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Thursday, September 23, 2010

New York Adventure: Day 2

8:00 am- Woke up to a wonderful smelling breakfast!!!
8:30 am- Got ready
9:30 am- I guess I should mention the Lord is amazing. Although this New York adventure has been crazy thus far, He has put wonderful people in our way to help us (Claire, Joe and Elder and Sister Hibbert). The Hibbert’s main responsibility as missionaries is to do the moving for the Elders and Sisters. They help with transfers and getting them all set up. Because of this, they said we could use some of the mission’s furniture that was in storage.  So at this time we drove to the storage unit and got a bunch of kitchen supplies. We will also be getting to dressers and two chairs here shortly. This definitely took a lot of pressure off Todd and I. This adventure has not been cheap so a little savings has been wonderful. Thank you!!!
10:00 am- Said good-bye to the Hibbert’s and made our way back to Jersey City
10:45 am- Walked to Chase to get the deposit. Gus is very popular here
11:00 am- Someone asked me for directions…hahahaha. I told her I’d heard of the street before but that was it
11:15 am- Got the keys to our apartment. It felt like we had never rented an apartment before
11:30 am- Moved all our stuff into the apartment.
12:30 pm- Went to Rent-A-Center, didn’t rent anything…
1:00 pm- Went to Target, realized we would spend more money here than at Wal-Mart, and they didn’t have everything we need so we drove to Kearny to go to Wal-Mart
1:15 pm- Had troubles with my insurance…sigh
1:30 pm- Shopped till two carts were too full…still need to go back to Target because this Wal-Mart doesn’t have produce…sigh
3:00 pm- Made it back to our apartment and cleaned
5:30 pm- Headed back to Wal-Mart to return some shower curtains (the master bath has a tub but it was too dirty and has a huge window that people can see in so we decided to save $25 on two shower curtains and a curtain rod).
6:00 pm- Went to Claire and Joe’s house to get their air mattress… Thanks again!!
6:15 pm- Filled up the rental car with gas and headed to Newark Airport to return the car by 7:00pm
6:20 pm- Realtor called and said landlord wasn’t happy about the dog…. pretty much thought we were getting kicked out
6:30 pm- Hit traffic and tons of rain
6:54 pm- Made it to the car rental place with six minutes to spare
7:05 pm- Rode the Newark train to the other end of the airport
7:25 pm- Realized we got off at the wrong spot and got back on and went in reverse
7:40 pm- Got out of the Newark Airport and waited for a bus
7:40 pm- Got on the bus and almost died because the bus driver started moving before I was holding onto something
8:15 pm- Got dropped off at Newark Penn Station to catch the Path Train to get to Jersey City. Got a little confused but finally got on the right train
8:40 pm- Walked from the Grove Station to our apartment
8:50 pm- Realtor called and said we won’t be getting kicked out of the apartment, we just need to pay a deposit for the dog…dang dog
9:00 pm- Todd steamed his shirt and we made up our bed
9:15 pm- Ashleigh realized Gus’s shampoo leaked and got all over Gus’s things and some of her stuff…spent 20 minutes washing things out
9:45 pm- Made some tuna fish sandwiches for dinner
10:15 pm- Got all stressed about finances…this adventure is expensive!!!
11:00 pm- Watched two episodes of FRIENDS
12:00 am- Went to sleep!

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