Adventures in Packing

I've been home for one week and I have accomplished many things! I have done all my laundry, hung up all of the clothes I own, gone through all of my apartment stuff, selected and packed things to ship to New York and gathered and packed everything for Europe. Whew! I still have many things to do before I leave tomorrow at 3:40pm for Heathrow and then Athens, but I thought I'd share my packing progress.  I know it's not the most thrilling of topics, but packing has made up the entirety of my life this past week. 

First -- Books! Books were the hardest, as I have a great many of them, and I'm fairly attached to all of them..... I limited myself as much as a I could 

Then..... everything else: 

Bandit was a huge help

Space Bags are my new best friend

All prepped to ship to NYC!

 

And then the Europe Packing:
I am basically taking a backpack, because we are moving around so much (pack light pack light pack light).  However, my trip IS seven weeks. . . and I know I'm going to end up buying a few things for the new apartment. . . so I'm stuffing a duffel bag at the bottom of my backpack.  I'm hoping I won't have to take it out until the end of July, but we'll see.

Step One

Step Two

Packed and Ready to Adventure!

Now it's time to triple check that I have everything, finish writing thank-you cards, take care of tons of Columbia paperwork and clean off my desk (ha).  Next time I'll be blogging, I'll be in Greece! AH! This whole experience is completely surreal.  Ciao!