Safe and Sound in NC

After a very long week, we are all moved in to our new house in North Carolina. We were fortunate to get one of the newly renovated houses on base, conveniently located about 1.5 miles from Kevin's work, about 3 miles from the grocery store, and maybe 5 miles from the grocery store.

Kevin's younger brother Jason drove down to South Carolina last weekend to visit with us and help Kevin pack the moving truck. The plan was to get on the road Tuesday morning for the 6 hour drive to our new house in North Carolina. Kevin started out ahead of Stacy since his 22 foot moving truck topped off at 70 mph. Stacy and Meghan started out about 30 minutes later. Everyone was making good time. Stacy actually passed Kevin and was about 30 minutes ahead of him when the VW broke down.

On I-95.
Somewhere in SC.
With Meghan in the car.

We were fortunate to get a quick tow to a small garage in the town of Manning, SC. Meghan had fallen asleep while waiting for the tow truck. We moved her- still asleep and still in her car seat- to the cab of Kevin's moving truck while Stacy rode in the tow truck. We spent the night at a nearby hotel while the garage waited in parts for the car.

The next day we tried to waste as much time as possible waiting for the car to be fixed. Jason drove up to meet us in Manning, SC to help in case Stacy's car couldn't be fixed. The part was supposed to be in by 2 PM so everyone got lunch and hung out near the garage. Kevin got on the road around 2:30 in the moving truck while Stacy, Meghan and Jason waited for the part to arrive.

At 4:00, the garage notified us that "they ordered the correct part, but the wrong part arrived." Oh by the way, the earliest they could get the correct part would be Friday. So, we loaded everything from Stacy's car into Jason's Jeep Cherokee and started the rest of our trip north.

Kevin got to the house around 8PM and started unloading boxes. Jason, Stacy & Meghan arrived about 10 PM. The boys unloaded the rest of the furniture while Stacy tried to get Meghan to bed.

It was a very long week. We started unpacking some of the boxes, but most will just have to wait until next week when we all have a little more energy.

On a good note, the part did arrive at the garage down in SC and Stacy's VW is finally fixed!