The Move: Day 5 and beyond

We made it to Cincinnati on day 5. I think this was probably the easiest day of them all. Maybe because we had a familiar place as a goal. We got in after 9pm, but it was still light outside so it wasn't bad at all. We spent the night with Grandma and Pop S. On Wednesday, we met Grandpa and Grammy M for brunch before we headed to Pittsburgh to see Grandma and Papa K! This was only a 5 hour drive. The truck was really acting up at this point. It stalled on us in the middle of the highway a few times. It was to the point that I wasn't even comfortable driving it anymore. I was so relieved when we finally made it to Pittsburgh. We called Penske again when we got in. The technician came out and even took it for a drive, but couldn't find anything. We only had 1.5 hours more to go to get to Cresson, so we just kept our fingers crossed.

On Thursday morning, Justin drove the truck, my dad drove his car and my mom and I with Paige drove in another car. At least this time Justin had some backup if something happened with the truck. We all made it to Cresson and immediately started unloading. It took us most of the day along with my parents to get the truck emptied. The house was packed full with boxes. We went to dinner around 8pm and said goodbye to my parents from there. Back at the house, Justin and I cleared out the bedroom enough to get the mattress flat and we called it a night. Paige slept in a playpen the first few nights until we got around to setting up her crib yesterday.

At this point, we have the rooms in pretty decent shape. Livable at least. We have a room dedicated to being a closet/storage that is still pretty tough to get around in, but the main rooms are good. We still don't have Dish Network installed or even our Internet. As I type this, my laptop is on a box next to the window in the storage/closet room so that I can pick up a neighbor's wireless! Hopefully we'll have internet by mid-week. I'm officially back at work today, and this is going to be pretty tough working like this for very long without my own internet!

Check out the July 08 folder on Picasa for pictures from our trip and our first few days in Cresson.