So...in our last weeks of preparation for departure we have had to cross off multiple page long to-do lists, pack more boxes and ship them to Hawaii.
It's hard to pack up weird things such as nail polishes! I have so many I couldn't part with them. So I bubble wrapped em all!
It's hard to pack up weird things such as nail polishes! I have so many I couldn't part with them. So I bubble wrapped em all!
Eric loved carrying in all the boxes!
I decorated a few boxes :)
The one that had all my favorite dresses and shoes was labeled "HANDLE WITH CARE...MAHALO" (which means thank you)
All in ALL we only had 17 boxes!!! Not bad huh!!! However, the boxes were about 60 pounds each! For a grand total of 1,020 pounds of who knows what!!! A HUGE thank you to our friends in Maui Kim & Jason who were in charge of picking up all these boxes and storing them in our room at their house! And another HUGE thank you to our friend Jason who got us all our huge FREE boxes from good ol Copley! THANK YOU ALL!
ASIDE for the over 1,000 pounds of personal items we shipped......how the heck were we going to get around the Island once we got there????? WHAT more perfect of a car then our little mini cooper convertible!! So, we had to ship her Nov. 18th from St Louis. Eric drove and met me & my girlfriend so we could drop off the car. The mini was then put on a truck to make her way to San Diego where she will then be put on a ship Dec 9th and sent off to the Islands. Her tentative arrival date in Maui is Dec 21st!!! She will love having her top down permanently!!
Incase you're wondering that is a bumper sticker of the Hawaiian Islands -- it is not the paint chipping!
We have also sold our car to keep it in the family!! We had originally planned to sell the Pilot at carmax in Phoenix but it has worked out perfectly that Eric's sister Ellen is buying it!! Her and her husband are meeting us in Phoenix the night before we leave to drive us to the airport and then they take the Pilot back to Illinois !
Pilot said goodbye to her lil sis :(
I also began receving letters in the mail from the 7 applications I filled out at the only hospital on the Island!!
I qualified for 6 out of the 7 positions and so far I have 2 job interviews set up for the Monday after we arrive!! One is for ICU and the other for post-op surgery!! We shall see!!
Aside from all the shipping, paperwork and to-do lists ... we will also have to say good bye to some amazing friends, family & doggies. Those are going to be the hardest of all.
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