We Made It!

What day is it anyway? I have totally lost track of time and days, the move is finally complete, we are in our new home slowly unpacking. Justin is hanging curtains as I type, we're trying to get bathroom curtains and office curtains in (they are a priority). It was a long two day trip with the Penske truck - we will never do that again! We stopped outside Austin on our first night, it was very late so we stopped at a Holiday Inn Express for the night. We weren't sure what we were going to do with poor Walter, he was already stressed after the 6 hour drive so we didn't want to leave him out in a cage in the sweltering Texas heat by himself all night, after all, he is a member of the family! Since our room was on the third floor of the hotel with only a few ways in I wasn't sure how I was going to get the Big Guy in without getting caught. I ended up sneaking him in inside a duffle bag. I think he was okay with anything as long as it wasn't more car ride! He had a great night in the hotel sleeping with us. I even made him a makeshift litter box out of the drink tray in the hotel room - caution: never drink from the cups on the cup tray in a hotel, you never know what the tray was used for! Walter has been acting great since we arrived at the new house, we think he's gone into early retirement. Justin is pretty bruised up from all the moving, he is so tired and pretty stressed. He unpacked most of the truck in the sweltering heat of the day, only two guys showed up to help us and one left after only about an hour and the other left after the truck was half unpacked! We got up early this morning and went to the closing on the new house, after that we went to city hall to get utilities moved into our name, we returned the truck and signed insurance papers, the cable tv/internet/phone guy came by and ran new lines so we would be connected. Thank goodness Siti & Papa were here with us to watch Annabelle (by the way she only wants to be called "Babe Writer" now, not Annabelle). Siti and Papa will be staying here in McAllen until at least Monday. Siti did a great job of driving even though she's not a pro, she only almost hit us once, she slammed on the brakes and the car made a screeching sound, Annabelle said "what was that?" and I said "that was Siti, she almost hit us" Annabelle said "Siti probably only needs to drive in Kansas, not Texas!"...so true! Papa did great, I'm sure they are both worn out from all this hassle. Next time they come to visit we hope they will have more time to relax! Tomorrow we hope to get a little rest! We have lots of work to do here, the place is a little dusty and dirty and needs some love so we'll be spending a lot of time sprucing things up around here. Anyone want to come help unpack??