Well all...it's been a long time.
Lots of exhausting things have happened since I last posted.
Let's do the play by play....
We did a virtual tour of a house and it ended up being a really nice house, no fencing in yard, but it was really, really nice. We decided to put a bid in. Ended up winning it, though when our realtor called to tell us he also told us that our number one favorite house was now being offered to us. The previous winners apparently did not read the contract and didn't realize there was a septic tank and that was a hard no for them.
So now we had two houses to choose from. They were about the same price and were both very nice. We spent the night agonizing over the choice and in the morning ended up going with the dream house that has 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, a screened in pool, and a big fenced yard that even had a mango tree.
Closing was for just a few days after our apartment lease ran out so it worked nicely.
We figured one of us should actually see the house before we committed to such a large purchase. Last minute plane tickets were a lot of money so we only got a ticket for Brian to go.
He flew in the day before the inspection and was able to check out the house while the inspection was happening. He liked it a lot and said it was very nice. The inspection actually found very few problems so that was also good.
Nov 14 was getting closer so we finalized our moving plans and kept packing boxes.
Nov 13 (Friday) we had a few friends come over to help us load the bigger items into the truck. Loading took a bit longer than we thought so we got a later start on Saturday than we wanted.
Almost done!
Seriously though, we were exhausted. Packing the truck took longer than we thought and then we also had to make sure the place was spotless.
We were towing the car behind the moving truck and the dog was with us in the cab lying between the two front seats. It was pretty slow driving. I think recommended speeds for a moving truck towing a car were 55, and we didn't go much faster than that.
The slow speed actually made the drive somewhat nice, wasn't too bad just to have everyone pass us and not worry about passing anybody else.
It was a roughly twelve hour ride. We did about 4-5 hours the first day and got a hotel outside of St Louis. We slept in bit because we were super tired. Didn't end up getting to my parents until around 10. Originally, this was supposed to be a rest day. Since we were behind, we would have to get up in the morning and continue on.
First we had to switch the cars being towed, which was fun to do in the freezing cold dark night.
So with way too little sleep we got going towards FL. At least the dog got to hang out with my parents.
The drive through West Virginia is usually very pretty, but with all those mountains and ups and downs it kind of sucked with the moving truck and car.
It was roughly a 14 and a half hour drive. I think we made it to Virginia that first night and got a hotel.
We were up and at em early again. And yet still, we didn't end up getting to Florida until 8:30. The storage unit place closed at 10, we at least wanted to get the car into it's storage unit so we spent a bit of time unloading then went to the hotel.
This was the fun part, I had found a really good Orbitz deal at the Caribbean Beach Pirate rooms. So at least we got to stay somewhere fun.
The hotel was nicely decorated for Christmas. One funny story, the second we pulled into Caribbean Beach with a moving truck Disney security was all over us, wanting to know what we were doing. Once we explained the story they were fine with it, but I was kind of impressed with how quickly they found us.
I had thought we could have most of a rest day at the hotel, but once again, we were over a day behind so we didn't get any rest. We woke up around 9 the next day and headed to the storage unit.
Unpacking took about 7.5 hours. It was pretty brutal. We were both exhausted from all the packing and driving.
When we were finally done we decided to have dinner at a Disney resort. Ours didn't have any table, so we made a last minute ADR at Rix's at Coronado. I'd never been there but it was pretty good.
The restaurant was pretty empty and we were far from the nearest table. Here is my post unpacking drink (coincidentally enough it was called 'everything hurts'):
I would have loved to sleep in the next morning, but the truck and trailer were due back and we actually had to drive about 45 minutes each way out to Clermont to return them.
We ended up flying back, I don't think either one of us could take anymore driving. The Southwest flight was pretty nice, the flight attendants were strict about asking people to put their masks on and they left the middle seats empty. Which I also heard they stopped doing on Dec 1.
I did appreciate some of the Pittsburgh airport's social distancing signs:
So it was a pretty tiring move and we'd fallen behind from the start. But at least now...all we had to do was wait another 10 days and we'd be in our new home!
Or not.
On Dec 1 our realtor ended up calling and said the seller's new house wasn't ready and could we either rent them the house or extend the closing.
Even though we Reeeeeally did not want to extend, they had two young kids and nowhere to go. We just asked if they'd pay the storage fees and they agreed.
So now we're not moving in until a few days after Christmas.
Which means we're stuck with my parents for the next month. My parents aren't bad but their internet is terrible and I still have to work. It's also very crowded. We don't have access to our stuff in storage and we only packed as if we'd be gone for 3 weeks, not almost 2 months.
It's going to be a trying month. but that's where we are at the moment.
. We will look to be closing sometime around January 22nd to 25th and moving at that time also.
