Our New Home, and the crazy journey it took to get here. . .

Well, we are finally finished. It took for freakin ever but we are finally in Utah. It turned out to be a crazy journey too. We have of course been packing for the past month or two, but the last entire month was a real strain. Tara and I are both feeling the relief that comes from getting things together.

Today is the first day we didn't have to move furniture of some kind, oh wait, we built the new Bookcase, and brought in the kitchen table, man I am crazy. Well, tomorrow, no furniture, we just have to install more blinds, like 8 sets or something crazy like that. I am gonna be exhausted after that too, hopefully we will get it done quickly so that we can just relax for the rest of the day, and enjoy the last day off. Ok, so how crazy?

Thursday June 23, 2007 6:15am:

Alarm sounds, James has been awake for at least 45 min just waiting for the dumb thing to go off, Tara has too, but neither one of them knew the other one was till later. Get up, shower, get dressed, get over to Budget to pick up the truck. Get the Truck, go home, and agree to go back and get the tow dolly attached so that we can tow the Tercel.

7:30am:

We start packing up the 4 TV's (two of which we won't be connecting to satelite), about 1/3 of Tara's plants and other important artifacts into the two cars.

8:30am:

Done with the cars mostly, so we start loading boxes and what we can lift into the truck.

9:45am:

Help arrives!!!! Rebecca (a friend of Tara's from the Library) shows up with her two willing and somewhat eager teenagers to help start loading the furnature, just as Rebecca is walking up Gary arrives and starts talking about my comic books.

10:45am:

MORE HELP ARRIVES, Chip, Jina, Austin, Dylan, and Ryan all show up ready to help load.

11:45am 95 degrees F:

The truck is HOT. I lost 10lbs just sweating that week.

1:30pm

Pizza time. Sweaty people eathing pizza, drinking gallons of water, sitting in front of a moving truck, and sitting on the grass trying to cool off in the shade, little is said, lots of cooling off.

2:20pm.

Can't get everything into the vehicles that we have. We decide to drop off the Truck in Utah, and drive the RAV back to CA, on Monday, and get everything else.

Carpet Cleaners show up, James drives over To Granny's and takes a shower. James and Tara run more errands. . .

It was a heck of a day, and then we did it on Saturday, in reverse, no blood spilt, well not much anyway, Daniel scraped his knee, probably when he was trying to climb on the roof of the house, I don't mind, I know that I would have tried the same thing if I were his age. Roof's are fun, or at least can be.

Drove back to CA, on Tuesday, because we wanted a day away from the car, turns out we had to go to Walmart almost every day so far, tomorrow hopefully only have to go to the Home Depot to get more Blinds. We are tired. This has been a VERY long week, but I promise you we are proud of what we have, now I have to start work on Monday. oye.

Night all.