On our travels to the new place my partner got a call that we would be getting some new help unloading the truck. Apparently my partner's friend that lived about an hour and a half away had gotten off of work and wanted to come up and help us. This was awesome news, we would have one fresh person joining the team and helping us with four exhausted adults and one child. He was going to meet us at the apartment. My partner gave him a rough estimate to the time of our arrival.
It was very late and we drove to our new apartment completely in a new place, caravanning with three cars. My partner was driving the moving truck and he was going very fast, too fast. I wanted to drive the speed limit and not get pulled over, so I went a bit slower. I was unfamiliar with the roads and driving at night was a challenge in a strange place with hardly any street lamps. I took my time, and I'm sure I slowed everyone down but I had 3 cats in my car. We had stopped on the highway to give one of our cats who was jumping ship and yowling a ton to another vehicle so his box would lay flat and was unable to jump and fall forward. I also had my son in the car and when I have my kids in the car I don't want to be driving crazy. I went the speed limit, and good thing to, because there were speed traps in a few towns we passed through.
When we finally reached our destination it was 9pm. We met up with my partner's friend and were so excited to have a helper who could help with heavy stuff up the stairs. My son was tired but also excited to stay up passed his bedtime and eat donut holes (that my partner's friend had picked up at the local donut shop). We let the cats out one by one in a spare room, gave them a litter box (that we kept at the front of the truck), a food bowl and a bowl of water. We shut the door to keep them contained while we moved stuff into the house.
The first things to get to were the beds so we could go to sleep when the time came, we weren't going to finish this tonight. The neighbors were awake and we had to alert them to our arrival. We apologized for how late we would be working into the night ahead of time. We were supposed to return the rental truck that night too but it wasn't going to happen, we had too much stuff, and we just didn't have the drive to continue any later passed midnight. Our new neighbors had to get rest too and were awaiting the time they could go to bed as well. We just had to do the best we could by removing items and finding a place for them until we could reach the beds. The whole operation was chaotic but we eventually got to the beds, unloaded them, put them in place, put them together, and were able to sleep when the time came. My partner's friend didn't stay the night and went home but would be back the following day to help out again.
We all went to bed about 1am. My son fell asleep right away. Two of the cats were erratic, wondering where they were and two others (who had never been anywhere else besides the home we left behind) were hiding themselves well and keeping quiet. My partner fell right to sleep, but for me it was harder to fall asleep with all this stuff around me to put away. I stayed up a bit longer to do some rearranging and then plopped down to sleep about 2am. I had trouble falling asleep at first, strange place of course and I was not happy with the size of the apartment. It was too small, I was wondering if this place would suit us, but it was only temporary, I had to remember that.
It was very late and we drove to our new apartment completely in a new place, caravanning with three cars. My partner was driving the moving truck and he was going very fast, too fast. I wanted to drive the speed limit and not get pulled over, so I went a bit slower. I was unfamiliar with the roads and driving at night was a challenge in a strange place with hardly any street lamps. I took my time, and I'm sure I slowed everyone down but I had 3 cats in my car. We had stopped on the highway to give one of our cats who was jumping ship and yowling a ton to another vehicle so his box would lay flat and was unable to jump and fall forward. I also had my son in the car and when I have my kids in the car I don't want to be driving crazy. I went the speed limit, and good thing to, because there were speed traps in a few towns we passed through.
When we finally reached our destination it was 9pm. We met up with my partner's friend and were so excited to have a helper who could help with heavy stuff up the stairs. My son was tired but also excited to stay up passed his bedtime and eat donut holes (that my partner's friend had picked up at the local donut shop). We let the cats out one by one in a spare room, gave them a litter box (that we kept at the front of the truck), a food bowl and a bowl of water. We shut the door to keep them contained while we moved stuff into the house.
The first things to get to were the beds so we could go to sleep when the time came, we weren't going to finish this tonight. The neighbors were awake and we had to alert them to our arrival. We apologized for how late we would be working into the night ahead of time. We were supposed to return the rental truck that night too but it wasn't going to happen, we had too much stuff, and we just didn't have the drive to continue any later passed midnight. Our new neighbors had to get rest too and were awaiting the time they could go to bed as well. We just had to do the best we could by removing items and finding a place for them until we could reach the beds. The whole operation was chaotic but we eventually got to the beds, unloaded them, put them in place, put them together, and were able to sleep when the time came. My partner's friend didn't stay the night and went home but would be back the following day to help out again.
We all went to bed about 1am. My son fell asleep right away. Two of the cats were erratic, wondering where they were and two others (who had never been anywhere else besides the home we left behind) were hiding themselves well and keeping quiet. My partner fell right to sleep, but for me it was harder to fall asleep with all this stuff around me to put away. I stayed up a bit longer to do some rearranging and then plopped down to sleep about 2am. I had trouble falling asleep at first, strange place of course and I was not happy with the size of the apartment. It was too small, I was wondering if this place would suit us, but it was only temporary, I had to remember that.
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