Awake 7:30 am 4th night on air mattress 6 hrs 40 min daylight
Forgot to mention: Zack, Katie & some of his buddies loaded up a section
of the moving truck(3 ft X 8 ft X 9 ft)on Monday with his things to be
transported via Move America company. They had to load, unload, and reload
3 times in order to fit his stuff and even had room to spare. Then Zack
and his friends cleaned his apt. He sounded pretty tired when we talked
with him this evening. Zack is driving only his Camry & his goal is to
drive to Seattle in 2.5 days; first stop, Bismarck, N.D., second stop,
Spokane, WA., third stop, Seattle. He left West Lafayette, Indiana on
Tuesday @ 10:00am.
After breakfast, Kathy vacuums the den carpet. She thinks this carpet
cleaned up the best. Meanwhile, I continue with yr 2004 tax prep.
Mid morning, again I load up the RAV 4 with more stuff that we won't need
& we'll take to the refuse center...plus some boxes of good stuff(food,
plants, cleaning supplies, etc)to be given to the Foote family. We leave @
12:10 pm. Drop off the trash @ the refuse center, make a quick stop @ the
Foote's condo & transfer their goodie boxes plus return their Kirby vacuum
cleaner & shampoo attachment....then stop @ our local post office to
change our address & back home @ 1:30.
Then we load up our 4 apple boxes of stuff and 2 small boxes of books and
papers to be sent to our motorhome via FedEx plus 2 boxes to be sent to
our boys in Seattle. After the run to the Metroplex & FedEx, we stop @ the
Marriott Residence Inn & check for vacancy. They only have 2 rooms
available tonight, both smoking rooms. We get a key & check the room for
odor...pretty strong, both of them. The receptionist informs us that their
sister hotel, Marriott Springhill Suites on "A" Street has vacancy. Sure
enough, they do & we sign up for a room for the night. Back to our house @
4:45 to continue with last minute cleaning details. As we are there, new
owner Woody drives around back & begins unloading that big trailer parked
outside the lower garage.
As much as we would have liked to be all finished before 6:00 pm, we are
not going to make it. We agreed to meet Katrina for dinner @ Thai
Kitchen(15 min drive), so we break for food. I do however, convince the
girls to order meals to go & to eat them back @ the house while we
continue to finish what little cleaning remains. We stand at the center
island and eat some before working and then finish our meals.
No question, there will be one more RAV 4 load needed to be packed into
our storage unit tonight before 9:00 pm. Katrina lends a helping hand, I
load our travel suitcases, garment bag, clothes that will remain in
Anchorage & the Atlas storage clothes box. Katrina takes her box of
goodies that Kathy feels will be useful in her apartment & she drives off.
We'll see her tomorrow night. We say "Goodbye" to our wonderful home &
neighborhood of 13 1/2 years & drive off toward our storage unit.
I really wanted to have time to just meander from empty room to empty room
with Kathy & reminisce some of the great memories we had in each of those
rooms with the kids, friends, neighbors & guests over the 13.5 yrs....but
now we'll simply do it when looking @ our pictures.
At the storage unit, we assemble the clothes box, put all the clothes on
it's hangar & the rest of the things on the floor. It's too cold now & I
am getting too tired to do anymore organizing tonight. We drive to our
Marriott Springhill Suites hotel, unload our travel suitcases & garment
bag & head to our room #328 for the night.
Lights out: 11:15 pm
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