Whirl Wind

After Nebraska I made my way to Utah to visit the family. I was there for two weeks, playing with my niece and nephew, swimming, riding the Alpine Slide and visiting friends. I felt like I never had a minute alone. I was so excited to get to Texas and have some peace and quit. Peace and quite for me usually turns to depression. Well, my unmedicated ADHD older brother makes sure, that does not happen. Although he was gone for 3 to 4 days at a time we were always running around crazy for the short time he was home. Texas was the last major pit stop before Cairo. I need to get my affairs in order and make a list of all the items I would be taking with me. I don't know how it happened but for some reason, I found an extra box of stuff that I thought I needed to take with me, so we had to go to Walmart and buy and extra bin. My first intention was to take 2 bins. Do you know how hard it is to pack up you whole life into four bins let alone two?  I basically limited myself to clothes, a few small pictures, blankets (so I would not get too home sick) and some toiletries.  I would pack my bags and let them sit for a few days, then I would open them back up, go through the contents again and eliminate unnecessary items. Luckally my mom was able to make it out to Texas for a weekend and help me finallize my packing. We went to a movie, that freaked me out, about the mildle eastern culture, and then spent the night at the ER.  It was stressful but by the end I was feeling good about what was left for me to take. The day before I left Texas my brother took me to a spa and bought me a pedicure, manicure and facial. I was relaxed and ready to go. My bags were packed and bills were paid.

I left America from Newark airport. My brother was going with me on the first leg of my trip. We wanted to have one last adventure before I left so we stayed at a freinds house in Manhatten for two days. We went to "The Adams Family" musical, got a milk shake at Ellen's Diner, saw the Ground Zero Museum, and spent the evening at Don't Tell Mama.  We got to the airport extra early to make sure we had enough time to deal with all of my luggage. There is a company in the airport that will hold your bags for you for a minimal fee, it is a great idea and a life saver but only one  man works the booth so if he is not there when you need your bags you might have to wait and hour or so.

For some reason we had heard that it was $50 dollors a bag and the first 2 where free, but when we checked the luggage it was $50 for the second bag and $150 for each additional bag.  This was going to cost me $350, I was only getting $300 from the school for my moving allowance. Then when I got  to London, they wanted to charge me again because they said "you only paid for them to carry your luggage not us" My eyes about popped out of my head. I am not sure what happened there??  but she gave me everything back and I just walked away.

My wake-up call just came through so I need to get ready for apartment hunting today. I am going to be out of internet for sometime, but will update my adventure soon.