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!!!!

 Did I mention we're getting old!!!!

 still a lot to load!

 I tried to keep filling the garage while Ken loaded the truck.

 time to disconnect the tv and return the cable boxes.

 a record of some of our shows we have recorded to remind us to On Demand them when we have cable again.

 10 hours later and almost done. 

 the truck is loaded.

 I even cleaned.

 vacuumed, scrubbed walls, ...

 cleaned counters, stove, ...

 even the fridge--------

 now I wonder why.  We were still charged a cleaning fee on top of  the carpet cleaning fee.

 bikes loaded and ready to go.  We decided instead of sleeping on the floor, we'd just hit the kids' pool one last time, then hit the road to Atlanta.

The pool felt sooooo good!!!!  Sure going to miss that! 

About 9 pm we jumped in the truck and took off.  Stopped a couple of times in the middle of the night to cat nap---amazing how busy Walmart parking lots are at 3 am!  Finally got to Angie and Josh's rental house in Sawanee in the morning.
Thus ends my Florida living blog!!!!
Stayed tuned for my new Georgia one--- "From Beaches to Peaches"