Last day of work and a weekend of packing

Friday was our last day of work, and I arrived to find a giant plate of cupcakes on my desk from the wonderful Sarah :)  The day was pretty nice and laid back, and I had time to do a thorough job of cleaning my desk and drawers, dealing with my email, and removing as much of my data from my laptop as possible (I would have just formatted it, but we don't have Administrator rights).  There was even time for a quiet and delicious last-day lunch at the Tilbury Hotel with Sarah and Bec.


And then the countdown was over - no more days of work left, and time to kick into top packing gear.  We've got two packing deadlines at the moment - Monday when the removalists arrive to take away our two boxes and two bike boxes which are going to Toronto, and Friday when the other removalists arrive to take everything else to Bendigo.  


Our real estate agent had somewhat annoyingly organised an open-house for the unit at 10am Saturday morning, which required a bit of work to pull off as the house was full of half-empty boxes.  It's always infuriating having a bunch of strangers invade your house and touch your personal belongings without any rights to stop it (the most annoying part is when people put their keys on the table - stop scratching my table!).  We made it through without yelling at anyone, and we'll be out by next Saturday, so nothing further to worry about there.

We were looking at the two huge boxes that we can take to Toronto and wondering how we were going to fill them (when we booked it, I thought they would be half the size), when we hit on the idea of taking a doona with us.  I had a vague memory from my years as a checkout chick of people buying "space saving" bags that you can vacuum the air out of to make things take up a smaller space, so we headed out to Big W to purchase some.  After using them, I'm a bit dubious - instead of squishy, moldable clothes and doonas that you could squash things up against, we ended up with two giant bricks that had no give in them at all.  Oh well.  The idea had merit!

It was a busy weekend - every minute has been spent packing or visiting people and giving them things - and we decided to go for a walk to the shops to chill out for a bit and enjoy the beautiful day.  This is the best time of year to be in Sydney - the days are warm but not hot, the sun is up early and shines brightly all day and it hardly every rains.  Sydney can really turn it on when it wants to - the harbour is so beautiful.  I think we'll really miss it when we're in Toronto.  


We met our weekend goal - the boxes are all ready to go to Canada.  Now it's time for our Farewell Raid with our World of Warcraft team.  Go Pirates!