Moving Out of Nichada

Let me start this post by emphatically stating that my wife is AMAZING.  Moving overseas is hard enough - even with the help you get.  From list after list, staging, inventories, coordination, etc., it's exhausting to do as a family.  It's even harder to do by yourself - and my wife did most of our move prep and execution by herself and with 4 kids to be a mother to as well.  Thanks Candace for all that you do and are.  Love you.

So the months of preparation came to a finale as the movers arrived to pack up our house.  We split the move into 4 parts: 1) sea shipment to storage (items that will move into our home when it's done), 2) sea shipment to apartment, 3) air shipment, and 4) bags we take with us on the airplane.  Candace color coded EVERYTHING so the movers would clearly know what went where.  They did a fabulous job!  Their skill at crafting custom boxes for furniture and odd shapes was amazing.

where there's a will, there's a way to play!

We slept on air mattresses for the few days the house was boxed and the kids finished school.

The movers took 2 days to box the house and then 1 day to load it all in the shipments:

Crating the piano

Have I mentioned Candace is an amazing wife and mother?  Amidst the insanity that is moving a house, we hosted good-bye parties for our kids and their friends.  I kept telling her it was an added complexity we didn't need - she simply smiled at me and said it would be fine.  She was right.  :-)

Once the house was boxed and mostly all moved out, we cleaned it all and I patched the many holes in the walls from the hanging frames.

We had GREAT help with these 2 friends.  Khun San Juan (left) left her day job several times to come over and help clean, bring food, etc.  Khun Geetha came over after her day job to help clean as well.  These are just a few of the many people who dropped off meals and helped out...love our friends here!

We had a nice family meal (with an AMAZING sunset I posted about under "full circles") during our last night in Nichada...

The next day we loaded up all of our luggage (17 bags, not counting back packs) in our mini van and Khun Tar drove the van and I drove the Vios downtown to our interim hotel.

We will miss living in Nichada Thani.  It was the perfect place for our family in Bangkok for 2 years with wonderful family and friends.

Good-bye Nichada, we will miss you!