Unpacking!

Hi Everyone,

We're still working on getting in the habit of updating the blog on a more regular basis. We're hoping to have everything caught up this week and then we can just jump on and give everyone quick little updates and anecdotes as we go.

Folks have been asking to see the new apartment and how the unpacking process went. Well the good news was that the truck was there waiting for us when we arrived in Marina Del Rey. Most of the stuff we packed was even intact! 

We had a good crew of friends helping us unload the truck, who busted their butts for 6 or so hours to get everything up to the apartment. The main pain in the butt was walking the items around the back of the building and through the labyrinth that is the inside of our building. 

Here's some shots of the new apartment immediately after we got all of the crap into it:)

The packing took approximately three days after we got everything inside. It involved a lot of shifting of items from room A to room B in order to organize room A. Then reverse and repeat the process. Plus trying to set up our internet and TV, each which took more hours than we were told to expect. And then calling in maintenance to activate more than the two phone outlets we had working. You can see here how much Fil loves unpacking. Please note the monkey t-shirt. 

The cats were also working very hard to help out. 

When they weren't looking demonic or hiding in boxes... or both.

Also for those of you curious, here's a shot of our car after our cross country trek. The pictures don't even do it justice as to how utterly filthy it was. It was so bad, that we didn't want to touch the car to open the back hatch because we ended up with dirt and road nastiness on our fingers every time. Last week we finally got it to a car wash for a great hand wash service. The guys at the car wash scrubbed it clean, dried it off lovingly with towels and gave it a protective coat of wax. Blue Steel feels much better now:)

In the next day or two we'll get some pictures up of the now pretty much finished and unpacked apartment. The final touches of hanging up shelves and photos was done this past weekend so the place is starting to feel like home. 

We miss you all!