Moving update

Our move is really happening! We have some actual boxes packed now, though most of them are still waiting patiently to be filled with stuff. The cats have a reservation at the kennel club (my mom and I are going to fly them out for the big move) and all the little details are falling into place. The real big packing won't happen until the week before we move, because who wants to eat on paper plates for weeks? Also, due to culling our stuff down every time we move, we simply don't have that much stuff. 

The next exciting travel thing is our house hunting trip. On Tuesday Mark and I are flying out to Blacksburg to find a place to live. I'm so excited for this trip for so many reasons. First and foremost, it will be so good to get a lease all figured out and to know exactly where we're going to live. Also, I can't even believe what some of our potential options are. While we don't have very many choices, some of them are double or even triple the square footage of what we currently live in! It is unfathomable. 

I'm also looking forward to just seeing the town. For now, it's been this imaginary place that I've mostly made up based on things I've read online. Going there will help me visualize our new home and make the whole thing a lot more real. Cause, you know, the boxes strewn all over my living room haven't made it real enough. 

It's going to be interesting too for me to "feel" how the flight is from California to Virginia. Between the time change and the connection it's going to be basically a whole day of flying. My attention span can barely handle the short 2.5 hour flights to Seattle. I pity the people sitting near me on the upcoming long flights. Poor, poor Mark. And for those of you who know us both... My mom and I are flying together in May to bring the cats over. That's me, my mom, my two cats, on an airplane for several hours. You just think about that and laugh. 

Once we get back from our house hunting trip, we'll have just a short week to finish packing up, a quick family trip to Vegas, then the movers come and we'll be off on our grand road trip with Steph and Julia! Expect a lot of posts in the coming weeks as this is going to be a huge month for Mark and me!