May 3rd in Michigan

33deg and snowing in Michigan, 83deg and mostly cloudy in Hawaii.

Just a check in...
The bed: We are not shipping it. It cost more to ship it than to buy another one... but I am feeling quite bad about it all. I do not want my bed, from my wedding, my gift, to be a universal bed in someone else's house 4000 miles away. This was our second biggest wedding gift and it shouldn't be on the floor, or spread out among someone's attic/a different mattress/garage/guest room. You get what I mean... But whatever, this is the same as with the car... Not up to me. It will save us money, but it's just disturbing me and I don't think I'll ever get over it.

The car: HA! Oh my goodness. Magic Carpet Auto Transport is who we are going through. We were supposed to have the car shipped Monday-Thursday range of this past week. Not happening. We moved out of our apartment building, so can no longer ship it out of that parking lot, and the company is just not working out. We are going to be leaving on Wednesday of this coming week and they don't even have a driver for us. I know we live far away but gosh! We paid these people immediately almost 2 grand, before they had a driver. We have Crystal as our worker, and yet every time we call to find something out she isn't there, on the phone, or just stepped out. Her desk must be filled with postits because everyone else we talk to says that they'll leave a message for her. They have had a month to find a driver... And when we leave, we cannot be here to send it off, sign any papers.. And I refuse to have to leave it 20miles away from where it would have been picked up from originally, and have to pay more for them to go there.... I hope you know what I mean.

The tickets: Over and done with... Well so far, I guess it wont be done with until we leave on the plane.

The shipments: USPS is gonna hate us! Oy, so far... we have probably mailed at least 25 boxes... AT LEAST, and have spent perhaps $700... I guessed it would cost $250... NOT! If only everything was media mail!

4days! I will upload a picture of our snowstorm in May... I swear this was overnight, a few days ago it was warm. Today it is the beginning of winter again!

April 21 in Michigan

46deg in Michigan, 78deg in Hawaii.

Just a short update!
We have 16 days! OMG! It still feels like we live here, as most of our stuff is still out and not packed, but we got rid of one of our cars... and packed some boxes... It's a start!

Final companies used: Magic Carpet Auto Transport and Orbitz. USPS...

I'm not freaking out, I just wish that once we get there, at least for a little while, we are really in the middle of nowhere and not downtown right off the bat. Just to ease the transition from a small town in the middle of nowhere to a big city in the middle of an ocean far far away from small towns... Just a little shack on the beach for a while might be nice...

April 11 in Michigan.

This is what we will be leaving... Darn, I'm NOT going to miss it! Last night, all the snow was melted. This morning... uRgggh!!!

April 10 in Michigan

The temperature is... 74deg and lightning in HI... 32deg and peaceful nighttime in MI.

Just writing in (as if anyone reads this)... Orbitz is currently having some sort of trouble with their website. We tried booking our flights, gave all our information, and then nothing. No confirmation email, no phone call. We tried to look for our bookings, but the site was down. Then we called the Customer Service people. One said their site was down. One other said that they didn't even have us in their files and tried to rebook us on flights that cost twice as much as we had already! Crazy crazy.

So now we are waiting until tomorrow, or rather later, to make sure our bank account wasn't charged. Then we can try again!

In the meantime, we have been looking on Craigslist for apartments... :)

April 8th in Michigan

It's pretty gross outside now... 33 in Michigan, 73 and raining in Honolulu...

We are switching to Magic Carpet Auto Transport! They are chock full of good reviews, and there was only one bad one... A dood wanted to send a mobile home, but when he called them, he told them it was a van... HELLO? Anyways, gotta get going now, just thought I'd let y'all know!

A good place to look for good car shipping companies is Transport Reviews.com. You get all the reviews, and all the best and worst rated car shipping companies available.

Okie then! Off I go for now!

April 3rd in Michigan...

It's 42 deg in Michigan!

Alright, so TriStar=BAD. We started shopping around, and found some better options... But when we tried to cancel our car shipment with TriStar, they hung up on us 5 times in a row. We would talk to them, tell them who we were and our account number, then say that we were going to be cancelling our shipment and then CLICK. We called Customer Service 3 times, CLICK. We called all the numbers we could find, followed by a CLICK. Ya... That's not nice!

April 3rd in Michigan!

Now Blogger went and froze my account! Told me that they weren't sure if I was a human and said my site was spam... Well it aint!

It is 48deg here, and it feels great! It smells like spring finally! The snow is melting! My computer says its 73deg in Hawaii though... Even nicer, but for some reason, if the weather doesn't heat up here fast enough, the heat of Hawaii might overwhelm me!

Alright, so what we have done so far! There was a bout of sadness and despair with our trip. We didn't know what we were going to do! How we were going to live! It's so expensive there... OY! It was all rather overwhelming! But we realized, after we made our announcement that there was no turning back... It would be better in the long run to live somewhere that we can actually get jobs and graduate with a usable degree! And live somewhere that our car would work alright (this cold weather is terrible for it)...

Back to business. We are shipping our car through TriStar Carriers... Which may or may not be a bad idea. I just read a review for it and it isnt that good, and the only good reviews I can find anywhere are on their site. Kinda shifty! I am trying to see what "Specialty Mobile Systems" has to offer, as they have the best reviews I've found!

We have Charter Communications, a cable/internet service here. We just scheduled the cancelling of our service which was very easy and quick! We also switched from Cellular One to AT&T, using coupon codes we got an amazing deal...

I don't know much about shipping our bed though. My mother has been talking with the people about that. Supposedly they are called Yellow Shipping? I dont really know...

I'll write more later, about the car!