First Night at La Quinta

This is our first night's stay at La Quinta, our first away from 'home' but not bEcause we are on a holiday.

Movers will come late morning tomorrow (hopefully after we reach 'home' to make sure all the boxes are sealed and everything that are supposed to be packed are all in.

Latest carton count: 54 boxes with 20 odd sized items. This is better than I expected. I thought we were going to hit 100 in total (we probably will if baby boy is born here). At least 1/5 of this shipment belongs to AN: toys and clothes.

Poor Mr Liow had another long day today. He got up at 7.30am to bring BM to the vet to get the health certs signed, drove 2 hours down to Phoenix's USDA office for export of animals, got a near cardiac arrest at being told our vet used a health cert for late animals instead of dogs but the kind officer approved the export anyway with a note indicating that it was a wrong form used but will not affect the export procedures in any ways (phew!!), waited over an hour for all the papers to be ready for collection, got caught in a terrible 2 hour jam, rushed back to office to orientate Derrick (the new guy), checked in to La Quinta and finally rushed back home in time to continue packing.

We sold the remaining of our furnitures (our sofabed from Sgp and a queen bed with divan and a bookcase for USD$115. hehe.) and then went out for dinner.

Mr Liow was drained by then but we had to continue packing after dinner. There were mirrors and other odd sized items that needed bubble wrapping due to their fragile nature and we spent the next few hours after that stuffing remaining items in unsealed boxes and wrapping fragile items.

Had wanted to stock up on BM's food but had no time at all to go get them. No choice then, we just have to get their food locally after they finish whatever we have left. Am glad Nature's Variety Instinct's Duck formula is available in Sgp (right??). I've stopped giving them Orijen. It's not doing them any good at all. Stools are constantly soft (and they poo A LOT while on Orijen) and they are constantly tearing wet tears. Coat doesn't appear to look better. So, no point carrying on.

2 more days and Tucson and that is the end of our journey in the "other side of the world". As I switched off the lights before leaving for the hotel a while ago, the heart felt heavy. I felt as if the house was sobbing for us to stay. One just cant help feeling emotional.

Will I cry when we lock the doors of our Sonoran Terrace townhouse in 2 days for the last time? I may, for all you know. *sob*