We're here, we're finally HERE!

After all the luggage fiasco, all the swollen eyes, we're finally here in San Jose, California. The flight was nice and I played catch up on all the TV programs onboard watching Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Bones and Curb Your Enthusiasm. That was during the flight from SIN to Korea. The 2nd part, I watched the movie "Over my dead body - starring Eva Longoria". Movie was boring and the storyline was so passe. After that, it was back to studying the CA Driver Handbook 2008 to prepare myself for the driving theory test which I think we'll probably do on coming Mon, 21 July so that we can get our driving licence. We arrived at 12.30pm on Friday, 18 July SFO time and Ed had arranged for a limousine to pick us up as well as rent a car coz one car won't be enough to put all our baggage. I sat in the limo (costs us US$147 in total, ouch! ouch!) with 8 boxes and my 2 tennis rackets but it was a smooth ride to Homewood Suites, the hotel where we'll be staying temporarily till our home is ready and cleaned. Ed and Sam took the rest of the luggage and rented a 4 wheel drive and I met them at the hotel b4 we took everything that was not needed in the hotel to our home at 5230 Thorncreek. Met Allyson, our realtor cum coordinator at 4pm and she handed us the keys to our home together with tons of mails for our reading (omigosh, the sales people here are super efficient as everybody seems to know that we're new and that ranges from the handyman to the grocers to the gardeners etc advertising their products). Also, taught us the ropes of the house as to how to maintain the pool, set the house alarm on and off and letting us know where all the fuse boxes are etc. We realized that the house needed carpet cleaning and a thorough washing so, will probably do that next week. We also found out that our shipment that was shipped from Malaysia on June 13 have arrived. So, tomorrow, gotta give Crown the relevant documents so that they can proceed with the customs clearance and hopefully, by end of next week, we can start unpacking.

Tomorrow, we will be visiting Costco, CK Furniture, Toyota Sunnyvale, Thomasville Furniture, Giorgi Bros Furniture, Macy's Union Furniture, Magnussen Toyota and Sleeptrain. I guess you know what we're buying right? Yup, furniture, particularly bedroom furniture for Sam's and master bedroom and cars. Thanks to Belinda and Pat for showing us the ropes as to where to buy furniture. Hopefully, we'll have some luck and can find some C&G (cheap and good) stuff. There are some sales on this weekend at JC Penny and Macy's so, may go there too for linen shopping. Got too much to buy and I am overwhelmed. But gotta take one baby step at a time.

Oh, b4 I sign off, here's the good news. We praised God that All my curry pastes (curry kapitan, gulai tumis, fish curry and sambal belacan) went through customs without a blip and in fact, out of the 10 baggage we checked in, they only scanned 2 and no major questions asked, phew! That was my main worry coz the box that contained the curry was really looking like a belacan itself as it looked and smell soggy (more like wet socks, ewwww....). The Jack Russell Terrier at the airport which was trained to smell drugs must've got it's senses knocked off when it smelt that box, hahaha.

Last but not least, all praises belongs to God for granting us journey mercies, patience in the eyes of impatience and lotsa grace and mercies taking us all the way from Penang to San Jose, CA. Good nite and miss you all...