Moving in part 1

So, we changed the name of our blog to reflect our continued adventures and I guess I should tell you about some of the adventures of relocating to Michigan when your stuff is in storage in Indiana, your mail and tax papers are in Texas and you are visiting in Florida!
When we put an offer on the house, we were about to leave for a visit to FL for 3 weeks. We arranged the closing for March 1st. On our return to MI Feb. 25 we called the storage company to arrange delivery of the furniture only to get a message that the number was "no longer in service"! So we called the company where we had been sending the checks and got the same message! Started wondering if they had sold our possessions! Maybe good, maybe not...all our family heirlooms...all new furnishing. So we hunted down the parent company number and finally got a real person. Unfortunately she was not sure where our "stuff" was, but promised to call back after she looked into it. And "didn't you get a letter?" Well, no we hadn't. "You should have".
Next we called our daughter to have her check the stack of mail our son had sent to MI. Sure enough she found a letter from the moving company telling us the company had closed and sent all our things to Defiance Ohio and gave a number to call. Mind you the letter was dated Feb 5th, 2010. Not exactly a long time. We had sent the check for January and February to the billing company (remember they were closed too). About this time we were starting to get a bit anxious.
So we called the new storage company number and as soon as I mentioned my name the person on the other end said, "Oh, your name has been floating around the office all day. I will have my boss call you later"! To sum it all up, they found our things and arranged the delivery for Wednesday after closing. Cross your fingers.....