The Lift

The lift came yesterday and now everything is getting very real.  Thanks to my amazing friend Erin and her mom, we got everything ready for the movers the night before.  We only got a 20 ft lift, so I was unsure how much was going to be able to fit.

Our house was a crazy disaster, since we wanted to make everything really clear for the movers.  All the priority 1 stuff was in one pile in the living room, priority two was in another pile in the living room and priority 3 was downstairs.  In addition, we had some flat pack stuff (Ikea closets and a table and chair set from Costco) in the garage.  Oh and bikes...

When the movers came, they started with the bedroom furniture, which we knew we wanted to go no matter what.  Three trundle beds with their mattresses and a bunk bed with its mattresses (8 twin  mattresses). In addition we had a king sized bed and mattress and a full sized bed and mattress.

Here they are on the lift.

Our next priority was to get the bookshelves and books onto the lift.  As you might expect, we have a ton of books...I think we ended up with over 30 boxes of books since we have done several purges over the past couple years.

Then it came to the packed stuff.  I did not bring much kitchen stuff.  Our regular pots and pan (meat, dairy, and pareve) we are taking on the plane.  I am not bringing our weekday plates/bowls/etc.  The silverware that we are bringing (fairly limited) is also going on the plane with us. The only things that we shipped were our shabbos dishes (12 plates, 12 fish plates, and 12 bowls) and a couple serving platters. I didn't even bring the tea cups and saucers that go with our china set since I really never use them.

I didn't bring any glasses (no drinking glasses, no wine glasses) since they would take up a TON of space with all the packing material. Because of the differences in voltage, I only brought two small appliances (my mixer and my food processor) that could run with the transformer that we bought.

To make this whole day even more exciting, I was at work during this whole process!  I kept asking Aryeh and Daniel to take pictures, which they eventually did :). At first the movers thought they would only be able to get the priority 1 stuff into the lift, but in the end, they got all of 1 and most of 2.  They had to leave behind a few things I would have liked, but for the most part they got all the important stuff into the lift.

Here's the living room while they were packing.

 We used Kef moving and they contracted with Atlantic Relocation Services here in Denver.  We were really impressed with their professionalism and their speed. They arrived at about 8:30 in the morning and they were finished by 12:45!  I had heard that movers took 8 - 12 hours to pack up, but these guys got all the stuff packed and loaded with super great speed.


The scariest part about all of this is that now it is all really real!  The lift left last night and we all slept on air mattresses.  This morning I received the flight confirmation from El Al!  We have seats assigned and everything.  We only have 4 more days left in Denver!!!!  Israel, here we come!