Plan ZZ

You know... in life not everything happens the way we first plan things, thus the expression "Plan B" or even "Plan C". Well, today, Ocotber 14th, Joel and I are already in "Plan ZZ", LOL!

NOTHING, absolutely nothing, except for good health and God's guidance, came out as we first planned back in May 10th, when we left Hong Kong.

If you read my last post, you already know that life, as we knew it, is finally showing itself in the horizon and therefore about to happen again. It's a wonderful feeling!

The only missing piece for the above scenario is the arrival of our containers which have, at last, been loaded onto a vessel coming down to Panama. But honestly, this is so so so freaking frustrating that it becomes funny and Joel and I have managed to laugh about this "Plan ZZ".

So, their last chapter goes like this:
- the containers arrived in New York on September 25th.
- missed the first vessel to Panama because.... nobody knows.
- were scheduled to be loaded onto the next vessel, 1 week later
- missed this one too, because they had to be x-rayed by US customs, despite the fact that their final destination is Panama and not the US.
- then... US customs decided to open both containers to inspect them inside and...
- ... because we have so much stuff, and because the containers had been packed in HK in a puzzle-like way, Joel got an email saying that they were having trouble putting it all back inside again, can you believe it??
- then we got another email saying that they had finally managed to fit it all inside and that the containers had been placed at the end of the loading queue. They were not sure there would be enough time to load them onto today's vessel.

So the flavor of the day was something like " hang in there" type of mood, as we didn't know the outcome of this particular soap opera and then voila... Joel has just told me that "YES, THE CONTAINERS ARE FINALLY ON THEIR LAST STRETCH, heading to Panama!!

They have survived Somalian waters infested with pirates, heavy African bureaucracy, the Cape of Good Hope troubled winter waters twice and the strict procedures of US customs!! Hoorray!! Not so sure what the 100 year old plus crystal glasses think about that, LOL, I'll tell you later!