I know I am going a little bit out of order as Jin likes to do her posts in the order that pictures were taken, but I'm going to recap our move.
Last Tuesday is when it all really started, this is when the packers (not the football team, just Sisco and Benny) came and started boxing up our house. Izzy couldn't quite figure our what was going on, but she is so easy going that it didn't seem to phase her. She even napped while they were working which is a miracle because it seems that Benny was born without volume control and only knows LOUD!
By Thursday the only thing we had left in the house is what we were packing in the U-haul to bring with us. Jin must have developed about 37 different comprehensive lists of what to bring with us and even then we were not sure that we would have enough room. Needless to say the house was very empty.
Friday was cleaning. We had a cleaning lady come and she did most of the inside work for us (big shout out to mom for helping flip the cleaning bill). As it turns out we probably could have saved some money and had Izzy do the cleaning. I have the feeling that this would have not have been as cost effective in the long run.
Saturday it was on the road. After loading the U-haul we headed out. It turns out that list number 37 must have been the magic list because everything fit, but not by much. We had to get the car and trailer weighed on the way out of town and it turns out that the poor little Santa Fe was towing about 2300 lbs. Because Jin will be making a similar move in a couple of months, we may follow the Jennifer Starr Guide to Surviving a Deployment and purchase a newer, stronger, roomier vehicle. While we weren't the fastest car on the road, we weren't the slowest either. The first day we passed one other car, the second day four and the third day back down to one. See not the slowest.
Izzy got a little feisty at times but that is what you would expect when you travel with a 17 month old. We found a solution for that though:
As it turns out, she didn't mind because she was apparently just conducting business on the road.
We arrived in Colorado Springs on Monday and have spent the last couple days getting settled. There are new and exciting things for the dogs to see and bark at like trees and deer. Deer that come right up to our window and eat off of our neighbors back porch. Our first morning here we got quite the wake up. First it was the skunk that we are pretty sure spayed under our front door at 4 AM. Then when Jin took the dogs out at 6:30 (I had already been out with them 3 times between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM) she was greeted by 4 or 5 deer 10 feet from our door. As you can guess our ADD pointer loves the deer.
I'm sure that there are details that I am leaving out (or conveniently forgetting) and Jin can cover those, if she chooses.
1 comment:
Dude, GET A VAN!
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