We made it!!!

It has been a busy last few days. Movers spent three days at the house packing things up and moving us out. The movers definitely had their work cut out for them, but things went pretty smoothly over all. We are having just under 500 pounds air shipped to us, which should be here in about two weeks. We have more items being sent over on a boat that will arrive in a couple of months. Most of our things will be stored in Dallas in a storage unit until we return. We are shipping one vehicle that should arrive in two to three weeks. Until then, we have a rental car to get us around the island.

We have had about one showing a day on our house since it went on the market Monday afternoon, and now need to decide between two offers. We are very thankful for that considering it has not even been on the market for a week.

We said goodbye to our car on Wednesday. The husband of the couple who bought it had a sweet Ferrari. He took R for a joyride and let us both sit in it and take a picture. It isn't every day that you will get the chance to sit in or ride in a Ferrari! It was pretty cool!

Talk about waiting until the last minute, about a half hour before the movers finished, and we went to the airport hotel for our flight out, R finally sold his motorcycle!! He was sad to see it go, but relieved that he got the deal wrapped up before we left.

We got a couple of memorable going away gifts. H's BFF's four year old wrote a sweet note to all of us. A few things he mentioned was that he hoped Sophie didn't poop in the sand, and that he hoped R didn't kick Sophie out =) So cute coming from a little guy. I think he is really concerned about Sophie! We also got one last going away meal from our neighbors...one of his famous steaks! They have been so helpful and we are so thankful to have them as neighbors. They also gave us a "contract" that said we had to return to our house in two years, so I guess we will be back in Allen in two years =)

So get this...last night as we are getting ready for bed at the airport hotel (turning in early as we had to be up at 5am to catch the flight) and had the news on the TV. The last bit of the show was the weatherman giving a hurricane update. Seems there is a tropical storm just east of, but heading westbound towards, St. Croix!!! The guy actually mentioned the Virgin Islands are in the storms' path!! What are the chances!! It is supposed to come through on Monday but at this point doesn't appear to be a major storm for us.

So today was the big day. As much as H has been worried about getting Sophie on the plane, it was no problem at all. They didn't as much look at her or ask a single question. She got to sleep in H's lap on both flights and she did so awesome! I'm not sure we want to try our luck again anytime soon, but we were so impressed at how smoothly things went.

We finally arrived at our tropical paradise. We had dinner with our new best friends for the next two years (the other new agent and his wife), and we have already found two hermit crabs crawling around near the house. They are fun because as you approach them they curl into their shell and fall over! Sophie wasn't sure what to think about those guys! Sophie has already taken a stroll along the shore at the house and gone for a dip in the pool! Now we are sitting here with the doors open and the ocean breeze blowing through the house listening to the waves crash on our private beach! We think we can handle this for two years...