One Week to Go...

days to go!

Well, we have one week to go until the big adventure begins! We've been living with a card table and four chairs as our only furniture since November 11th, when we put everything into storage. We were sleeping on mattresses on the floor until November 18th, when Salvation Army picked them up (Salvation Army doesn't pick up during the week of Thanksgiving, so we had to let them go sooner). The hubby and I managed one night on a pallet on the floor, before we went and retrieved the blow-up bed from storage! The kids don't seem to mind sleeping on the floor, but our old bodies didn't care much for it! Thanks goodness we only have four more nights on the blow-up bed! We'll be in a hotel the last weekend here, so I can clean our apartment before we turn in the keys. The kids get to go to their grandparent's house tomorrow night, so they get a real bed (not to mention TV and internet) before we do ;p

Storage, and the donation pick-up, happened with zero issues. So we've been sitting around finishing up schoolwork before Thanksgiving break. We're taking almost three weeks off for the move to Florida, and a week in Orlando to enjoy Universal Studios as a mini vacation. I've started cleaning already, but there is only so much I can clean until the kids get out of here (or I just have to clean it again). We are looking forward to getting to Saturday, to the hotel, so we have TV, internet, and beds again for a little while.

We've already been in touch with a boat broker. He has a few catamarans lined up for us to see on our way to Florida, and of course a whole bunch more when we get there. With any luck, we will have a boat lined up by mid-January, with plenty of time to head south before hurricane season. It has been really nice to be able to focus more on boat related stuff, and less on the stuff here. 

The hubby only has a day and a half of work left. Everyday he gets home, he throws away a pair of pants and a shirt that he will never have to wear again! We are getting very excited as everything falls into place as planned. We sit around our card table talking for hours about boat stuff. It's turned cold here, so we watch the Florida weather (where it's twenty degrees warmer) to make ourselves feel better! We can't wait to roll out of here in a week! If you see a black Durango hauling a tiny U-Haul trailer east out of Dallas next Tuesday morning early, it might be us! If you hear a squalling cat coming from the back of the Durango, it will definitely be us! Wish us luck, 'cause it's too late to turn back now!!!