So this is it, the much anticipated moving fiasco story. As many of you are aware, this started in Hanover PA, when the moving truck showed up 11 hours later than what they had originally said. Erica and I made it easy on them, because all of our stuff was already in the garage (minus the bed,) all they had to do was to move it onto the truck. 3 weeks go by of sleeping on the floor and eating nothing but frozen meals (not as glamorous as it sounds,) and all we got was: "oh yeah, I'll have the driver call you tomorrow." No dice. Almost daily we had to call to check on the progress. Finally we have a date, Friday afternoon. Since Erica had to work, we requested that the driver calls us an hour before hand so she can leave work and make sure we're ready. Erica received a call from the driver at 4PM saying "I'm here and the truck won't fit in your complex". Ugh! The driver then demanded that we figure out a way to get our stuff from the truck and into our apartment (a.k.a. rent a u-haul and do it ourselves). The truck driver was EXTREMELY rude through the whole process even calling Greg to tell him we needed to hurry up, not to waste his time and informing us he had other customers waiting. Jerk. So from work, Erica reserved a U-Haul truck, left work early, picked Greg up and met the Driver in the parking lot of a Walmart just down the street. We weren't allowed to inspect any of the boxes or our furniture so Erica made sure to write a statement saying they were liable for anything that was broken. Did I mention that it is raining cats and dogs? Now that we finally had our belongings in our possession we picked up Chinese food and LOTS of beer for the long night ahead. We got everything up to our apartment in a timely manner only to realize that one of our couches wouldn't fit through the door. We were exhausted and decided to leave the couch in the hallway overnight until we could figure out what to do. Luckily we have some nice neighbors who helped us squeeze it in.
It was a pretty awful experience but we are glad to have all of our belongings! We are working on getting some money back from the moving company since they didn't really do anything to help us move. A few nasty phone calls and letters are in the works.
Now that everything is organized and decorated we are excited to invite people over and have visitors! We have been cooking and baking a ton to make up for all of the boring frozen meals. We made Sam Adams Tomato Curry Chicken which was amazing! Tonight is Chicken and Stuffing Bake.
That's all for the moving fiasco! We have plenty more fun stories to tell but we'll save that for another time! Love to all!