Moving Day

Moving out of our house was an adventure in itself. The day started with a delivery from FedEx telling us that our Visa applications had been rejected by the Russian Government because we did not include paperwork for HIV tests. After a little freaking out.... (who knew you needed an HIV test?) we then found a shady little lab that could provide a "Rapid HIV Test" which would provide us the results ASAP - $200 later our blood was drawn and flown off to a lab to be tested. So needless to say - we aren't sure when we will be leaving for Moscow.

As the HIV crisis continuted the movers were busy moving all of our worldly possessions out of our home into a moving truck to store them for the next three years. It's hard to imagine that we won't see any of that stuff again for 3 years - and Carrie has already started a campaign for furniture replacement at the end of the three years - she claims that most likely none of our stuff will be in style 3 years from now and will need to be replaced - but we can worry about that later....

Back to moving....everything was going well until around noon when the PA state police showed in their big black SUV at our home with a warrant to arrest one of our movers, Joe. As soon as our mover, Joe saw the police officers he ran and as far as we know has not been seen since...... The police searched and circled our home for a couple of hours before giving up and calling it a day............ never a dull moment.

Eye Yie Yie - whats next?!