Moving Day

This past Saturday was our official moving day.  We borrowed Jason & Duana's Element and Shannon's truck and proceeded to pack the remnants of our Seattle life up and out of our Columbia City home. 

Shannon was having a yard sale in a neighborhood with better traffic exposure than ours, so we dropped four car loads of stuff off at her place where her and her friends sold it for us while we continued the move to Jason & Duana's place on Queen Anne. 

We will never be able to repay Shannon for her kindness over this past weekend.  Her time and effort and willingness to help was so very much appreciated.  It was Shannon that inspired us to look at art schools in Scotland for Mike and it is Shannon that keeps us motivated and inspired towards this goal.  She is amazing and we are lucky to know her.

We are also immensely grateful to Jason & Duana for allowing us to invade their space over the next few weeks. They worked hard to give us a place of our own in their home and they have already made us feel welcome and comfortable. We are truly lucky to have friends like them.

Besides making time for dinner with Jason & Duana to celebrate our first night with them, our Saturday was almost entirely spent moving.  We called it a night at around midnight but, although we were seriously wiped out from all the heavy lifting and emotionally draining act of losing everything we've accumulated over the last 13 years, we did take a moment to observe our new surroundings and to celebrate our situation.  We are, after all, on our way to Scotland. 

Sunday morning we were up and out by 7:30AM to finish our move.  We had two car loads for the dump and three car loads for Goodwill before we finished up around noon.  We were exhausted, energized, sad, happy, and thoroughly grateful to our amazing friends for everything they did to help us throughout this process.

All things considered, this process has unfolded amazingly well.  For example, if we didn't rent our house early we would've waited until the last minute to do what we just did, resulting in us living our normal life rather than experiencing this alternate reality which is reminding us of what amazing friends we've made over these past 11 years in Seattle.  Now, because we had to move early, instead of just coasting to our move in August and inevitably forgetting these last few weeks leading up to that move, we're creating memories which we will cherish for a very long time.