Packing out

So last Monday (the 14) we packed our big shipment of household goods...pretty much everything we own. We kept out some clothes, sheets, blankets, pillows, kitchen things, a few of Josh's toys, and some other random stuff, but everything else (all our furniture) is gone. Poor Josh had to endure almost an hour of the packers packing things up, and was fairly traumatized, but then spent the day with Shannon and Brennan. These pix are kindof backwards, so you'll have to read the captions.
No table and chairs, so we had picnics on the floor...Gus really enjoyed being closer to the food!
What was left in our living room...mostly trash
The living room halfway through packing it up.
The wooden crates in this truck are what they put our stuff into...then they caulked the lids on and nailed them shut. We used 6, plus a box slightly taller than the crates for our couch. They estimated it was around 8,000-9,000 lbs.
The big rolls of paper stuff they would wrap around odd shaped things and make a neat little (or big!) package. They went through several rolls of this and several boxes of tape.
While they were packing, we found Gus's first toy we ever bought for him, this stuffed puppy with rope arms and legs...it had a hole in it, but was intact other than that...in about 5 min. this is all that was left of it...note the black ear and brown pieces that used to be the doggie's head...poor doggie!
More picnic pictures
Our kitchen right before the packers got there.
The office before the packers got there.
Our bathroom, which is where we put all the stuff we wanted to keep. It was pretty much filled completely.
Our bedroom...hard to believe everything fit into these nice little bundles.

Josh getting one last play in his toy box the night before we packed out.
We rented a carpet cleaner and cleaned our rugs, which are now several shades lighter, and this is our huge living room rug partway rolled up. Josh thought it was a good toy, until he fell off!

Part of our map record of where we've been...color coded by AJ.
Our living room before the movers came.

So now we've got some loaner furniture until Wed. the 30th when we move out of the house completely and into TLF's (temporary living facilities) on base for the last 5 days. Then we fly out noonish on the 6th, spend the night in Baltimore (where the military charter flight will get us to) because we don't have time to get our stuff and the dog and get through customs and then check back in for our continental flight to Houston. So we fly out the next morning around 7 am and get to Houston around 0930. We'll be there for just over a week, then AJ has to head up to Altus, OK to train up on his new jet, the C-17, and Josh and I will be staying a bit longer, then probably heading up to join him sometime early June or so. He's in training until the end of August-ish, and then we finally head to Charleston, SC!
OK, that's the news on the move. I'm just ready for it to be over.