Next step after that will be to purchase plane tickets. We're planning to fly out on January 15th or 16th, 2012.
Also, once we have a visas in hand, we can ship our house stuff to Japan. Kurt's been working with a couple different companies to work out the details. We aren't taking everything with us to Japan (leaving most of our furniture, china, and a few other things). That being said, we haven't started packing a thing and we leave for Utah for 10 days on Thursday. Because all of our items have to go through Customs, packing is a complicated process. One company said that they will have to pack and document everything for us due to Homeland Security laws and the other one said if we use their boxes and document everything then they may be able to give us a break on the cost. Either way we're hoping to send our stuff off around January 6th. The shipment will take 6-8 weeks to get to Japan.
Luckily, our apartment has been secured and its the one we wanted. In fact, it's officially empty and ours right now. Once we purchase a new Japanese cell phone for me, our couches, a temporary futon for Kurt & me, the kids bunk beds, a fridge, microwave, and washer/dryer we'll be moving in. Unfortunately, we need to try buy and deliver all said items in about 4 days before Kurt leaves the kids and me for a week... :( Trying to entertain a 3 year old and a 5 year old in a hotel by myself for a week does NOT sound very fun!
I'm sure everything will work out...but adding in the holidays and a pregnancy is starting to stress me out! But we will survive! lol
In the meantime, we really do want to say goodbye to as many people as possible before we leave! For those of you in Utah, we'll be in town the week before Christmas and New Years and would love to see you. Email me to arrange a time to meet up!
4 comments:
Wow. It's going to be a crazy next few weeks! Inter state moves are hard enough, but international? Crazy! It'll be a great adventure for you.
It might be awkward to take China to Japan.
i'm so so behind on blogging so i just got to check yours. i knew you were going to japan, but WOW! that's fast! and pregnant! congrats!!!! holy smokes. what an experience for all of you! you will have so much fun. and i'm sure kurt is in HEAVEN! what a fun adventure!
holy smokes! what an adventure you guys are going to have! and i never got to tell you congrats on your pregnancy. how fun for your family! i'm sure it's SUPER stressful but i hope you get to enjoy the craziness of it all. :)
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