Packed Up and Shipping Out

The last week has been extremely busy!  Derek and I made lots of spreadsheets and checklists to keep track of everything that we needed to do this week to make sure we didn't forget anything.  So far, I think everything has gone pretty smoothly.

A couple of things happened that were unexpected but we were able to deal with them pretty quickly.  The first happened on Wednesday night when we were trying to disconnect the washer and dryer and realized that when Sears installed the gas dryer that they broke the handle on the gas line.  After some internet searches and calls to some plumbing companies we were able to determine that the valve was closed and safety disconnected the dryer.  Wednesday night we also tried to move our refrigerator which we were selling to our friends down the street.  The problem was between Derek and I we weren't able to move it very far.  We were thankful for our movers who were kind enough to wheel it the six houses down the street for us on Thursday.

How far the movers got the fridge

How far Derek and I got the fridge

On Wednesday we did last minute sorting into air, ocean, and storage around the house and packed our suitcases.  Thursday was our packing day. The movers showed up and packed up everything in the house.  It is amazing how fast they can come in and box everything up.  The twist to our Thursday was that the buyers of our home (that's right, we sold it!) needed the inspector to come so we had to deal with that in the middle of all the movers.  Needless to say, we were exhausted when we finally left the house that night and barely stayed up long enough to watch the start of college football.

Our living room all packed up.

Friday was our loading day.  The movers showed up with our 20' container and loaded all of our ocean shipment items into it.  I'm really glad they didn't bring the 40' container because we could't even fill the 20'.  After they sealed up the container and drove it off they brought back another truck to fill with all of our items going to storage.

Our 20' container in front of the house

Finished filling the container and closing
it up.  We weren't even close to filling it.

All the storage containers lined up and ready to be filled

We are hoping that our Saturday travel day will be uneventful.  Most importantly, we want Maddie to get shipped off with out any issues.  Singapore, here we come!