Chapter 2--Life is a series of boxes

Our next task was to get the house ready for the movers arriving on Monday, 10/20. In between sorting through closets for keep & move stuff vs donate stuff, we had a great time spending time with all of our friends in Salt Lake. We are going to miss everyone so much!!!!

The movers arrived on Monday. Rodney, the driver, and his two man crew Sandy and Geraldo. It was funny to see this huge truck roll up into our tiny little neighborhood!

We're going to miss the view of the mountains too!

I also included a photo of the SLC house after our yard renovation--we love it and are bummed that we didn't do it three years ago!

Moving through a full-service movers is quite an experience--first off, you can't pack anything because if you pack it, the movers' insurance will not insure it. So, we basically set aside the stuff we planned to carry in our cars and anything else not bolted down was packed up by Rodney and the crew. Our quaint little bungalow in SLC was apparently filled with stuff that had been cleverly hidden, and it turns out that we had more stuff than they thought that we did. It was a strange sense of deja vu to see our life carefully collapsed back into another series of boxes... it felt like just yesterday that we'd arrived here.

It took them just a day and a half to get everything boxed up, and then another day to load it on the truck. And so, Wednesday, 10/23, we hit the road...