Moving Day

Moving day came and went on Saturday. It started off with a hangover, but when you are unemployed with no immediate plans to do anything serious, what do you expect? We feel we are due for some fun and irresponsibility at this point!

Moving Day in Chiang Mai

After we shook off the previous late night with a big cup of instant coffee, we promptly packed up our lives into our few pieces of luggage and hailed a red songthaew. We packed everything into the back, and had the driver follow us on our super sweet rental scooter. It was about a 10 minute ride through some extremely narrow side streets…kudos to the taxi driver for navigating such a tight drive!

After we arrived at our new apartment building, we crammed the lobby elevator with our belongings. A nice Thai man helped us out but nearly flipped our cat over in his carrier after picking it up sideways with one handle, not realizing it was occupied by our furry little cat child. No worries though…MooShu lives to fight another day.

We made it to our floor and quickly claimed our respective wardrobes and unpacked everything. Amazingly, we were able to fit almost all of our empty luggage into the storage areas around the apartment.

Our particular unit was only one of two units on our floor. We are happy not to share walls with anyone, and no one is living above us.  In fact, the icing on the cake was that this was the view out our front window.

After we were all settled, we took our rental scooter out to a Tesco Lotus superstore to buy a few necessities for apartment living. Think of it as a step up from a super Wal-Mart, but without all the crazies. This included the basics like bath towels, plates, bowls, and cleaning items. We had to remind ourselves a few times that we would have to fit everything into our backpack and the basket on the front of our rental scooter. Of course we ended up having to hang a couple of bags from our mirrors, but we made it work, Thai-style.

We could go on and on about our first moving day in Chiang Mai, but to sum it up in a few words, it went very well. Before the end of the night we cracked open a couple Chang beers, made a toast, and patted ourselves on the back for finally making our dream from a year and a half ago a reality. We are here and we are proud of everything we have accomplished in such a relatively short time. Hopefully positive vibes will keep coming our way, and how could they not with a view like this only a couple steps out of our front door. Not such a bad end to a moving day…