I had expected that we’d be in the same apartment our entire 23-month mission and would have three moves: into the MTC, to Hawaii, back home. Well, we’re adding a fourth … a move to Hau’ula (pronouced ‘how”ooh-lah’. The contract hasn’t been signed, yet, at least as far as we’ve been informed. However, we’re setting up to move on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning next week. We’ll be working the morning shift on Thursday and the afternoon shift on Friday, so that should give us enough time to be moved. The housing coordinator from the Mission is bringing up the Mission’s pickup truck to help with the move.

We’ve been watching a little bit of the Olympics on TV and I’ve noticed some ads from Enterprise Car Rental that they also now rent trucks. I’m going to give them a call to see if we can get a truck larger than a pickup for next week to make the move much faster … perhaps even down to one trip with both vehicles.

Renovation work has started in earnest. Today they started the asbestos abatement in both our garage and the other senior couple’s garage. I’m already missing having a garage to store things. We don’t have a staging area for this move!

We’re stacking boxes in and around the couch. Since the apartment is unfurnished, almost all of the furniture here is going over there. The benefit is that we won’t have to unload and box up drawers. But, there’s still more than plenty of stuff that needs to get into boxes.

BUT! We’ll have a short reprieve from all this move hullabaloo. Heather and Ty are flying in on Monday afternoon on their way back to Mumbai!! They’ll be here a couple of days and leave late morning on Thursday. They’re making a bit of a travel sacrifice for this trip … flying Korean Air from Hawaii to South Korea and then from there to Mumbai. They’ll be in Business Class, so I’m pretty sure they won’t be surrounded by all the Korean tourists bringing all their loot back home. I’ve heard that Business Class is pretty much OK, but Economy can be quite an adventure. It’ll be so very much fun to have them here with us for a couple of days.

So, with that ’til next time. Ta ta for now.