Coachella Propels Us Forward

Here are two sad testaments to abruptly leaving a country - the chair had a "FREE" sign on it.







Rupal and I are in Sydney, Australia. Describing the events leading up to this would be incredibly boring due to the administrative nature of packing, selling, shipping, and moving; we will try our very best to keep this from being a laundry list of things that have happened, and rather paint an engaging (get it, engaging) story of how drasticly our lives have been altered, and hopefully shed some light on the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa, Osama Bin Laden, and perhaps Waldo.

Here is the first rule of moving internationally - I think it was invented by a physicist. It's called Murphy's Law. Basically whatever could possibly go wrong in any given situation will go wrong. I think Murphy's law is dependant upon making assumptions, because he was a physicist. And a complete jerk.

Assuming these are good ideas would lead any mathmatical formula to blow up:

1. Rupal moving to Sydney without Josh
2. Rupal moving to Sydney without a visa
3. Rupal moving to Sydney without a return ticket
4. Josh moving to Sydney without a job
5. Josh selling all of the crap he has accumulated from being a packrat for 26 years
6. Josh spending his last 2 weeks in the US traveling MDW->LGA->MDW->ORD->ALB->LGA->ORD->MDW->STL->CHI (via train)->MDW->LAX->NAN (FIJI)->SYD
   
7. Just to clarify, that is 13 airports in about 16 days
8. Shipping over 500lbs of womens shoes and pashminas
   
9. Dr. Veramendi getting a doctorate
10. Dr. Veramendi sending chest x-ray's the the Australian government when this is his sole responsibility
11. Dr. Veramendi being one of two doctors in Chicago who are certified to do this task
12. Dr. Veramendi not being the most incompetent doctor on planet earth
13. Giving Josh enough free time to have any creative expression whatsoever
14. Proposing to the woman you love 3 days before she flys to another country, continent, time zone, date, and season

Things we've told ourselves:

• "Making false assumptions is a part of living, right?"
  
• "Some day we'll look back on all this and laugh laugh laugh" (What Rupal said at 9pm when I was on the floor pinned between the two wheels of my new bike while trying to move it down stairs with a heavy spider plant).
• "Why is everything so difficult in this country?"
• Why do all apartments come with dryers, but not washers? Actually this is a government mandate. Any flat's which have a washer connection must have a dryer in the apartment.
• Why do no apartments come with fridges? No reason. Just to make things difficult.
  

Best Idea I ever had:

• Starting a joint bank account the minute I'm unemployed
  

Just so you don't stop reading now, here is our photoblog. fotblog. Picturlog. Pictures:

Why my last day of packing was so difficult

Welcome to Fiji


Welcome to the Blue Mountains


Welcome to Asian food paradise

Cut Copy - Bring Like Neon Love Is Right


We live THATAWAY about 4 blocks East of Hyde Park


Randoms of Sydney - Paddy Markets, crazy tree sculpture, and MC DONALDS?????


If you were wondering why our visas were held up:
Rupal killed this poor baby kangaroo. The Aussies weren't too happy about that.


So now we are busy with setting up our new flat. Last night the "relocaters" made 4 stops! We now own a fridge, a washing machine, a bed, a patio table and chairs, and a tv that is basically hand held. Send some love!