Goodbye

Our goodbyes are finished and a new chapter is beginning. We said our final farewells today, and headed west towards Ohio. I am not really sure about how I feel about the whole thing....it may not have completely sunk in yet. I got away with fewer tears than I anticipated, and I am not sure if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. Time will tell.

We made it to PA today. It took us about 5 1/2 hours because of a dinner stop and some traffic around NYC. Kevin thought we would skirt around the Big Apple...but apparently, the GPS had a different idea. We drove right through the Bronx and into New Jersey. We got fabulous views of the Manhattan skyline, and that was fun to see again.

Sesame Place is on the schedule for tomorrow...unfortunately, the weather is grim. There is a 70% chance of rain ALL day. Ughhhhh. Hopefully, the weather man is wrong. I really hate being partially wet and partially dry. If I am in a pool, that is fine. If I am completely dry, that is fine. It is the in between part that I really hate.

The packing and cleaning of our house went well. Nothing notable happened. The new house is ready for our arrival...overgrown hedges and all. Kevin said that one of the bushes has overtaken the sidewalk. I guess yard work will be pretty high on the list of things to get done when we arrive!

Here are a few of our moving pictures. Here we have Kevin and Noah checking out the moving truck......

This is Noah and Rebekah inside the cab of the moving truck. The kids were thrilled to be given a ride in the truck to the end of our cul-de-sac when the driver had to turn around. The crew was excellent...very friendly with the kids and happy to do their best to accommodate us. Noah followed the poor guys around with incessant chatter peppering them with questions for two days straight. I am sure they will be grateful for the quiet on the long drive to Ohio. :)

This is Bekah with the moving crew just before they pulled away. Noah was at school at the time...so he didn't get to be there. He was disappointed. In the middle is the crew chief...Denzell (the one that Rebekah affectionately calls 'the one with the big belly'), and on either side there is a Ryan. Yes, they both have the same name. It makes things easier that way!

One of the nice things about this move is that we get to have the same crew at both ends. When we came from Switzerland to the USA there was no continuity...for obvious reasons, the people at either end were completely different. We already feel like we know these guys and they have a good understanding of us (well...mainly me) and our quirks. Denzell said that the picture became clear when he saw how neatly my children's drawers were folded and the colour coded closets helped to hammer the message home too. We have already talked about how we will systematically unpack and keep things as organized as possible. Stay tuned.....