When we left Ohio on Thursday, we drove six hours to my parent's house in Pennsylvania.... well, it should have taken six hours. It took a whole lot longer with a Uhaul towing a car. We had a lot of furniture and my classroom supplies to drop off in their barn for storage. But because of the way we had to load it, we had to take everything out of the truck to separate the storage boxes from the boxes going to Maine. As if loading a truck once wasn't enough.
We heading up to Maine at the butt crack of dawn on Saturday. My brother, Chad was coming along to drive the Uhaul and help us unload it. It was nice chatting with him during the ride up, which of course took a lot longer than I expected. Apparently, I am terrible at judging lengths of time. The eight hour drive I was expecting turned into a ten hour drive. Alas, we got there safely but completely exhausted.
Unloading went better than we anticipated and we finished with time to spare. It was fun having Chad along and I'm glad it worked out for him to come up. Does he count as a visitor if he arrived the same time we did? I think he counts as our first official guest. We dropped him off at the airport in Boston on Sunday night. I think he should have stayed until everything was set up and put away! :)
I don't think it hit me that we were alone in our new state until we dropped Chad off at the airport. It was a feeling of homesickness even though honestly, I've never considered Ohio to be "home". Chad was the last person I had to say goodbye to so it felt more real once I watched him walk away. Suddenly, it was just us coming back to our apartment with boxes everywhere. I am ready to get everything put away and organized so we can get on with regular life, explore the area, and hopefully start meeting people!
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