Wed 10 Jan 2007
Today & yesterday were big days for us. On tuesday, we received the 20ft container from Tropical Shipping. On wednesady, the movers came to pack the container & at 3pm the trucking company which delivered the container came to pick it up again. Once the movers left, then I had some running around to do. I had to print & fax a bunch of documents. DOH, all my stuff including my printer is in the container (I am using a laptop lent to me by my sister ; thanks sis) So I went to see my friends at KPMG to print my inventory and then fax all the required documents to Tropical Shipping for the container. Then, off to BFL, an insurance broker to pay for the insurance & give them once again all the required paperwork. Then back home!
The last 3-4 days Julie & I had been going to bed really late making boxes & packing stuff. Unlike a regular move where all you do is pack your stuff, we had to also make a detailled inventory with prices of everything (spoons, sox, etc.) for the container insurance & Cayman customs. Our inventory was 5 pages long …
Here comes the container
In front of the house. 
The night before I put almost all the boxes in the garage to make things go swiftly.
There goes all our stuff. It now goes to CN in Montreal. Takes the train to New Brunswick on the weekend and then on the boat on sunday the 14th. It will be in Grand Cayman on the 25th of January barring a massive shipping incident. 🙂
Hey you guys have no snow in Montreal… WTF ? Same thing here in Europe 🙂
I “assume” those G&T boxes are a “gift” from a former employer ? 😛
You guys have worked really hard, I see; you’ll both be a few pounds lighter after all that work. Hope everything works out perfectly for you both and you can take it easy, once everything is settled in the Caymans. The next hurdle, the trip to Miami, will be a challenge too, but hopefully, it’ll also be an interesting experience. Glad to see my car in the road; I don’t miss it, even with the cold weather now. Take care.
No snow here at all. -12 here today though. Jason in the mailroom came through with about 60-70 boxes for me. In all we had 135 + other stuff that does not fit in boxes (e.g : furniture) in the container.