Even though our summer was very short, we had a blast. I'm giving a short summary here of what we did and you all can check out all that stuff as you are looking at the pictures. We used an ABF moving company to transport our belongings to Indianapolis. It was very affordable. It came out to be a lot cheaper than renting a moving truck like Uhaul. We'll definitely use ABF again when we move from Indy to Loma Linda, CA next summer. Our apartment was emptied as of May, 25. After we loaded our things into the moving truck, we stayed with grandma and grandpa in Boca Raton for a week. We ate and and played scrabble all day long. It was so much fun and I really miss doing that with grandma Mina and hanging out with Jake and Casey. We also miss going to beaches these days, but we will have plenty of opportunities when we are in CA next summer.
We arrived in Indy on June 2nd with a rental car. We were in a rental car for over two months down in Miami, but now we needed to buy one since we are all moved in. Searching for a car was not an easy task. It was so stressful, but we found one. We bought a 2005 Ford Fivehundred from the original owner and the car still has roughly three years of warranty. We love the car and Isaac babies it. Buying a Ford was not what we had in mind, we were searching for hondas and toyotas. We are super happy with our AWD Ford.
We went to visit Alla and Asher two hours after we bought the car. Our original plan was to visit CA and WY, but with our move it didn't work instead we went to Waukegan. We were able to do so many fun things together. We went to Wisconsin twice to see the Public Museum in Kenosha and the Jelly Bean factory in Pleasant Praire. We went to Downtown Chicago couple times to the Aquarium and the Lincoln Park Zoo. We filled our days with something to do like going for a ride on a paddle boat at Independence Grove and playing games at the park. We were always going somewhere during the day and after the kids were in bed, we played games in the evening that went into late night. Also, Alla baby-sat Isaac while we were at the Chicago Temple. We could not have asked for a better time. They only live 3 1/2 hrs drive from us and it is a very nice drive.