5-12-16---bye bye Florida!

You would think we would have learned from the kids' and hired young bodies to load our truck, too!  But somehow that didn't happen!!  So it was a long, very tiring day!!!  It started out frustratingly when we went to pick up our 18' truck and car trailer from Budget.  Ken went with them because they were cheaper then U-haul.  Now we know why---they may or may not have what you reserve!  Even though we reserved 12 moving blankets over a month in advance, they didn't have any---and didn't bother to tell us in advance that they wouldn't have them.  So I got to make a special trip to Harbor Freights to buy them.  So much for our discounted truck.  But we do get to keep the blankets!  Now we just need to move a few more times.  We dropped the car trailer off by Angie and Josh's house then loaded the rest of the stuff in their garage into our truck, then went to our apartment to finish loading the truck.  Half our garage was also full of their stuff.  At first look, we thought the truck would be way to big, but we managed to fill it pretty well.
They configured the apartments pretty well for moving trucks!

 one of the thousand and one trips down the stairs with stuff.  Did I mention you can hire 2 young dudes to do that for $150!!!!

5-11-16 --- packing up:

Time to get busy packing up.  I didn't figure it would take too long since we've only been here a year and only had a 1 bedroom apartment, but I was a little surprised at how much stuff we did seem to accumulate.
Clothes sort of packed.

 closet somewhat cleared

5-10-16 --- one last trip to Wakodahatchee!

We actually have the apartment until June 2nd, but since we have to be back in St. Louis for a wedding before May 21st, we found an apartment in Buford, Ga. that we can move into on May 14th.   Couldn't see going to the wedding, then going back to Coral Springs just to have to pack up and hit the road again.  So after getting back from Granddog sitting, we only had a couple days before we had to load up our stuff (and the rest of Angie and Josh's stuff), and hit the road again.  But first, I took the time to head back up to Wakodahatchee one last time.  I just hope that by the time we've lived in Georgia this long, I find as many interests there as I have here!
So neat getting to see the wetlands with lots of greenery.

 another young great blue

5-4 through 5-10 --- I'm off to Atlanta to Granddog sit:

The time finally came for Angie and Josh to get the rest of their furniture and officially be done with Florida.  So I flew up to Atlanta to sit with the dogs while they came back to get their stuff.  Angie actually came out a few days earlier and spent most of the time packing.  When Josh flew down on the 4th, I flew up to Atlanta.   Since we were basically passing each other in the air, he drove Angie's car to the airport and left it in a day lot.  Of course, after about of month of beautiful sunny warm weather, severe thunderstorms hit today!  In fact, they loaded the plane, pushed away, then said we were going to sit on the tarmac for an hour or so and wait for the storm to subside.  But it really didn't even get bad while we sat there.  No lightening, just a little drizzle; but lots of dark clouds heading our way.  I guess there was a little break in the weather pattern because all of a sudden they said, buckle up, we're leaving.  The ride through the clouds was quite bumpy, but we made it.

 Where we sat for awhile.

heading through the clouds