the States on the 2nd of June 2006 (exactly 3 months ago). He was staying with my aunt (his junior sister) here in MD, but took the NY bar because he wants 2 live in NY. The results aren’t out yet, but he went 2 NY and found an apartment for him and his family. We thought he was gonna live in NY by himself, make a living, put his feet on the ground (while his kids are schoolin here in Maryland), but the man had a different agenda. So….anyways, he found an apartment but the problem was how to get there with his entire family (wife & two kids) and all their property – clothes, shoes. pots, food stuff, few electronics, etc that my mother and his sisters bought for them. Taking the bus won’t be easy cause some1 would have 2 pick them up in NY but their property would be too much to fit in one car. <\/p>\n
To cut the long story short, my mother offered to drive them there. Her plan was to rent a Ford expedition truck from Enterprise, drive them 2 NY, drop the truck at a NY Enterprise location and then take Greyhound (the bus) back, but Enterprise said she couldn’t leave their MD vehicle at their NY location, so my mother figured she’d just drive to and fro. I figured that was her only option, but then I started wondering who would come back with her from NY. I asked her if any of her sisters were going with her and she said no, so I offered to go with her, so that she would not be driving and tryna read the directions @ the same time. So that’s how I ended up in NY. We ended up renting a Ford F120 pick-up truck cause their stuff was toooo much. We left MD @ 3:15pm and got to NY past 8pm, so the trip took us about 5 hours instead of three and half (thanks to TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO!!!). It rained all the way from MD to NY and back to MD, but thank God for granting us journey mercies.<\/p>\n
Anyways, I’m glad to be back home. Did you miss me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"