Packin' Up and Movin' Out

Crazy probably best describes our moving week.

The movers showed up to our apartment bright and early Monday morning to start packing us up. It took them just about 2 full days to pack our things and wrap our furniture in preparation to be loaded into the container on Wednesday. We had originally planned on staying in the apartment until Wednesday, but after we were left with only a few kitchen items Monday night and our internet was turned off early,
 we decided to check into a hotel a day early.

The container was waiting for us when we arrived Wednesday morning and the movers spent most of the day loading all of our belongings onto the lift through the windows.

Thursday morning we dropped the kids off at a friends house and finished cleaning the apartment for the inspection that was going to happen that day. We had heard from friends that the apartment inspections were pretty thorough. It ended up taking two inspectors two hours to go through the apartment and we were relieved to be only charged 215 euros for the things they found wrong.

Having already returned the car and with all of our things pack up and shipped off, we felt relieved and slightly strange to walk away from the apartment with nothing but a city trash bag with touch up paint and a Belgian license plate that we had kept for a souvenir.

We stopped by the cafe around the corner for a beer and ended up running into several people we knew and said our final goodbyes. It was a nice way to finish off our last 24 hours in Belgium. For us, that was the way things were while we were here - being outside and enjoying the city as much as we could and randomly running into people we knew who were often doing the same. It was an emotional few days. There is no doubt that we will miss Antwerp.