Well, after a few months of planning and a hectic month of lining things up I’m back in Minnesota!
Overall, the move went really smooth. After getting everything set up and slowly getting everything packed up and ready to go for the move, I started the heavy lifting on Friday (May 30th) by packing up the last of the little stuff I could in my apartment and starting to clean everything in the apartment. After getting about 90% through the cleaning of the apartment I headed to bed around 2am and set my alarm for 7:30 the next morning.
The next morning (the 31st) I got up early and headed down to the U-haul place. They set me up with the 17 foot truck I had reserved and I hooked up the car trailer behind it. Although I did have to leave my car there, even though they told me that they did a ramp for loading the cars onto the trailer multiple times (right up to the point where I needed to put it on the trailer).
So anyways, I got the uhaul and started to pack up the back of it with all the little stuff before Brooks and Jill showed up to help me with the big stuff. That part went way faster than I thought it would. So after we got done packing up and loading my car onto the trailer, I quickly finished up the cleaning and was out of there! (by around 2:00 pm).
This was probably the longest (in actual time) it ever took me to get to Rochester. The longest trip (in the amount of time it felt like) was when I came over to surprise Lisa for our first date, that trip felt like 9 hours. But this trip took me about 4 hours. After a few stops to re-adjust the wheel straps on the trailer and figure out exactly how they went on, the trip was a little quicker.
So around 6 or 6:30 I got in to Rochester. For the last week it has been a whirlwind of unpacking setting things up and a little bit of work spread in there too. Now, this weekend it started to feel a little more relaxing and a little more like home.
I suppose this is enough for now. I think I’m going to try to convince my girl to go down stairs with me and watch a movie. Although I am kinda enjoying my entertainment now, I’m getting a very nice serenade by my girl on her guitar while I sit here and type.
