We've Arrived

We left Indy around 5:30pm on Friday.  It was late, but couldn't be avoided.  We forgot our plants, but nothing else I don't think.  =(

The trip was ... eventful.  First, we picked up the tow dolly Friday afternoon.  I asked them to hook it up for me.  They did.  Specifically, they did it wrong.  On Emerson on the way home, the dolly popped off the ball and started flailing on the street, connected only by its safety chains.  When I stopped, it became firmly wedged under the truck and there was nothing I could do. I tried flagging people down, asking a couple of teens if I could use their phone, but no one wanted to help.  So I drove it home that way.  Just as I turned on to Riley, it came free.  Rob and I read the manual and reconnected it ourselves and loaded the truck.  It was fine for the trip.  We drove through the night, stopping 3-4 times to eat and walk Dustin, who slept most of the way in the Honda.  Darwin was loose in the cab most of the time... until he tried to plant himself on my lap while I was driving.  I tried to move him, but he was so scared he SOAKED my right leg in pee.  I stopped and hosed off my shorts in a rest stop bathroom so I didn't have to smell it any more.  He stayed in the crate after that.  We stopped in  PA to get the keys from Rob's grandmother's house, then arrived at the new house around 8:30a.  We got the animals inside, unpacked the Fit, unloaded the Nissan from the tow carrier, and tried to return the dolly to Budget.  Instead of returning it, we got bad directions, ended up on a no-outlet street, and couldn't turn around.  I'd never reversed while towing something before, so I didn't want to try.  I used an onlooker's phone to call Budget, who refused to help, so we fumbled the dolly into the same onlooker's driveway, I turned the truck around, and then we reconnected the dolly.  An hour later, we were at risk for running late to meet the unloading helpers, so we went back home.  We met them just in time, and our friends Ed and Alvin, and we unloaded completely in an hour and 20 minutes.  Can you believe it?  Ed and Alvin went out and brought subs back for us.  We waited for the cable guy but he never showed, so we returned the truck. We were in bed around 5:30p.  We slept more or less uninterrupted until 8:30a this morning.  Fortunately, we managed to get connected to the one open network in range, and have a modicum of slow internet access.

And now we begin unpacking.  HUGE THANKS to Lisa and Robert again for all their help loading.  We couldn't have done it without you.