moving day & the drive to pennsylvania

thursday, august 12, 2010

atlas van lines (northlake moving & storage) sent candy and andrew over to begin packing.  being the good little organizer that i should be, i had purple sticky notes all over everything telling the packers to pack, not to pack, and what was "early out" stuff.

after 2 hours of packing on thursday evening

friday, august 13, 2010

yes, we decided to move on friday the 13th.   we may have "paid" for it a little bit...keep reading, you'll see. :-)

john and i stayed up until 3:30am that morning trying to get last minute stuff done - loading up our car, etc.  we rolled out of bed at 8:00am, and the movers arrived at 8:30.  they packed all day...

i did some touch-up painting as they loaded up our 3 smartmove pods... 

they took my car (it was going to be transported on a carrier) and the pods and the workers were gone by 4:00pm.

(john's dad was going to pick up the couch the next day...it was theirs to begin with)

 then, as john was walking out of the condo for one of the last times...

...he noticed a trickle of water coming down the wall from where our air conditioning vent was in the ceiling...a moment later, a stream of water began pouring out of the vent...

this was john catching the water in his hand, which by the way, did not work very well.  our carpet got soaked.  i had thankfully stashed an extra trash bag in the pantry, so we used it to catch the water.  john borrowed a screwdriver from a neighbor and took the vent cover off and water gushed out all over john, the wall, and the carpet.  this was john for the next hour and fifteen minutes...

we think the water stopped dripping.  we're not really sure.  haha.  we were DONE.  DONE with everything related to the condo and anything else in covington.  it was time to GO.  we left and dropped off our trash at the dumpster in the complex, and as john threw one of the bags away, an empty lemonade plastic bottle fell out. he threw it really hard into the dumpster opening, and it bounced off the edge of the opening and nailed me square in the eyeball.  i immediately burst into tears because (a) it hurt seriously bad and (b) the stress of the day came crashing down on me all at once.  poor john felt TERRIBLE.  luckily, it only took about 3 minutes to start laughing at the situation.  we then had to swing by john's dad's house to give him our cable box for him to return for us to slidell since our little water issue pushed us into leaving too late to be able to return the thing.  then...we FINALLY got on the road...at 6:00pm!  ugh.

we made it to birmingham at 11pm and spent the night with john's good friend, steve, and his family. 

saturday, august 14, 2010

we slept in and got lunch with them at panera bread and got back on the road a little before 1pm.  we made it to roanoke, va between 10 and 11pm, hotel hunted, and decided on country inn and suites.

sunday, august 15, 2010

we got up, ate hotel breakfast, and got back on the road at 10:45am.  the scenery for the next few hours was GORGEOUS.  the pictures hardly do it justice...

it was pretty cloudy, and yes, i took these pictures as i was driving.

we finally arrived at our temporary home in harleysville, pa around 6:00pm.  we stepped out of the car and it was a lovely 70 degrees outside - granted it was sprinkling - but 70!  nice!

so, there ya go...there's our moving day and our drive to pennsylvania.  :-)