On Saturday, January 17th, Deric and I --with the help of amazing friends!--loaded up a borrowed pick-up truck, horse trailer, and my little VW Cabrio and drove four hours southwest to the small town of Alamosa, CO: Our New Home. We began the day around 8am, hit the road around 12:45pm, arrived in Alamosa around 5:15pm, and fell asleep around 9pm. The Lord blessed us with fabulous and unusually warm weather, hard-working friends who helped us use every single nook and cranny to fit all of our furniture and boxes into one trip, and safe travels. Amazingly, nothing was lost or broken in the move; our only casualty was a plastic trash-can lid, which flew off immediately after we began driving faster than 45 mph. Below are snapshots of our long but good day.
Deric cleaning the kitchen.
Our living room, all packed up.
Our books and bookshelves.
Outside our apartment building.
About an hour into loading, the horse trailer was just about full...
...but we still had more stuff! What a dilemma! Would it all fit in one trip?
These guys didn't think so. Skeptics.
But thanks to ingenuity, Tetris skills, and ratcheting straps, everything fit!!! It was a Beverly-Hillbillies-looking miracle! All we were missing was an old lady to ride atop a chair in the truck bed. :)
The miracle-workers.
The truck, upon arrival in Alamosa.
My car was packed to the hilt!
Jeron and two of his kids helped us unload into our new home. Here's 7-year-old Mandy helping out. :)
Deric fixed our cracked table leg.
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