Monday, 10 June 2013

The trouble with moving

Whenever we move customs has to clear our container at the border and our relocation company spends a lot of hours preparing the manifest and paperwork for this. During the last two moves this was a breeze. This time they pulled our shipment for secondary inspection at the port of Los Angeles and then updated our container's status to "undergoing extensive search." For what? I have no idea. The folks who packed it were the best moving team we've ever had and each and every detail was taken care of. There's not a single thing in there that could possible be a problem. We have to assume it's a random selection.

Looking for a place to stay

The reason this really sucks is our temporary housing check out date is Tuesday (yes, THIS Tuesday) and this place is overbooked so they can't extend us. Our new apartment is empty save Austen's new crib in his bedroom and our enormous fridge. So all of a sudden here we are, four adults, a baby and a cat looking for a place to stay for another week while we wait to move in. It's high season for this area and I have ONE day to somehow find a place with that kind of space and availability. Everyone pray to the apartment gods, or call your long lost cousin at US customs. We're going to need all the help we can get.
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  1. Naomi Hattaway @ naomihattaway.com13 June 2013 at 12:59

    We got a LONG email from our relo company detailing the hows and whys of the new customs holds. Appears it is the new normal!! It goes hand in hand with the three hour wait time we had for clearing customs and immigration when we arrived in the US. Nothing like THAT for a welcome home!

    I hope it all goes well and you figure it out with a MINIMAL amount of stress!!

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  2. Stacey17 June 2013 at 08:27

    Did they say it was the government cut-backs?

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