Adventures In Moving!

Well, we're here! Finally! Lots to blog about now! Let me start at the beginning:

Thursday morning:

Got up really early to finish the packing we still needed to do. Went and picked up the truck at 8am. We were aiming to be on the road by noon at this point.

Packing the truck took way longer than anticipated. Garret overslept and didn't join us until 10:30 or so, but he was a HUGE help since my muscles just aren't cut out for our heavy furniture.

So 1:00pm rolls around and we're finally ready to go. We couldn't fit everything without risking breaking things but we figure we'd be ok with the number of cars that were going up Saturday. Anyways, of course we weren't able to leave right then. Take a look at the second picture. See the mattress? Well, behind that mattress is our china cabinet. Do you see that black strap holding the mattress against the china cabinet? It was in the worst possible spot. I looked back through the little doorway/hole thing in the cab of the truck while going through downtown Maple Ridge, and to my dismay the top half of our china cabinet had fallen over. Thank goodness for the mattress though, nothing was harmed! But due to this crazy fiasco, along with a tire with low air on the truck, and an accident on Lougheed, we weren't on our way until 2pm.

After about 4 hours and lots of hills, we got there! Finally! We even saw a bear on the way! (I tried taking a picture but it just looks like a black speck) Unloading at J's cousin's house was exciting, as the two crazy cousins decided it would be fun to ride our office chairs down the metal ramp and into the garage.

We unloaded everything and headed home. Dinner in Merritt, and we were home at almost 1am. I was exhausted. The next day I had lunch with Dad and we packed up the vehicles for our next big move, the Official move.

Saturday morning: A much earlier start... We were on the road by 8am. I was nervous, as I'd never driven this far. Luckily for me I had my sister as a passenger/DJ. Our convoy was made up of myself and my sister in the Vibe (I took the nicest car), J in the Suzuki, my mom, and J's parents. The deal was to meet up at the first rest stop after the toll booth.

I must drive like a superstar, because we were so the first ones to arrive! (Hence, the picture) J was second and my mom was right behind him as a close third. J's parents arrived about a half hour later. (In their defence they had to drop off Gizmo at the grandparent's house and so they took the long way to Hope).

So we ended up at our new place at just after 12:00 noon. Unfortunately, the previous tenant had not moved out yet. We asked her how long she might be and she said "at least another couple hours"... We went to Boston Pizza for lunch in hopes that she might've disappeared by the time we got back. This was not the case. She said it was ok if we moved in as she moved out. Kinda frustrating, but the poor girl was moving all by herself... She'd had a final exam both Thursday and Friday and I guess her roommates had moved out before, so they weren't helping her either. We offered to help her but she said no... Anyways, she wasn't even out by the time everyone who came to help us left. I think she ended up finishing after 7pm that day. Craziness!!

Our place is really starting to come together. That first night as we were unpacking, people downstairs were out on their patio jamming... Lindsey - you would've loved it - there was even a didge!!!!!!!!! Along with an acoustic guitar and a djembe drum. It was a sweet way to unpack!

So those were our moving adventures... Stay tuned for Adventures In Kamloops!!