So, first off....WoW people never stop amazing me. The Wright family...enough cant be said for how generous and helpful they were. I honestly don't know how to say thank you enough.
Chris and family, SUUUCH a nice family, crazy the kind of hospitality they gave. I hope one day I can pass that along! Not only donating half to the local school PTA but another half for Emily they even offered to help with the lifting...CrAzY nice! Also thanks to Donnie and Tri for letting me borrow your tank moving stuff (I will be by today after work whenever is convenient to drop it back off at your house, just let me know), would not have gotten anywhere without it!
Leave my house at about 6:45pm, stop by Donnie's for the equipment, realized that I forgot towels back at my house so we stopped at the Dollar general store for some towels (that weren't a dollar??? why is it called the dollar store??) After the stop we were off headed to Dallas. We had a few catches with the GPS thing but got there in good time @ about 8:15pm. We pull up to the house and are just amazed at how nice this house is...after we got focused again we started moving stuff in. Cheryl started pumping the water out, Little Ricky was in the tank and Ricky and I were holding the buckets while he put the live rock in. Ricky and I would then take the buckets from the living room to the truck...one zillion buckets later all the rock was in the truck. Ricky Sr. grabbed the urchin and put him away while Little Ricky caught the fish! Finally after we had the entire tank broken down my other friends show up to help us move the tank. That thing was HEAVY! We backed the truck up to the garage and us 7 guys carried that tank from the living room to the truck! (Yes one of the 7 was the owner Chris...I told you they were nice!) I think we left their house around 11:30ish? We got to my house around 12:30pm and floated the fish and started taking stuff out of the trucks (3 of them). Little Ricky and I grabbed the stand and started for my front door........funny joke....stand is bigger than my door! (not a fun thing at midnight) The Ricky's suggest taking the sliding back door out to fit it through. It's a good thing they were there or I would have ended up just sleeping in the stand for the night. After taking the doors out and bringing the stand in it was time for the tank...HA I think it got heavier! Of course it rained so we had to go through slippery mud just to make sure we were paying attention...then we accidentally scrapped the bottom of the tank on the linoleum floor...(anyone that knows how to patch that or if its possible...that would be awesome b/c my wife was not happy about that one
) We finally got the tank on the stand...wow it looks WAYY bigger in my tiny house! So the last thing we gotta get is the LR, A lot faster when we have more people. Everyone was just filling buckets and taking them in the house. Finally the Wright's could go home! (they event tried to stay longer and help...I told you they were awesome!) My buddy's all went home. I let the fishies out into my 210G (Cheryl had already be acclimating while we were moving) and continued to put LR into my two running tanks until I couldn't fit anything else in there! Finally I got to take a shower and got to bed around 4:30ish...Whew what a night! Again Thanks to all (and my wife for letting me live after bringing this home) that helped, there is no way I could have done any of this without everyone that helped.....THANKS!!!
Dive Dive Dive!!
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This thing is tall!
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Wow...hope I'm not afraid of hights!
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I'm going in!
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Sure did smell good
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That may be where I passed out for a sec.
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Finallllly
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Using those muscles
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Acclimation is fun
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Hope this is back up by the time my wife gets in!
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Can't we just get done?!
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He is real proud of that thing.
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Did we really move this huge thing?!
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Makes 210 look small!
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LOTS OF ROCK
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LOTS OF ROCK CONTINUED...don't even look in the sumps.
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Anyone know how this works?
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How about now?
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Front shot...just needs a little buffing.
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