We're home!

Denise and I made it to our new home on Saturday.

Thursday our other Subaru left for the island. We had to meet the trucking company at the target parking lot because realtors were showing the house during the pickup window. 

Thinking back on this today it was a good thing this was the pickup location.  While waiting for the truck I heard a horn and a crash about 500' down at the intersection.  I couldn't see anything but waited about a minute and decided I'd better see if they needed help.  I arrived about 2 minutes after the crash and people were still standing around.  A 370z had T-boned another car and nobody had called 911 or checked on the driver in the the time it took me to arrive!  Unbelievable that many people do not react well in these situations.  I made the call, checked for injuries and stayed with the driver of the red car until the fire department arrived to get her out.  She had taken an airbag to the head but didn't appear to have major injuries.  (I took the picture after the fire department arrived and traffic was directed around the wreck).

Our plane left late Friday night so we spent the day clearing the last of the stuff out of the house.  We had to pause and leave a few times to allow realtors to show the house, but were able to get a lot accomplished.  We spent some time with our friend Ronda, our awesome neighbors Steve and Cheryl, had a wonderful dinner at Don and Jayne Knoop's house and headed to the airport.

Overall the flight with the cats went well. TSA at PDX was awesome.  They were polite and suggested we could send our stuff through the belt, collect it and go to a private screening area for the cat carriers.  This was a tremendous help so Jack, our freak cat would not have an issue getting out and going through the metal detectors.

Christy, our Delta gate agent in Portland allowed us to treat our folding kennel as a stroller and place it at the end of the jet way so we'd have it available for our 4 hour layover in Atlanta.  This allowed us to let them out of the under-seat carriers and let them relax a bit.

We were exhausted when we arrived in St Croix but were pleased to see the first Subaru waiting for us in the parking lot.  We loaded all of our luggage and made a stop to pick up a litter box and some basics then headed to our rental.  Lenny, A friend we met in February is renting us a master bedroom in his house.  We unloaded the stuff then went for nachos at Lenny's restaurant.

Sunday, today, we woke up late, unpacked a few more things and planned a trip to our property.  First we had to respond to the offers on the house.  Good news is we received good offers above asking price and accepted the best one today.  Joys of a digital age allows us to do the paper work from here.

When we arrived at the road to our property we took a walk down it and found our rocks we used to mark the beginning of the lot back in February.  Once we stepped over the line it was nice to look out and see the awesome view again.  

We spent the rest of the day going to various stores to pick up the necessities and then a trip to Home Depot for tools to clear the property.  

We brought our machetes we took home last trip and purchased a weed eater and chain saw today.  We're not doing major clearing yet but just enough to get the car through, but that will have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday.  Tomorrows plans are paying the auto insurance, registering the car, getting our PO box and a few other things that needed us to be on island to complete.  

Did I mention the weather here is perfect? 

Kevin & Denise