Moving is always an adventure and this move was no exception. On Friday, June 28th we picked up the biggest truck that Penske had along with a trailer to haul Ryan's car on. We started to load and clean the house as soon as we got everything ready to go. Later in the evening we had lots of help from our ward friends who came and loaded the truck in a couple of hours: Brother Bautista and Brother Holdaway, Nate Tracey (the pack master), Brandon and Anne Evans, and the Byrne's Family. Ryan was working all day to load and truck and he was tired by the end of the day.
Our goal was to leave as soon as we could on Saturday, June 29th, but it seems that nothing ever goes according to plan and we didn't leave until 4 PM. Once we got on the road we made good time though. We were on the outskirts of Chicago around midnight and we decided that it would be best to drive through Chicago before we stopped for the night so we kept driving.
Around 1 AM we started to look for a hotel and to our luck there was some event going on and there were no rooms. So we kept driving and stopping to try and find a place to stay. This happened to us on our drive when we moved to Cleveland four years ago. Just after 2 we stopped one more time and we still couldn't find a place to stay so we decided to park and sleep in the car and moving truck. Nathanial and Ryan slept pretty well in the moving truck and Christopher, Emily, and I slept in the van.
We woke up around 6 AM and decided that we weren't tired enough to sleep anymore so we headed to a store to use the bathroom and to pick up something for breakfast and started to drive again.
The boys took turns riding in the moving truck with Ryan.
We arrived in Sioux City just after 4 PM on Sunday, June 30th. We met with our realtor to get our keys and to start to move in.
The office that Ryan was going to work for told us that they would have a crew come at 5 to help us unload our truck. We weren't sure how many people would be there so we also informed our ward to help us too. With all the help that was enlisted we had our truck unloaded and everything in our house in an hour.
Ryan put together everyone's beds so that we would have somewhere to sleep for the night and the next morning the real work began as we started to unpack all our boxes.
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