HHE,Consumables and The Car

Our baby with the Diplomat plate

The Pantry that take me the whole day to organize

consumables enough for 6 mos I guess

lovers in the middle of all the boxes

The embassy truck with the three crates in it

HHE is three very important letters in foreign service life...and yes we got our HHE, consumables and the car over the past couple of weeks. The car arrived first, on 01OCT, then a week after that we got one crate of our HHE...only one! Then this week we got three more crates which contained the rest of our HHE and Consumables. We are happy to get our big screen TV...with football season in full swing and baseball playoffs, Jeff is really happy to have the TV. Im happy to have the car And Claire is really happy to have her toys...we can tell she missed them as we were unpacking, she was really excited to see every box we were opening, just like Christmas! haha. As I go thru the boxes I realised that we packed a lot of unnecessary stuff...thanks to Jeff! haha. And we didn't really bring that much...we put more in storage than we shipped here. A lot of people have 9 or more crates...we only had 4 total! We did alright though for our first posting and not really knowing what to expect for a house furnished by the government. But all in all we did a good job on our first post.

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Pack out day!!!!

Storage stuff
2nd day Pack out
My Surf Board to HHE!!!
Security Storage 4 axle

All our stuff is gone!!! The movers came this morning to pack out. They did the HHE, UAB and our consumables. We separate the things that goes to HHE and UAB, and all the consumables are in one room that make it easy to walk through the house with the 3 movers and explain what went where. They literally packed out everything...even the cut out coupons in the drawer that we forgot to throw away is now in our UAB!! I went to get lunch a bucket of KFC for all of us to share.They're done packing at around 4pm. They will come back tomorrow to pack out the storage shipment, which is all our furniture and 110v kitchen items and our winter clothes. Our place in Cameroon is furnished so we don't need to bring our own....and we'll get 220v stuff there or we can order online. As long as we have a coffee maker we'll be OK!! Tonight we'll sleep in a sofa bed in the basement.
7/16 ..We woke up at 6:30 sleeping in a sofa bed is not bad at all.Jeff went to get us a coffee and a box of Dunkin Donut to start the day. The movers arrived around 9 and start packing out the rest of our stuff that goes in the storage. At 1:15 they're done! The house is really empty now!! Nada!! We're "roughing it" on the floor tonight!!Thanks to The Security Storage.They did a Great Job!!!Pack out is over! Yahoo!!

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