A comedy of errors!

A comedy of errors! Thats the best way I can think of to describe the chain of events yesterday that involved the delivery of our house.

It all started out very wonderfully, actually! As I was coming home from Everett after having just been flying, I ended up getting behind and following the trucks pulling the two halves of our house. That was pretty awesome, as I was able to call home and sound the alert for them to get everything in order. As we made our way up to our house, we passed the Kennedy's house, and they were all jubilantly out in the yard video-taping and taking pictures of this fateful day. After forcing many cars off of the road, we finally made it to our property.

After making it around the two trucks I hurridley drove to the back of property to watch the proceedings with all who had gathered to watch. All told there was probably about 25 people gathered to watch this momentous occasion, including the Kennedy's, and multiple neighbors. No pressure on the guys bringing it in or anything, as we were only photographig every little move they made.

To start the comedy of errors, while they were pulling the trailers off of the road, they bent the axel on one, and blew one of the tires out on the other. After this little escapade, they realized that they had set up the site wrong, so they were going to have to BACK the trailers all the way into position! That was fairly interesting, and in the midst of backing the back half onto the foundation, they got their little towing tractor stuck. They then attempted to get it unstuck using their truck and only succeeded in getting it stuck. So, with a little bit of shovel work, and couple of huffs and puffs, we managed to get them unstuck.

Then they found that they had started putting it in at the wrong angle, and had to get it remaneuvered. And finally after almost two hours, they got the back half onto the foundation, after which I left for work. I was told however, that they then spent until dark trying to get the other trailer unstuck, because they had parked it on unknowingly on a patch of ground that was just soft enough for the 40,000 lb half of our house to sink into the ground. So they came out this morning to get the other half moved on to the concrete.

To top it all off, however, they also forgot to add in the fourth bedroom, which incidentially happens to be Alex and I's room. And they forgot to take out a half wall which we asked them to. And that is more or less the saga of our home!