Packing it up

We are closing in on our last thirty days here. Doesn't see possible, yet as I walk around my almost empty apartment, reality is beginning to hit. Our shipment leaves for the US tomorrow. Packing has been interesting, so glad we started early. When the initial quote was over $3500, I was in shock!
Tomorrow I get to finish itemizing all items, assigning a value and ( cough) forking over the money. We will get about 1/3 of the cost provided to us by the school ...which would not happen in the US for sure.
Seems like so little, yet it represents five years of our lives, travelling and collecting. I am thinking of my mother in law who would have had to pack up an entire working life in their final shipment back to the US.
The only time I cried( just a little) was when the magnet collection came off the fridge.
It's like life...we enter the world with nothing and we leave with nothing.
Inshallah we will meet up with all our treasures in 60 days or less!

Just some crazy shots from Kuwait

As we are wrapping up our time here in the desert, here are a few photos of images we ave seen over the past five years.

Booked it!

Finally a trip with Ben and Jolene! Heading to Prague in June . Happy mamma

Last run through the Friday Market

What goes up, must come down

Started the process of packing for real yesterday by taking things off the wall and gathering it in one room. Had two companies come for a quote. One thinks we have 4.5 cubic meters and the other thinks we have 6... Same stuff! It will take about 60 days for the items to get to PR. Sounds like the route is lots of fun...maybe I will pack myself in the carton.

Unfortunately Germo won't be packed in the box .

The incredible Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi

With friends CH and IR

Too much culture in one evening

Finally visited the House of Mirrors. One woman's life's work decorating her house with mirrors. Unbelievable!