Move Update

"Je suis fatigue!" (I am tired!)

I've been too busy to post, but here's a quick update of where we are at with our move:

HOUSE

Home sweet home... for a little while longer

After a small bidding war we sold our home to a local realtor. He's going to spend $50,000 or so to fix it up, upgrade all the appliances, etc., and then he'll probably sell it for a tidy profit.

We continue to make good progress, which is good because we have to be completely moved out of our house by the 9th of September.

PAPERWORK

Yep, nothing I like more than paperwork...

We apparently need to have to get an apostille on our birth certificates and marriage license, which is basically a French certification of authenticity. Before this can be applied to the documents they have to be certified by our own government, and unfortunately the whole process has to be done in the county where they were issued. For us, that's back in Wyoming and Colorado. We could probably do it through the mail, but we wanted to visit our families back there before we leave anyway, and this helps solve the dilemma of what to do with our car. (See below.)

CAR

We love our Mazda 323

After spending a couple of days in Paris several months ago we quickly realized that we had NO desire to drive a car there. So we either needed to sell our car or figure out some way to store it. We don't really have time to sell it (and we only bought it a few years ago and still love it), so we decided to leave it in my parent's garage. They had room for it and we wanted to drive back to see them anyway, so this should work out great.

SCHEDULE

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping... into the future...

If all goes well, here's our schedule for the next few weeks:

September 8th - Fly to the embassy in San Francisco to get our visas (there is an embassy in Seattle but they apparently S.F. "responded first" so that's where we have to go)

September 9th - Finish moving out of the house

September 12th - Have a party with Autumn and some friends

September 13th - Leave for Wyoming and spend a few days with Melanie's family

September 15th - Drive to Cheyenne Wyoming to get documents apostilled

September 19th - Drive to Colorado to see my family

September 25th - Leave for Paris!