Moving Laurel

We are in the process of moving Laurel cross country, from New Mexico to Virginia, which is my excuse for the sporadic blogging. On Saturday, I flew to New Mexico to help Laurel and her parents pack before the movers arrived on Monday.

Or not. The movers decided to arrive 2 days early, on Saturday morning, catching all of us flat footed. So we had to pay the movers to pack all Laurel's stuff, then load the van. By about 9 PM, they were done loading and out of room in the van, so they gave us an invoice and left. With about 15-20 boxes and a desk still at the house. Hol-eee crap. What now?

We scrambled all day Sunday looking for a U-Haul trailer to tow the rest of the stuff. We managed to obtain and install a tow hitch on Laurel's Jeep, but couldn't come up with a trailer until Monday morning. By the time we got that packed, it was too late to leave, so we waited until Tuesday morning.

Currently, the nine of us are in the midst of a four day trek cross country: Kurt, Laurel, Laurel's mother and father, four dogs (Molly, Maggie, Isabelle, Violet), and little Alison Elizabeth, traveling in utero.