Sorry for the long absence, but we moved!
After Elissa graduated and walked, we moved back to our house in Minnesota. So for the past few weeks, I've been without internet connectivity. It's been a blessing and a curse. It's nice to get away from the computers for a while, but it still sucks when you have to stand out in your front yard to check your email off a stranger's wireless connection. ;-)
The move has gone mostly well. We took off from Riverside on a Monday morning, and made it to the house by Wed evening. We'd went about 700 miles a day (ten hours of driving), and did 2044 miles in three days, with both of the cats in the car with us. Needless to say, I don't want to sit in a car for a while. ;-) But the trip was uneventful with no major disasters. It was great to see a lot of the country during the move.
But no move is complete without some horror story -- this move's horror story has been dealing with the moving company (Mega Van Lines). Our stuff still hasn't left CA, even though we were told over the phone it would be delivered on the 22nd (this past Monday). Rawr!
Since most of our stuff is still in transit, we're not truly able to "live" in the house right now, which sucks. But it's not stopped us from getting started on the joys of home ownership. We've been doing a lot of gardening, and shopping for things like furniture. Our bedroom set arrived yesterday, the mattress next week, but it will be 6-8 week before our couch arrives. So while we wait to be able to do stuff inside the house, we've been focusing on the outside by doing a ton of weeding, planting and planning for gardens.
All in all, it's great to be back! We've even been treated to a few thunderstorms since arriving, which have been awesome!
Glad you guys made it back in one piece. I know you'll miss good ol' Riverside, but time will heal those wounds... ;-)
Welcome back! Glad to hear you made it one piece. Hopefully your belongings catch up with you soon.
It is a fun drive, all considered. Welcome back to MN, it is around 100 degrees of late (I'm sure you noticed). I'm in Willmar, I understand you ain't too far from here?
I have a 37" LCD TV and a Epson printer in storage in Anaheim -should of asked you to throw it in the moving van! (just kidding)
Careful with moving companies. My wife and I had a awful experience moving to MN from Florida in 1995. Moving companies gang their work so one truck moves like 4-5 people. So it sometimes happens that junk gets dispaced. Moving companies are franchised so they may have a big name (ours was Eastern Van Lines), you are still dealing with a small company. We lost a couple significant items and demanded that the company find them and/or compensate us. We fussed for over 3 months and just when I was REALLY going to something about it, their phone got disconnected and poof they disappeared. Nothing we could do about it.
Enjoy your new place! (Watch out for tornados!)
We've been back for long enough to order new furniture, get half of it, dig out and plant an entire garden, and our stuff still hasn't arrived from CA. In fact, it's not even on a truck yet. So if anyone feels like driving to LA to go on a shooting spree for me, I'll buy the first few boxes of bullets.