We just spent the first night in our new home. Leilani and Andy are still sleeping, 5 of our 6 huge suitcases are unpacked. It is nice here, really feels like home. Not too cold either.
After a last packing session that lasted until 2am, Andy finally closed the container and we slept 4 hours in the office where we put the guest bed. In the morning, I picked up Leilani who’d spent the night at Joy’s, and we watched Terminix start to tent the house. Andy and Leilani set of to meet A’alapua’s new owner and Sandy, the cats and I went directly to the airport. Sandy who had helped us with packing and cleaning gave us moral support and fed us camomille – which worked surprisingly well on the cats and me. Leilani is used to the stuff already, but she was good enough anyway, just very excited. We got compliments on her being the best in-flight kid again!
The flight was thankfully uneventful, the cats were quiet and Leilani and I slept for a little while. We all played with Andy’s new iPhone, Leilani watched the Jungle Book and got read the Aristocats over and over, and some of her National Geographics magazines. We loaded our stuff onto 2 (!!) luggage carts that were hopelessly overloaded, a nice traffic controller policeman helped us pull it to the taxi stands and we got it all into a minivan and went home–one advantage of living close to the airport.
The cats went hiding under the bed, and Leilani ran around wanted to see everything and had 3 times as much energy as Andy and I together, she loves her new playhouse and her big bed – she has a really nice bed this time, we left her ugly one. First thing I had to set up was my Mac, especially since Leilani tripped over a cable in the final packing stages and pulled the 2 external harddrives over and both of them hit pretty hard–I am happy to say all is working perfectly!
This morning the cats are already out, walking around with their tails up, and I can hear Leilani waking up…
