Shipment

What a crazy past few days. Tuesday we found out that our household shipment was due to arrive in a truck to Shell. So around 6:00 in the evening here came the truck all loaded down and full with our things. And nothing was broken, ruined, wet, or stolen! It has been almost a year and a half since we last saw these things, leaving many questions like "why did we pack that" or "didn't I put (fill in the blank) in our shipment." It has been a type of Christmas to see all these things, and very surreal because they all harken back to a lifestyle and culture we left a while ago. Many of the sights and smells as we opened various tubs reminded us of some fond memories while living in Colorado.

We will continue today sorting through our things and trying to decide what to do with the stuff we don't need yet. Since we are living in someone else's house, we don't need a lot of what we brought (ironic huh?) so we have to find a place to store it once again.

Highlights of what we unpacked seem to be my bike, Becca's dishes, Brooklyn's toys and our new appliances. We switched out the older appliances here in the house for our new ones just for the fun of it. We have never owned new appliances, and here at the end of the world we have new appliances to enjoy. It has been fun. Our oven is not hooked up yet, but I will work on that today as we need to get an adapter so we can hook up the propane to it.

I took this Tuesday morning from our hangar. This is Sangay Volcano as seen looking to the South. It reaches to just over 15,000 feet. It is very majestic and impressive. I am hoping for a clear day to get a panoramic view of the whole range in front of our hangar to display all the volcanoes. Sangay just happened to be the only clear part that morning, and even that was short lived.