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Monday, June 20, 2005

The Incredibles

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Man, you should have seen them! It was incredible!

We got the truck to the house just before noon. A few minutes later Tammy (Steve’s sister), and her three daughters Sam, Abby and Margaret were there to help us. Sam’s boyfriend Blake was there too.


The truck we used. It was surprising that we actually filled the thing.

Reinforcement vehicles

We hadn’t completely packed yet so we still had some stuff to take apart before loading it onto the truck. We moved quick—we started at noon and were done loading stuff by 1:30. By that time, Blake’s brother Caleb had also joined the party.

If you think THAT’S amazing, wait til I tell you what happened at the apartment :-).

On to the apartment!


Just to recap what we decided to do, we decided to have a contest: the Road Runner Award goes to whoever carries the most items into the apartment by 5pm. The Strong Man/Woman Award goes to whoever carries the most number of pounds into the apartment by 5pm. We also taped numbers to the boxes so whenever someone carries a box into the apartment, they tear off the number so that number could be put into a box for a raffle. Steve and I bought all sorts of smaller (although still cool) prizes. Our goal was for no one to leave the party empty handed :-).

We officially started the game when we got there. You should’ve SEEN those kids! They were zooming up three flights of stairs carrying two, three boxes at a time. They really wanted to win. I had to tell them, “Take a break!” but they just kept on going. The two boys were unbelievable. They would carry dressers and assembled cabinets and the mattress… and they were just as excited about tearing the numbers off the boxes so they could put those in the raffle :-).

I told you that it took us an hour and a half to get things loaded INTO the truck, right? Well, to get everything OUT of the truck and UP three flights of stairs and INTO the apartment, it took them just a little over an hour. Is that incredible or what? It took us longer to put stuff into the truck than to get stuff into the apartment. We were done by like, 4:15. 4 hours and 15 minutes to get everything done, and that included a leisurely lunch at Subway. Tammy said, “That was the fastest move I’ve ever been involved in :-).”

If you’re interested in the results, Margaret won Road Runner, Blake won Strong Man, and *everyone* got prizes from the raffle :-).

The most important thing to me was at the end of the day, when it was time for everyone to leave, they said, “It was fun!”


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