Halloween does not make for a good moving day

Saturday 10/31/09 (Note to self: Halloween is not a good night to be towing a trailer and moving into a residential area at night.

8 AM: Pick up a few more supplies at Home Depot and pick up our UHaul trailer.
After our first load to our new house the plumber arrived. He was there to fix the water heater, and install the toilet and new sink in the master. At first he attempted to tell us the entire house needed to be re-piped, which was later recanted after taking a better look at the copper pipes. First thing that’s gone right.

While unpacking trip 3, we hear some not so friendly words from the plumber and learn that the on/off valve for our water has snapped off, on the city side. Our water was stuck in the off position and now the city was going to have to replace the valve before we’ll have running water. The thought of a baby wipe “shower” before work on Monday wasn’t too comforting. The city water emergency line told me they had one emergency crew in all of Phoenix and of course they were currently on a job Although we were next in line, it was still estimated that we wouldn’t see help for another couple of hours. The initial call was made at 2:00.

Trip 4 we make together (our plumber was still working at the house), but after unloading my singlehanded trip 5 we decide to wait it out together. We use our time wisely and work on the house and hand out Halloween candy. The highlight of the night was a killer bunny. Awesome!!. Sometime after 8:00 the emergency crew arrives with two huge trucks, the larger of the two towing a gigantic tractor. We learn that they had just be dealing with a main break. Sure I suppose that could have taken a little longer than the usual emergency call. Within about 15 minutes they were able to fix the problem and again we were back to civilization with our running water. Hooray!!! We made it back to the apartment for our last load and to clean, and of course we don’t have the proper tool to take apart the bed. Our bed frame enjoyed one last night in the apartment.