Moving Recap

**Mainly for my journaling benefit! But feel free to read all about our adventures the past couple of weeks!**

Since we got stuck on Sunday night we had to wait until Monday to hear from the dealership. When we finally heard Monday evening they told us that the transmission was toast and that it would take about a week or so until it was fixed. We could NOT wait in Wichita a week so on Tuesday afternoon we took our rental car and drove down to Oklahoma so Chris could get started on the job. Wednesday was spent checking in to all the apartment complexes we are renting for us and the crew, and going to get some stuff to get us through the rest of the week (our trailer was still parked at the dealership in Wichita).

Chris then spent Thursday-Saturday working and on Saturday afternoon we took the company truck up to Wichita to pick up the trailer (we will no longer be pulling anything with our car!). Well as luck would have it, about 15 miles outside of Wichita the front tire blew out on the truck!!! Due to a slow leak in one of the other tires the spare was being used and the other tire was back in Oklahoma, which meant that once again we needed to call a tow truck AND a taxi. Awesome! The irony here is that about an hour before the tire blew one of Chris' managers called and told him to go ahead and put 4 new tires on the truck whenever he gets a chance. Looks like his chance is now! At this point Chris and I were just laughing because it seems we just can't go to Wichita without breaking down just outside of the stinkin' city. Things got done a lot quicker this time around and it only took about an hour and half to get picked up and dropped off at Sears. We called Sears about 6 pm and said we would be there in about an hour or so and asked if they would be able to put all new tires on tonight. They said they would. Well turns out Sears isn't very quick about putting new tires on because we got there around 7:30 pm and left at 10 pm with ONLY 2 tires put on!!! (They close at 9) Not very impressive, which meant that once again we got to stay in a hotel. But we got all of our stuff finally! We'll just get to go back to Wichita 1 or 2 more times to drop off the rental and pick up our car, and hopefully we'll be able to go up event free!

Chris finished up the footing of the building on Monday which gave him the rest of the week to be able to work at home . The other 2 tires got put on in about 15 minutes at a tire place here in town (that's more like it!). We also found out that the warranty company would only pay for 5 days for a rental car, so we decided to head back to Wichita to return it and just use a company car until ours was done. The dealership called us and had told us that it was going to be at least another week until the transmission was done because the warranty company took so long to decide that the dealership can just rebuild it and then it takes a few days for the parts to come in, so we didn't want to pay for another week or so for the rental. We drove it back without any problems!!! Then while we were eating lunch we got a call saying the parts for the transmission had come in early and the guy cranked it out last night so it was ready for pickup! YAY!!! That means we don't have to go back a 4th time!

And now, after a week and a half of getting here we are finally all moved in and mostly settled in!!