Return to Hyderabad = T-0

Its here and its happenning ....

Its t-0, today is the day, finally here after years of anticipation, one full year
of planning, months of efforts....

After shipping compnay took all the stuff we were staying in appartment without beds
using sleeping bags. But on other front we have tons of stuff still to throw away. Craigslist did help a lot in clearing lot of it. But still we end up throwing many utensils etc. Be aware some clients of craigslist are like vultures, especially if they are in and around your locality, they keep watching the adv. call up regularly if stuff is still available and land on last day to negotiate for free or making
up stories that forgot to get change or will give the cash to our frinds to mail later etc etc. Its better to cut them off right away even if you end throwing the stuff away. We had to deal with few of them on last day which was irritating.

Anyway, we planned to leave at 1:30 PM and booked the cab with VAN option, we had plenty of luggages to take almost 15 bags among 5 people. I went to rental office cleared all the dues and left few dollors extra so that on closing I don't have to pay extra. Cab came at 1:30 PM sharp, one of our very good friends offered to come upto airport which helped to stuff in few luggaes in there van. Dropped the key at 1:45PM and left to Airport. An emotion of sadness, confusion and kind of shakyness ran through my spine ... BUT MY HOPE WAS STRONG THAT THINGS ARE TURNING FOR GOOD ! with that feeling I just turned one last time towards the apartment and said GOODBYE BOSTON

Return to Hyderabad T-3

Its T-3 THE DAY ....Shippers are comming home

I won't call it D-DAY (this title is reserved for day when we receive the shipping!)

Got up really early and moved every box to living room, checked, re-checked the labelling. For labelling we followed a process, at first as we packed each box, we marked the box with category code example: E =electronics, H=Household, G=general followed by a number of box in that category. Just a day before shipping, entered all the boxes in excel sheet with a serial number. Finally marked each serial number on the box with total number of boxes for shippers. This whole process gave total of 58 boxes for me including mattress/spring counted as 2 boxes

Yes, shipper came in as scheduled, but one glitch no one came for loading the truck. I insisted in getting the loading help, truck went back and came after 2 hours with a loading staff. 2 guys moved all stuff in about 2 hours and did excellent job without any bumps are draggings. In fact felt if same 2 guys can come to Hyd to unload. Finally shipping truck left at 6:00 PM leaving us completly empty house! LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME FOR SOME INDOOR CRICKET :-)