Well, we didn't get started as early as we wanted to because moving sucks and it took forever. On Thursday we worked on getting things out of our little storage unit at the apartment (4x4) into the bigger family unit (10x10) so that we'd have a centralized area of stuff. We also did a bit of packing, but I gave up around 3 a.m. to take a 1 hour nap...and then didn't wake up until 5:30, leaving me only about 2 hours to accomplish the impossible feat of finishing before Kyle's dad showed up. Ick. So as you might guess, I didn't finish. After that I found out that much of what I had I didn't care a lot about, so we started chunking things that we thought we could just re-buy. We liked them, but they weren't worth packing.
Friday came and we (Kyle, his dad, and myself) headed to Uhaul to get the truck. Since the 10x10 was on premise there, we loaded that first. Huge problem - the truck was nearing half full and very well packed. Two questions - 1) Would everything left in the apartment (most of our stuff, meaning Kyle's and mine) fit and 2) were we going to be paying a huge amount over the footage we estimated on the truck? Well, not everything did fit, but we packed the truck as full as possible and headed to San Jose. Thankfully the ABF trailer was a lot bigger than the truck. It took us three hours to unpack the Uhaul and pack the ABF trailer, but we finally emptied the Uhaul. On the way back we picked up our friend and he helped us a lot that night and all day on Saturday. We weren't going to get all of our stuff packed on the ABF trailer before the midnight deadline, so we ended up quitting for the night and waiting until Saturday. We went to breakfast with Kyle's sisters and dad and friend, and then started packing again. We took the truck back Saturday night, and Sunday Kyle and I finished packing. We loaded the truck, put up the wall, and took off. Then we went back to the apartment, packed the car, and left around 5:30. We were both way too wiped to do anything else for the apartment, so we left it in a state of disarray. If we get half our deposit back I'll be happy, and we didn't have the energy or patience to clean so paying someone else was worth it.
Anyway, I'll write more later about the trip. This is already a good deal longer than I intended.
