We finally finished moving! We hired a moving company to do the actual move and saved me from breaking my back, and let me tell you, it was money well spent! The movers were very professional, charged us a flat fee that was very reasonable and never slugged. They even took apart furnitures before the move and assembled them back together after the move for us. We were very happy with their service and would like to recommend them to anyone.

Although the physical move was taken care of, but the hard part of migration was packing and unpacking. Jenny came to help us on Saturday. Even with her help, it took us off and on more than a week to pack up. There were moving boxes everywhere throughout the apartment, and made us wonder how the heck we ever accommodated so much junk?

Oh, want to hear something stupid we did? Well, we forgot to call the utility companies to transfer the electricity/water/garbage/gas. Last Friday night, we took some of our friends over to the new house wanting to show them our new place, only to be greeted by absolute darkness! And guess what? The Santa Clara Municipal Utility company was closed until Monday, so, on house-showing for us! But anyways, Vivian called the utility company this Monday and got everything squared away.

By the way, our runaway MaoMao back! He came back by himself! Vivian already wrote three blog entries on this, so I am not going to repeat it here…