The 2 weeks after we got our order was very dramatic.
I finished my dental work on the 9th of April which was a Friday. So we turned the paper work in on the following Monday which was the 12th. I was just thinking about we might have about 2-3 weeks before we move. At noon, Pat called.
" Hey, they told me that I have to outprocess and leave before Friday!!And I will get my order tomorrow." he said.
WHAT!!! How am I going to finish everything in 2-3 days. We need to contact TMO for arranging moving company to come pack and pick up all our house hold goods, contact GMAC for the writting statement in order to ship our car, drive our car to New Orlean to ship it to Germany, get the stuff and cluter out of the apartment, pack suitcases, disconnect all the utilities,cable, book hotels for Friday and Saturday night.....etc.
. I was speechless and can't think at all. And GMAC was not helping at all. Since we financed our car through GMAC, we need a writing statement for us to bring the car out of the country. We had called them 5-6 times a day for 3 days until Thursday Pat finally told them that :
" NO matter I get this approval letter from you or not, I'm going to ship my car tomorrow anyway." Then they finally speeded it up and gave us the letter. Seriously, I will not finance through them again. It's such a pain in the butt.
TMO arrange the moving company to come to pack on Thursday and pick up all the HHG on Friday. So I'd been working very hard to get rid off the cluter and unwanted items. I didn't go to bed until 2:30 am on Thursday morning.
Not long after I laid down, my ears got very itchy. I can't stop scratch them. The it started to spread everywhere on my body. So I got up and looked at the mirror. My ears were swollen and there were rashes everwhere on my whole body. I thought I got food allegy. And it's gotten worse in the next few hours. So I decided to go to ER at 6:00am. Then I called Pat to inform the TMO that I can't make it on time for the moving company to come. After 3 hours, I got home with the medication. And the next 2 mornings, I had exact the same thing.
My mother-in-law told me that it caused by stress. I think it was Urticaria caused by stress. Very scary!!
On Friday, the moving company spent 7 hours to finish everything. Thank goodness!! The most difficult part was done. Pat had to drive to New Orlean to ship the car today. So Ian had to stay with me. You can imagine how busy I was trying to keep him away from everything!
We fly out of New orlean on Sunday early morning to Charlotte,NC then to Baltimore. There is a 11 hours layovers in Baltimore. Before we boarded the flight, Pat called the TMO to make sure our flight is still on schedule to fly due to the valcano in iceland. They gave us the positive answer. Right before we landed on Baltimore, the flight to Germany was cancelled. We got to stay in Sleep Inn and waited for further instruction.
Pat had to call everyday to see if the flight is on schedule that day. He called in the morning and got the positive answer and called back again for the other answer. Anyway, we stayed in the hotel until the next Thursday. We did a little bit sightseeing in Baltimore. It is a beautiful city.
We finally arrived in Ramstein, Germany on Friday. Ian did pretty well this time. He slept most of the time and made some friends on the way. But the 2 families are not at the same base as us. But they are not too far either. So we got their phone numbers and promised to visit them in the future.
It was a very odd, crazy, dramatic 2 weeks.
