On: JPs in DC...

After two weeks of "good-byes" and a few tearful moments, Jon and I boarded our red-eye and headed off to DC (Arlington, VA, to be exact).

We flew out Monday night, landed in New York the following morning, then landed in DC on Tuesday around mid morning. They were some of the least hectic flights we've ever had--no lost or "abandoned" luggage, no crazy plane acrobatics, no offensive perfume. Excellent.

On Wednesday we rented a truck from a very helpful Jeremy and iphoned our way to the pick up sight in Maryland to retrieve our relo-cube. After unloading the cube and re-loading our life into the truck, we noted only minimal damage to some of our things: chipped mirror, gauged dresser, broken cirque du soleil mug, dirty couch--nothing outrageous. Then we drove back to Arlington, making sure that we didn't take the wrong highways that didn't allow trucks...tricky. Next came another round of unpacking and hauling all of our things up to our new place. Since we live on the ninth floor, we were singing the praises of the freight elevator and hand truck that made our move much, much easier.

Now we're just in the process of unpacking and organizing! As some of you may know, our place is small, but we've discovered that it's very cool. More pictures to come once we put everything away. For now, this is a picture that a kind Japanese lady snapped for us in the Sacramento airport--we actually ended up sitting next to her on the plane.

(This is us awake for many, many hours).