Rollin', rollin', rollin'.........
Ach, du meine Gute! What a process packing turned out to be; selecting what goes and what stays, weighing... and weighing... and then taking things out to meet the 50 pound limit per suitcase, and weighing again. We were weighing the up to the morning we left. I thought Michael was going to develop a hernia from all the lifting and putting down of these gigantic suitcases on and off the scale.
Then there were the pills. It was quite eye opening to see all the pills we had to bring along.These are just some of Michael's. I kept trying to convince myself that it really wasn't that bad because we did, after all, need to bring enough to last for the entire 18 months of our mission, right?
Mission accomplished! Here Michael is with all of our luggage just before we loaded it into the car. It's like traveling with six children; 260 pounds worth! At least they're all on wheels and we can roll them along instead of carry them:-) Michael attached some handy little straps to the large suitcases that allowed us to attach the carry-ons onto the backs of two of them, so then we looked like a family of turtles rolling through the airport. We got a quite a few amused stares and comments.
We flew out of Fresno the day before Thanksgiving and were able to spend it with our daughter Heather and family and daughter Elizabeth and her family. It was so wonderful to be able to spend a few days with them. Today we went to church with the Millers and were able to hear Heather give a beautiful talk in their Sacrament Meeting. After dinner we drove to the MTC in Provo, Utah and moved into the student family apartment where we will stay for a week and a half until we leave for Germany. It's a little weird here right now. We are not actually staying on the MTC campus but a few miles west of it in some married student family apartments, and we are the only people here. Our car is the only one in the parking lot. I hope some more folks will arrive here tomorrow after the regular check in time of 10:00 am.
The way I see it, you have been been given a perfect opportunity to buy all kinds of new things. I think it might be harder to leave my kitchen than my closet. As Grandpa Al would say, you're off like a herd of turtles! (Love the blog's new look!)
ReplyDeleteYou have arrived. Or at least you are at the starting point. Enjoy your time at the MTC. Things should be getting easier now that all the prep work is done.
ReplyDeleteWe are excited for your adventure to begin. Buena suerte - that's "good luck" in Spanish since we don't know German except for gesundheit.
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