The Journey Begins!!!

Laura:
Hello World!!! LorAx here....aka Laura and Alex...aka Foof and Walex... We've started this blog to keep an awesome record of our journey to Rochester, New York. For those who don't know, we're moving to Rochester because I (Laura) will be starting medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in August. WOO HOO!!!! Pursuing a career in medicine has been a lifelong dream (and struggle) for me, so I am SUPER excited to be starting school in just a few short weeks. Alex, my dear and loving boyfriend, is coming along for the ride! We'll be living and working in Rochester for at least the next four years, so we are going to use this blog as a place to keep track of all our adventure and misadventures as we explore our wonderful new home town. Hopefully this blog will function as a place to communicate with friends and family while we're so far from home and be a fun place to learn about all the neat things there are to do in our area.

So.....here.....we.....GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Today the movers came to pack up all our belongings so they can begin their trek up to Rochester. We've been in a packing frenzy for the last week and stayed up pretty late last night to get everything finished, so we were definitely ready to relax and let the workers move all our junk into the truck this morning (especially in this St. Louis summer heat!!! Heat index of 109....whoa!). Thanks to everyone who took stuff away from our apartment over the last week or so (my parents, Alex's parents, my sister, my sister's boyfriends, old friends, new friends, everybody!). We definitely had a lot!!! Thank you to Rick and Alice for stopping by yesterday to help us pack, clear out unneeded items, and have tasty Chinese take-out for dinner. Just what we needed!

The movers arrived around 8 am this morning and thanks to some preemptive NO PARKING signs (courtesy of the Clayton Police Department) there was plenty of room for them to park their giant 18-wheeler. Things went really well during the loading process...everything was inventoried, furniture wrapped, boxes lugged, and then the apartment was empty. <SAD> Now we're just hanging out with our "bare essentials" (Xbox....computer....millions of clothes....you know the essentials....lol) and trying to decide how to spend our last days in St. Louis. Hopefully we'll have plenty of time to see friends and family ONE MORE TIME before we head up to Rochester. That's it for me.....Alex.....got anything to add......?

Alex:
Well maybe Foof has millions of clothes packed!  I'm just hoping I kept enough work shirts around for the rest of the week...  If we're still in STL this time next week I might have to start borrowing.  We're just hanging out in our back room now, in our little camp we created from stuff we didn't put on the truck.  Here's a shot Laura just took of me sitting amongst the mess writing in this blog:

We'll have to go back sometime soon and put up some pictures of all our going-away outings and the extravaganza at our place a couple weeks ago.  That's where the real fun stuff is. 

Finally, a shot of our place all empty and echo-y.  haow!  so sad!

There will be plenty of exciting pics of our place in Rochester as we unpack and get our new home put together.  Stay tuned!