Well, after three rather stressful days we are now truly live-aboards on our boat. Here is the update on the last few days...
On Wednesday, two car and trailer loads were taken out of the house - one to the boat (which ended up being just a huge pile inside), and the other to Geoff's mom's for storage or later sorting. A huge thank you to Gary for his help in this (and for taking all of our garbage on Friday).
Thursday was an early start as Geoff was down at the boat at 7:30am to get some more work done on the freezer. It seems to be working a bit better now, but it's not perfect yet.
Friday, moving day... a crazy, crazy stressful day.
At around 11am, as we were trying to pack up the remaining piles in the house, we got a call from the lawyer saying that the new buyer had just notified him that we had to get rid of all the cans of wall paint for touch-ups that we left in the basement as a courtesy as he didn't want them - so we had yet another pile of stuff to deal with.
Around noon we realized that we were not going to be able to get things out in time for the 6pm deadline, so a frantic call went out to Justin, who came through and was put to work (more than he expected I'm sure). Thanks, Justin, for helping us! You really went well beyond neighbourly kindness - thank you so much. So after three more car and trailer loads the house was empty at 5:30pm as the new owner showed up to start ripping out the kitchen...
We unloaded some of the items from the car and spent the evening trying to relax with dinner and a drink at the yacht club. Our first night on the boat was great... sooo quiet, even though we didn't sleep much due to the adrenalin still pumping through our bodies.
P.S.: Some photos of the piles of boxes in the boat should be posted in the next few days.
