Thursday 24 June 2010

Migration

Palo Alto and Mountain View are popular places to move to in Northern California (for those that can't make it to Walnut Creek...) Elad, with two cats and a dog, has already made it down there and today it was the turn of the Singers. Hannah and I popped back to Uni Village (it's been so long!) to help them out.

Luckily a removal company had been hired to help them out as well, and aside from a little picture hook removal I didn't have to strain myself. With the 24-foot truck all packed, Elliot headed off.

Unfortunately, being a dentist rather than a truck driver, he took an uphill corner a little too quickly and embedded the back of the van in the tarmac, leaving the wheels spinning freely and several irate drivers stuck behind him. Thankfully Elise and his mother were around to sort out a tow truck, and he finally appeared at their new house only slightly more panicked and scared-looking than usual.

After overseeing the unpacking we made the short hop down to Elad's new place in Mountain View, where Noozy, Fry and Nimitz have settled in well. Outside of Tel Aviv, this place must have the highest concentration of Israeli entrepreneurs in the world. Elad fits right in...and is available to babysit the Singer girls whenever asked!



The truck, pre-tarmac gouging.



Hannah and Elise sort the princesses' room.



Fry, previously winner of world's-most-antisocial-cat, has obviously been affected by the Mountain View air.



What do you do when your Rock Band colleagues live far away? Do it all yourself! Phil Collins would be proud.