We moved to New Orleans several weeks ago. This is a very big change for our family. We left our home in Sugar Land and Houston where we lived for past seven years for a completely new and unknown city.
My parents left to go back to Malaysia after spending several months with us in Houston. Boon Hong's mum came to Houston a few days before my parents departure in a last minute trip.
Moving is not an easy task.
My parents left on Sunday. The packers from moving company came on Monday. The two packers are extremely efficient and they worked like robotic vacuum cleaner. They packed everything that they saw into boxes without much discretion. We didn't have time to throw away some paper thrash and these were packed into the boxes as well in nice wrapping paper. Moving company was very concern about having to compensate for breaking any of our items. So they packed only a few items in each box and each item was wrapped in multiple layers of packing paper. It is funny when we unpack a big box in New Orleans and only find a small plastic thrash can and a few small photo frames occupying the entire box. When the packers are done, we ended up with 90+ boxes being stacked up in our house.
On Tuesday, the movers came. The movers started about 9am and by lunch time, our entire house and everything that we accumulated in the past 7 years of our lives are gone and tightly stashed in a big eighteen wheeler truck. They took our car too. Tuesday was the hardest time during the entire moving process. All the chairs were gone. Boon Hong had to breastfeed the Isaac by sitting on the toilet seat. Meredith was running around the whole time while the movers were hauling heavy furnitures. One mover was taking away her "tan pui" (potty toilet for small kid), Meredith screamed at the mover in Chinese asking why her "tan pui" was taken away. Of course, the mover did not undersand her and her "tan pui" was stashed away along with everything else.
Boon Hong, her mum, Isaac and Meredith finally had to go to mall for a few hours because there are nothing left in our house and it was too chaotic. I stayed back to clean up for a few hours. We went to a church friend house to spend the night on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, we waved goodbye to Houston and flew to New Orleans
