Whew... we're on our way! The movers were so optimistic about finishing in one day, we got our hopes up. We thought surely we'd get out early on day two.... but alas, not the case!

The movers finally finished packing the house at about 5:30pm. The big truck finally got wrenched from the mud at about 5:35pm. They brought in a big tow truck from a local wrecker company and winched it up the driveway.

I finally finished signing the paperwork associated with the movers at about 6:15pm. By then we had no energy left to clean the house and drive to Ohio. So we camped out in the empty house and did the cleaning today.

The toilet in the main bathroom was having persistent problems ever since Stephen and Donald put it back together after installing the flooring. Stephen must have driven to Lowe's and back 4 times getting another part that might solve the leaking problem! I think in the end it finally started working properly.

We didn't get to leave until about 2:20pm for Ohio. The house was clean, the keys had been delivered to the property management company, and the pickup truck had been dropped off at the transport company. This latter item presented the issue of how we were going to get all our last minute trash to the dumpster with only the minivan for transport. When we left the house for the last time we had all of us, all of our stuff, the pets, and three giant bags of garbage crammed into that van. Good thing we got the "extended" variety!

We dropped the garbage at the dumpster 10 miles down the road and that freed up lots of space!

We made it to Ohio only 1.5 hours late for our farewell bbq at Susan's house. It was pooring rain. We ate super hotdogs and potato salad around the firepit under umbrellas! :o)