Last week I had lunches and dinners pretty much every day and night to try and say goodbye to everyone in Dallas. It's was nonstop and I tried to just focus on each moment with each person rather than dwell on the saying goodbye part. I got to go to some cool restaurants in the process. Nosh Euro Bistro in Plano with my parents, Meddlesome Moth in the Dallas design district with friends, Hattie's in the Bishop Arts District with the partners from my firm and Breadwinners in Dallas with friends. Also got one last taste of some local favorites like Picasso's pizza and Chuy's before we left.
Thursday night Victor came into town to help me make the final move up to Oregon. We also sold our car on Thursday night since we decided we didn't want to drive it up to Oregon. That took a couple hours so afterwards we just had dinner with my parents at home.
Friday was my last day at my firm in Dallas that I've spent the last 5 1/2 years at. It was my first job out of college and a place I saw myself at for the long haul. Long story short it was heartbreaking to say goodbye to all the great people there. I'm not a big cryer, but there were definitely tears on Friday! I'll miss that place a lot, but I'll be stopping by when we are back in Dallas for thanksgiving this year!
Friday night we hung out with my parents and finished packing. Saturday morning it was time to go to the airport. We gave the dogs their Benadryl and packed up the car. Flying with dogs is an experience I will not try again unless I have to. Even with the Benadryl the girls were pretty freaked out. Here's some pictures from the airport check in.
Jelly is traumatized.
So the flight was fine, it actually went by really fast and it wasn't too bumpy.
One of the great things about the Portland airport is how fast you get to your gate and how fast the bags come out. We were off the plane and had bags in hand before our scheduled arrival time! However, the dogs took FOREVER to come out. It probably only took twenty or thirty minutes but felt like much longer because we were starting to panic. In the end, the girls were fine and neither had any accidents in their crates during the trip. I was quite impressed! So we loaded up the car and headed home. Amazingly we fit two dogs, two adults, four suitcases and two carry on size bags in the Equinox. Awesome!
We spent the rest of Saturday unpacking boxes and hanging out. After the dogs got some food and water they passed out for most of the day. Jelly was pretty freaked out by the wood floors on our main floor. I think it's the noise her paws make when she walks that she doesn't like. She's fine on the carpeted areas. But by day three she's gotten used to them!
Here are the dogs getting introduced to the backyard. I know it's kinda gross to show a pic of my dog peeing but this is the only one I got with both dogs. They were running around like crazy and only stopped to pee :)
So this brings me to our first surprise of the weekend.
See these piles of dirt? Yep, we have a mole problem. There are six or seven of these big piles in our yard. We also have a bunny problem. The bunnies aren't doing any damage other than taking little bunny poops in the yard which Peanut Butter finds delicious. Sorry that's gross, but it's my life. So we went to HD and got mole traps and will see how that works.
On Sunday we got up and unpacked some more boxes and then headed to the Mini dealership to get my car.
It's pretty awesome! We didn't drive around too much because we wanted to get back to the house and get some more boxes unpacked :) we spent the rest of the day unpacking and victor got the grill put together.
Which brings me to our next surprise. When the movers delivered our washing machine they noticed that one of the feet is broken. They stuffed something under it to try and balance it out and told us to try it and see how it is. So yesterday I did three small loads with no problem. Then last night I went to wash two pillows for our guest room and... Water everywhere! So unless we can get it fixed, we might be getting a new washer. I'm in a little bit of a panic because we already have piles and piles of things to wash and no washing machine, but we'll survive. Luckily the first three loads I did were the guest room sheets so that is all set for my parents to come up on Thursday. Phew!
So it's day three and here's what one of our moving box graveyards looks like.
So many boxes!
Tomorrow will be exciting as we have a few people coming up to install some things and hopefully we get the washing machine situation figured out soon.
I hope you all are enjoying your Memorial day weekend! We're working hard, exhausted, but so far enjoying the new home despite the surprises!
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