Moving out!

Jordan here: Well, we're within 2 weeks now and we just moved out of our apartment. 2 years and 8 months in that one-bedroom apt and it hasn't quite sunk in yet. Sarah diligently worked for a couple weeks packing and cleaning and trying to ease into the move out process. With Jordan's help and help from friends (thanks Kels), we eventually spent nearly every minute of the last morning cleaning the walls, nooks and cracks and dusting everything to the point of stir craziness!! We thought we'd be fine with space in our vehicles moving everything out, and it took us some creative packing, a few extra trips to Goodwill, and every cubic centimeter of space to get it all out and accounted for. But alas, Sarah and I round ourselves sitting on the floor in a spotless empty apartment eating soupy ice cream with a plastic fork waiting for the apartment office lady to come check us out officially. We thought about all the memories that we shared in that little space. Hopefully we'll look back in years and think, "wow we made a lot of stories there" and we'll share laughs about the first place we lived together.
Now we're getting emails from Peace Corps almost every day with more information about our Pre-Service Training (PST) and our departure and how to make it all smooth. We still have a lot to do to get ready, including packing, which then includes unpacking a lot of what we just spent weeks packing...crap.
I think we're just getting the first feelings of "this is really happening" as we say goodbye to friends for a couple years. Driving away from my job for the last time and watching the lakes, apartment complex, university, and everything else we've seen everyday, seeing them in the side mirrors (since I couldn't see out the back window) the bittersweet goodbyes came with the excitement that Africa is just around the corner!!