Friday, April 18, 2008

Swabos land in STL- Earth moves!!

We are all moved into our new house in STL!! The move went very smoothly, thank goodness. We have finally unpacked the last box this morning and are in the final phases of straightening things up. Just in time as Mike and I both start work on Monday. I am so excited to start my new position but it will be so hard to go back to working a regular work week after the past 6 months. Cole finished his first week of his new day care. The mornings are rough with all the screaming and crying but it is slowing getting better with each day. Maybe by Christmas he will be okay with it 8-)

Apparently, STL was so excited to see us too that the ground actually shook!! J/K. I know everyone has heard about the earthquake this morning. Here's our take...

Mike and I were sound asleep when we were awakened by the house shaking. I just laid in bed wondering what was going on while Mike was telling me to stop shaking the bed. Not believing that it was really an earthquake- it is the Midwest after all- we were afraid that we bought a lemon of a house with something seriously wrong with it (ah, the rationality of middle-of-the-night thinking). As I had never been through an earthquake before, I was pretty freaked out. The shaking was remarkably rhymic. We turned the radio and TV on wanting to see if it was an eathquake but there was nothing on. It wasn't until Kyle called us that we knew what happened. Crazy. We hope all our friends in Terre Haute are safe- I think they were closer to it than us.

Hope all is well with everyone!! Later.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear that all is going well with your move! We did NOT realize you were in the middle of the earthquake zone!!! CRAZY!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Your THBFF managed to survive the quake...but with a butt this big, I knew I wouldn't fall through the cracks :) BW, PD, and I were all sitting at our cubes when one of the after shocks hit, too...

PS.I'd like to see some pics of your house with your stuff in it.

Anonymous said...

I am sorry I woke mike @ 6am. I did not know you were already in the STL.