Ready to Move?!

It's Tuesday and we are ready to move to Colorado. But will it happen......
time will tell.
We picked up the truck at Penske's on Milwaukee's East Side in the morning.
BIG TRUCK! 26' long.
And then on top of that we planned on pulling our Prius on a trailer.
We decided to leave the trailer at the rental establishment until Wednesday and hook it on then. Less to worry about and no place to keep it anyway.

Went back to our house on Tripoli. Leng (our neighbor)showed up to help us move at about 11AM. Eric and Anthony came about noon. And the fun began. A few hours later, Peter's sister Susan came to help me with the remainder of the packing. Just having someone else there was a big morale boost for me!
This has been a lot of work thus far.
When you think you have everything packed, think again!
When you think you have downsized and given away or thrown away all unnecessary things, think again!

Stopped for a bite of lunch from Subway, and then back to work again. No such thing as rest for us!

Continued to pack things into the truck, but it did not seem feasible that everything was going to fit!
When the house proper was emptied, they headed downstairs to take out more. But there was still the garage and the shed to work on! No way was this all going to fit!

Doug's buddy, Jason came to help in the afternoon after his class. Right away it seemed he knew what to do about restacking the boxes etc in the truck to make more
room. Experience does that! So unfortunately, many of the things had to be rearranged. And all of this on one of the hottest days of the year.
And because we still live in Milwaukee, a very humid day as well! One of the reasons, we are moving out of Milwaukee to Colorado where it is drier.

Everyone worked until about 7PM. Peter and I continued to do last minute clean up through out the house and then stopped to check our e-mail and grab some supper at Arby's. By this time is was well unto 10PM. Peter suggested that we get a motel for the night and start over fresh again tomorrow. I could have cared less where I put my head, but I guess a soft pillow, a bed and a shower did sound pretty good! And this way we had a place to leave that massive truck. The e-mail we received from the bank meant that we would have to write another letter of explanation for the underwriters and fax it to them ASAP. Plan was to go to the motel to work on that. But sleep at that time was way more attractive.

So we headed West and got as far as West Allis where we stayed for the evening. Difficult to unwind even though we were so tired. Morning would be here soon and we had to do it all over again!