Moving to Las Vegas

As exciting as new experiences are, moving has never been my favorite activity. For whatever reason, it usually involves a great deal of stress, lack of sleep, and a number of unanticipated difficulties. This move was no different.

Since Steph needs to student teach in Las Vegas and I have an internship there, we found an apartment, rented a Budget Moving truck, and headed for Las Vegas. We were very grateful that gas prices dropped and that we found a great deal on a moving truck. With gas at $4.00 a gallon, we had anticipated spending a great deal of money moving.

Moving was especially fun because of the cleaning we had to do and the weather. In order to stay until the 17th, I had to cut a deal with our landlady to do a deep cleaning of the apartment. Things always take longer than expected and we only got about 4 hours of sleep. We then had to drive a 16 ft. moving truck through the snowstorm that hit southern Utah. It was a bit hair raising to say the least. Despite the bad weather, we were blessed and made it to Mesquite for the night.

The most comic events of our move happened when we reached Las Vegas and started moving in. We had unloaded most of the truck and were left with the couches. We were able to maneuver the love seat through the twisty, narrow entry, but there was no way our couch would fit. We ended up taking it in over the patio railing and through the sliding glass door! We must had looked so funny, especially when we got momentarily stuck! My hat goes off to Steph for being a trooper and helping me get the couch over the patio railing. Good times.

Here is the moving truck (partially unpacked). We got a larger truck so we didn't have to stack things too high.

Here is the moving truck in front of our old apartment in Rexburg.