Did you know your house echoes when it's empty? At least our house does!
So it's really official now - 235 items and boxes fit into 7 crates, and it's all on its way to Hawaii. We'll know on Monday how much it weighed. The head mover estimated between 7,500 and 8,000 pounds. As long as we're under 9,000, I'm happy. (Any more than that and we have to pay for the difference.)
The dogs have been at Doggie Day Care every day since Wednesday, and they were pretty confused each night when they came home and more of our stuff was gone. I'm actually really proud of them - they came home last night to the empty house, and I think that phased them less than having a ton of boxes around. They didn't even bother to explore the house - I guess they just figured it all disappeared, but they still had their people, so it was ok. We set up to sleep in the coolest room, the office, and we put an old comforter down in the corner. They settled right in on it and slept all night. I'm sure it helps that they're exhausted from spending 3 beautiful, sunny days at day care.
Today we're cleaning up, sweeping floors, filling holes in the wall, & washing windows. We still need to paint over the patched holes in the walls, deep clean the kitchen and bathrooms, and mop the floors, but it's always so easy to clean an empty house. We'll be done in no time.
Ella found her ball and has been carrying it around all day with this very protective look on her face. It's as if she's saying, "I don't know what you did with the rest of the stuff, but you're not getting my ball!" Molly's just happy to sit in the sun, as usual. She's really going to love Hawaii!
Tomorrow we'll go to the Bridge Celebration service, then probably visit the last few places we need or want to see before we leave. Monday Jarrod will go into work for the last of his checkouts, and I'll have some work to do in the morning while I wait for the meter reader and the cable guy to show up and disconnect our services. Once all of those things are done, we're hitting the road! First stop, a visit with our friend Rachel Kibbe, who lives outside Washington, DC, then on to Virginia Beach!
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