So we are in the new place and I have internets now so YAY!

I have been pretty overwhelmed personally and I am sure that both BT and Familliar are as well but I thought I would pop in to say hi to everyone and let you guys know we are all okay and things went really well.

Well with the physical move at least. Lets break down the timeline of things that happened leading up to right now.

At the beginning of last month when we signed the lease for this place we booked a truck for the move with UHaul. They took our deposit on the truck and agreed to a 24 hour rental of the truck with a late pickup the day before so that we could pre-pack some things out at my parents and such. 10 days before we are due to move, they contact us and tell us that they have the truck for us and they confirmed that we were picking it up at 4pm on the 30th. So far so good. This is when it turned sour. They informed BT that the truck was due back at 7am the next morning. So now our 24 hour rental we agreed to is cut to 15 hours most of them when we are supposed to be asleep.

To say this is not good would be an understatement. We wrestled over the phone with them for a good long time. The person at the local UHaul place told us that they had the truck already booked out for the 1st so it had to be back at 7am or else we will suffer penalties that amount to double paying for the truck and other things. When we informed her that she was violating their own agreement contact that we entered into when we rented the vehicle, she told BT "Well you should have booked this a year ago" and that was all she wanted to hear.

We live in an education city. We have a major university, and 2 major colleges here, and everyone is moving. So rental places are usually busy. This is why we booked it a full month before the students were even into exams. To avoid crap like not being able to find a truck. Telling someone they have to book a year in advance is just ludicrous to say the least.

BT and I took to Twitter to voice our displeasure at this and they promised to have the CEO and the marketing director call us but of course that never happened.

I am in a panic now because we have 10 days to find a rental in a city with no rental trucks available when we need them. I called every company that was local and nothing. Finally I was able to talk to Penske and they found one in Ottawa for me. The price they offered was cheaper then the price of the UHaul and they discounted it further due to the long trip to get it and the garbage we had to deal with at UHaul. They comped us 150km and lowered the mileage costs after that from 20 cents a km to 15. I was in a great mood. I praised them and the person who helped me in Ottawa over Twitter and it must have got back to her because when we picked it up she informed me that because of her actions and helping out so fast she got employee of the month. :D

So the 30th hits and BT and I head off to Ottawa to pick up our rental truck. Turns out we got everything even cheaper because I am a CAA member so our costs went down even more. This was getting better and better.

It was my first time driving a 26' truck and I have to say that it is quite the experience. I never felt so manly in my life ;)

We get the truck to Kingston and park it at my parents house so we can get a bunch of our stuff from there. We then take it over to Familliar's parents house to pick up tables and chairs that they were giving us to use here and we headed off home.

BT and I didn't really pack anything more into the truck that night as we were pretty wiped out and we went to fairly early so we could get a good start on the day. Well that was the plan anyway. Turns out that our upstairs neighbours decided to have a party, and usually when they party there are fights and this was no exception. after only a couple hours sleep there was an incredible amount of yelling and throwing of things upstairs and we were unable to get any sleep. We had to call the police to try to do something about them because we had a huge day ahead of us moving all our stuff.

We finally get to sleep again just hours before we are supposed to get up for the day so it got the morning off to a slow start. I started moving things around in the truck and BT and I started loading it up. After a bit  Familliar came up and we continued to move things.  NikoDestato was the next on the scene followed shortly afterwards by  kalidascope,  Xzion, and  Jack_The_Tiger

We were cooking with gas now. We finished of our apartment and headed over to Familliar's. We were able to get most of his stuff out and we rushed off to the new house.

What followed was a blitz of moving where we were joined by  GrayFoxGree,  babydrake and Ralcus to round out the moving crew. We were loaded into the house by 6:15pm and everyone partook of pizza and beer. Well, everyone but BT and me.

We couldn't drink because we had to get the truck back to the Ottawa yard by 7am the next day but we decided to do it that night just to get it all over with.

At 9pm we left home bound for Ottawa. Everything was going great with the trip. BT and I had our radios so we could communicate between the truck and his car and the roads were pretty bare of traffic. We got about 30km out of Kingston just near the Casino in Gananoque when the big rental truck I was driving went from 100km/h to 65km/h to dead. It just lost power and started shaking pretty violently. It was quite scary. I hit the hazards when I got too slow and pulled over to the side of the highway as far as I could.

BT tucked his car in behind me and hit his hazards too and I got on the phone with Penske. They said that they will have to send a tow truck to get the truck back to the yard and I exited the cab of the truck (through the passenger side don't worry). On my way out I noticed something on the floor that was wet. I thought that maybe it was the energy drink can in the garbage bag but that turned out to not be the case. When I called the yard back they said that it was most likely the urea system backing into the cab as the hoses for it run through there. This was signs of a serious problem.

We now had to wait for the tow truck because if we left the truck at the side of the road it would be thought of as abandoned by the OPP and they would tow it to impound.

I settled down in the cab of the truck and BT in the car and we farted around on twitter and talked and such just passing the time. They thought that they would have someone there shortly to get the truck and we would be on our way.

We had stopped the truck at about 9:40pm and Penske dispached someone shortly after that. After 2.5 hours of waiting for rescue and no one showing up BT's battery in his car died because he was listening to the radio and running his lights (whoops) and things were getting more serious now. I had phoned a few times and there was little they could do to update us, we were still in a holding pattern. By hour 3 a local tow truck operator pulled in behind us to see what is going on. He informed us that he was the local tow company that has the contract with Penske and that he had not been called on this, there was no information on it.

Turns out that instead of calling the local crew like they were supposed to do they dispached a crew out of Ottawa to get the truck 2 hours away from us. Plus when that yard issued the order to get us there was another huge delay in getting the guy on the road so we still had to wait for him. The local tow truck driver was super nice and boosted BT's car for him and waited with us.

Finally at 2am the tow truck shows up and we are on our way. BT had to work in the morning at 8am so I let him sleep a bit in the car and drove home.

It was a super long day and this was a super long post. I want to that everyone who helped us with this move. We could never have done it all without you.

TL;DR version: We moved, it is an awesome house, truck broke down when we were returning it, stranded on the road for 4 hours, friends are awesome.