Coming Together...

So... everything looks like it's coming together... way too many details to figure out... and with all those details there's way too much money to pay... but it looks like it's all fitting together. The frustrating apartment situation Cori mentioned in the last blog has worked out ok. We were getting ready to go ahead with all the plans to store things and stay with family for 2 weeks... when another unit miraculously opened up that we can move into on the 27th. So now in the last two days we've had the mad rush of getting all the many things in to the apartments that are necessary to be approved. The leasing agent did all the different steps on her end to get us approved... so at around 5:30 last night we got the call that we do in fact have an apartment to move into. Sweet two bedroom apartment (way bigger than our last little place) with all kinds of cool stuff like a fireplace in the living room, work out facilities so we don't have to get a gym membership, an indoor pool so we can swim year round, and a walking trail that we've been told is somewhere behind the apartment complex... we'll have to go exploring for that. The apartment is about 15-20 minutes from the store I'll be working at, and is located in a good location to give Cori lots of opportunities to find jobs.

We've finished with all the reservations we've needed to make... plane tickets to fly me back to Omaha, truck rental so I can drive our stuff from Omaha to Portland, hotel reservations along the way... all those good things. Last night I had lots of fun (sarcasm) setting up all the things like renters insurance, electric, cable and internet... and we're just waiting to hear back from a couple of those with confirmations. Once we get those I think all we've got left is printing all of our many confirmations, reservations, maps and whatnot. Then we get to pack up our carload of stuff again and be ready to head out. We'll keep you posted on all the good stuff (hopefully that rather than bad stuff) as it comes. You should come see us in Portland!