As of tomorrow we are down to the single digits – so much to do, so little time!
Finally the rental agreement for our house is signed and we have our first check in hand. Luis and Luisa, our renters, have been here a couple of times and I feel very confident that things will work out with them just fine. I think the arrangement is almost perfect, they move into our house on the 20th and stay until July 5th, we will return just a few days later. They like to use our housewares so they don’t have to buy them and I am grateful that I don’t have to pack every last towel, spoon and pan, let alone couches, desks and chairs. Good thing our music system is by Costco, the TV almost obsolete anyway and the art, though original, bought on eBay (my favorite piece, a somewhat abstract Tuscan landscape was a whooping $10).
That leaves just a few things to pack – I thought. I never knew how much underwear I had, and books and art supplies and picture frames and I really don’t have very many shoes in the big scheme of things but when put on a pile they kind of add up.
We are really lucky that we can store most of our boxes in a friends spare bedroom. This way we save the money for the storage unit and frankly I also feel a lot better about a bedroom in a nice house than a storage unit somewhere, especially for clothing and Max’s “pets”. We had to limit the number of stuffed animals, or pets, he can take to one and thankfully it was obvious from the start who the winner is going to be. “Bear” who has been his trusted companion basically from the day he was born, will be accompany us on the “Big Trip” and share in our adventures.
I have started thinking what else to take for him to play with and am thinking Lego right now. I am not much of a Lego set person and grew up with a large batch of random pieces that didn’t make any fancy spaceships or police cars but we built awesome, crazy, creative houses and silly but simple vehicles. This sounds about right and doable for a trip.
In the single digits! 9 more days to go – Merida we are coming!! But first hand me that moving box and an bunch more packing paper.