Phew! It's been busy...

The days are flying by at an alarming rate at the moment. We are on the go constantly with very little time to stop and smell the coffee...so let me give you a quick update on what's being going on in the past few days.

Wednesday: Panic set in. Spent time sorting "stuff". Rental furniture picked up. Went to work. Came home and sorted more "stuff".

Thursday: Packers arrived. Had to halve air shipment. Retrieved shoes/jackets/kitchen roll from ground freight boxes. Checked into hotel. Went to leaving party. Went for drinks.

Friday: Woke up with hangover. Back to house to meet packers. Stuff loaded onto truck. Stephen returned car and picked up rental car. Lunch with Morag. Began cleaning. Stephen returned comcast equipment and went back to car dealer to pick up the stuff he'd left in the car. Dropped some stuff off with British couple recently moved here. Back to hotel. Dinner (fab!). Met the newlyweds for drinks. Back to hotel totally exhausted.

Saturday: Back to house to finish cleaning. Got grumpy coz tired and hungry. Dropped boxes of stuff off with the newlyweds. Went to Le Madelaine for lunch. Back to house for more cleaning. Valet parking chaos at the hotel. Car park gridlocked. Big delays getting car back. Down to Morag and Simon's for dinner. Back to hotel exhausted.

Sunday: Brunch at the hotel. Back to house for final clear out of remaining stuff. Said goodbye to neighbours. Walked round Old Town. Had last ice cream in Pop's. Went to Rudy & Carol's for show and tell of 3,500 holiday photos. Dropped BBQ gas canisters off at Lowes. Back to hotel. Taxi to O'Connells to meet Morag & Simon for drinks and dinner...and more drinks...Farewells. Tears.

Monday: Woke up with hangover. Had coffee. Down to house for final handover of keys. Off to bank to move money to the UK. Into work. Final goodbyes. Tears. Back to bank to pay in cheque and bags of change. Back to hotel. Repack luggage to try and get it down below 42 pieces.

So there you have it...in a nutshell...what's been going on for the past few days. We're both pretty exhausted now. We don't seem to get a full nights sleep at the moment. Someone called Stephen's UK cell phone at 05:30 this morning and woke us both, and once my sleep is disturbed I find it difficult to get back into a good sleep. He had better switch it off tonight....