It's Moving Day!

Well, we're finally here. That means that hopefully I should be back to paying my poor neglected blog a little more attention from now on. Because it is moving day, though, this one's gonna be a pretty short post.

This whole move has been one of those experiences that just goes to show that things never go according to plan. First, our storage unit where our stuff was going to live for two weeks until we could move in was initially supposed to be part of a Uhaul one months' free storage deal. Upon our arrival, we found out that this particular storage place is not actually a part of that promotion, despite being featured as such on the website. This did not impress us much, although the folks at Lo Cost Mini Storage here in Calgary were totally awesome about it, and apologized, and only charged us two weeks storage instead of a month because they wanted to make us happier. I still wasn't impressed with Uhaul, because why list the storage as part of that promo if it isn't? However, what really annoyed us in this moving process was when we realized on the 30th that Uhaul had lost our reservation for a truck to do an in-town move. By this time, of course, there were no trucks available, either. Lo Cost Mini Storage came through for us again, though, and gave us a number to call. Got us a truck and three guys to help move stuff- more expensive that Uhaul would have been, but it got us moved on the right day, so we're gonna class that one as a win, and are again quite happy with Lo Cost for helping us out.

Of course, this morning, the truck got loaded no problem, but then we got to our building and the elevator was out. After an hour, we got it working, but that hour adds considerable extra cost to this whole process, so all in all, I'm glad we like the place we got, because I don't think we can afford to move again for a while!

So, if you need storage in Calgary, we recommend Lo Cost Mini Storage on Burbank Rd. They were very nice, and very helpful. So far the best part of the whole experience.