Westward

We left Colorado today. We’re in San Francisco until Tuesday the 4th staying at Andrea’s place. Andrea is Amy’s best friend. She lives in a very nice single bedroom apartment on the third floor of an old building in the Marina district. Did we mention that it’s a very nice apartment with lots of beautiful breakable things? Beck’s helping us spot all of them. He’s good that way.

It was a little crazy leaving Denver. We had stuff from the house that we hadn’t figured out what to do with. We were up late organizing stuff, and the kids were up early the next day organizing us.

Here’s all of our luggage excluding the two car seats.

Homeless

Well, we closed on our house today, so now we're officially homeless. Everything went fine. We rushed to the bank to deposit the closing check before enjoying our last lunch in Boulder at Sherpa's Restaurant. We'll miss their great tasting chai and naan.

We left Boulder for the last time, since we're staying with Amy's parents in Lakewood. The emotions of leaving friends, family, and a place that we enjoyed living, hit Amy hard yesterday. She's been feeling the heartache quite intensely. Although she also feels the excitement.

We're very busy getting the last few things sorted and trying to see friends before we leave. Amy met Jen, her childhood friend since age 5, to take pictures at the photo booth at Southwest Plaza. It's been a tradition of their's since they were about 9 years old.

The kids are handling the move much better than we expected. I was very hesitant to show our 4 year old daughter, Quinne, our empty house. I thought it would be traumatic to see our home with nothing in it. I expected her to cry over her missing toys and bed and everything familiar. I'm pleased to say that I was completely wrong. She walked in and loved the open space to run and dance in. She kept saying "where's our house". I explained that this is our house and our stuff is packed up, but she kept asking where our house was. I knew that she was wondering where our home was, but she didn't ponder it for too long.

We took Quinne to say goodbye to the family who bought our house. They lived down the street (until yesterday) and Quinne loved to play with Leigha and Sean. Here's a picture of the goodbye. They promised to write to each other. At least we won't have to look up the address.



NanaPopPop watched the kids today while we were at the closing. They reported that Beck took 13 steps - a new personal best. A perfect time to board the long airplane ride to New Zealand.

Packed up

Our belongings are now in this truck on their way to storage. It looks like everything will fit in a 20' container.

Hiring movers is one of the best investments so far. You can never be ready for them to start packing though. We just realized that they packed the high speed internet equipment that we're supposed to return to our internet provider when we cancel their service. The movers scoop up and pack everything in their path. We shudder to consider what we'll discover when we unpack our stuff.



Another step along the way.

On Our Way

Welcome to our blog! Here you'll find information about the Weber's tour of New Zealand.

Here's the progress so far:

We're still in Colorado at Amy's Dad and stepmother's house, and leave in one week for San Francisco. We'll stay there for a few days visiting with Andrea and Amy's cousins and aunties, then leave for New Zealand on the 4th of December. In our last few days here we'll be busy cleaning the house, closing on Tuesday, and saying goodbyes to our friends and loved ones.

Oliver has handed his notice in at work and his last day will be Monday, November 26. Now he's not sure what to do with all of his suits and ties. Padding for packing the china and glassware perhaps?

We sold the Subaru (yesterday) and still have the Mini and a few other items to get rid of and sell (anyone want an antique pie safe, a color wheel for an old aluminium Christmas tree, or loads and loads of paper to be recycled?). As we lighten our load, and have fewer and possessions we begin to feel more free. We can't believe the amount of stuff we donated, gave away, and sold. Slowly we're getting there. It feels good.

The house is packed up and our stuff will be moved into storage tomorrow. It boggles our brains how three men were able to pack up our entire home in three hours. However they did it, it was well worth the investment. It would have taken us three weeks to do, and much more frustration.

We can't believe we're this far along in the adventure so far. It feels like somebody else's life. We're excited to be doing what we're doing, and feel grateful that everything has worked out so far.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. We're grateful to have you in our lives and for your support in our adventure.