Finished Packing

Finally done! Yes, unbelievable, but it is true. Three europallets are packed, each 1.60 m high, between 160 kg and 300 kg heavy. Sealed with foil and heavy duty strap - thus nothing can go in or out anymore. Everything that did not make it inside stays here, is stored, sold, given away or chucked away. All boxes are filled up to the top, no cubic centimeter of space left. But I suppose that we will find a lot in them in Seattle, wondering why we took that along. Necessities and memories ... all included. The way it is packed we are pretty confident that everything arrives safe and in one piece - time will tell if we are right.

Ok, there are a few things that accompany us in the plane, but mainly clothing and kids stuff, documents and the laptops. The majority is in these boxes. They should be picked up soon!

Now the kids need a bit more attention again, they missed out a bit the last days. On Saturday we want to make a farewell party with a few of their friends. Weather forecast is not the best, but we hope to be able to make a BBQ anyway. Either balcony and indoor party or outside the whole time.

Preparations

Finally the cartboard boxes we ordered did arrive. Not only the cartboard boxes, but also 60 rolls of hand strech foil and 1000 transparent hulls, we never ordered, but our urgently needed large cartboard containers are missing. We hope the the responsible company sorts out that problem reasonably fast, atleast they were really friendly and helpfull on the phone. They even offered me to keep the hand strech foil ... but what to do with that? Christmas presents? We decided rather to get them picked up again and send them back.
Here is a picture about the packing materials we will keep and use.
Packing lists are growing and our flat looks like a nightmare. Piles, boxes and especially kids stuff everywhere. Since we are busy organizing, Theda and Jonte use this time their own way ... .
But even without them, we are great making a mess before packing it all into the boxes that it is supposed to go in. Katrin way ahead of me concerning packing everything. I somehow still try to concentrate partly on my work. Atleast as good as possible. The next days will be our main "packing days". Some time early next week we want to have packed 3 palettes (0.8mx1.2mx2m, 6 cubic meter or about 210 cubic foot) and send them on the way to Seattle. We will see how we do survive the coming up weekend.

Katrin already sorts out all toddler clothes we have from Theda and Jonte, that will fit Narne within the next year. All other clothing will have to join us later, but not with this lot. Here you can see Katrin and our living room the way they look right now. Better, the way it looked 1 hour ago. By now we squeezed it all into the first final box. Yeah! It only needs to be labeled and we are 1/22 done. (2 large cartboard containers and 20 boxes it will be in the end).

Now back to work for some more minutes. More to come in the next days ...