August 1, 2011
We moved out of our home on August 1, 2011. It was so strange to see the home where we'd lived for 4 years empty.
We were lucky to have movers (Allied Van Lines through Sorensen Moving & Storage), but we experienced some glitches that made the move somewhat frustrating. If any of you are planning to move from Florida, then I don't recommend using Allied if you have to go through Sorensen. We planned for the movers to come a week ahead of when we'd fly out, because the moving consultant told us it would take that long for the moving truck to get across the country. Also, all of our household goods plus our vehicles would be transported at the same time so we would get them at the same time. Then, a car transporting company called us and arranged to pick up our vehicles, because (according to the representatives at Sorensen) there were too many people moving at the same time and they couldn't fit our vehicles on the truck. That made our vehicle arrival time one week LATER than our belongings (and us). When the movers came the day after our things were boxed, the driver said he was told to have our things in California by a certain date, which was almost a week later than we'd be there and than we had arranged. We were NOT happy. We were fortunate to have help from the members in our new Ward from church, but we still did not have our contract met. We got reimbursements for the "mistakes", but they weren't full reimbursements. Ugh!
Because we still had another week before leaving Florida, we needed somewhere to stay. The Howard family was kind enough to allow our entire family to stay with them. We love that family!
