Day 30: We're Here!

Pulled into the driveway last night at about 8:30 or 9, with our little U-Haul trailer, a few bags of groceries, and a Domino's pizza. Spent the first 15 minutes walking around the house saying things like, "Hey, I thought there was an actual room here", and "Woo-hoo, the front room is much bigger than I remembered", and "I don't much like the refrigerator."

Then I locked us out of the house.

Fortunately, we had already opened a few windows, so after a few minutes' panic, Paul had a revelation and calmly let himself in through the front room window.

It's still all very surreal. We took a bath together in the giant downstairs tub, large enough that we could both lay down. We just sat there grinning at each other, feeling stupid and a little scared. Then we were awake until well after midnight, talking and dreaming, and making lists in our heads. (Or maybe that was just me.)

Today, we woke up to rain, bullfrogs, and I swear I heard a donkey in the wee hours of the morning. We finished unloading the U-Haul, sorted out the keys, explored the garage attic we didn't know we had, then headed out to a coffee shop 25 minutes away in Essex to catch up on email and such. We won't have internet until Thursday, if all goes well.

OK, time to find a place to drop off the U-Haul. Then we may go look at washers and dryers. Sounds thrilling, I know, but I can't imagine we're going to be just a hop away from a laundromat, so we need to get that taken care of.