Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

Oh my goodness, am I tired.  Yesterday I was up at 4 am for an early flight from El Paso to Indianapolis, IN.
It took me a good chunk of the day to get here. Once I did, though, I got to meet up with my daughter.  We grabbed some dinner and then went back to her dorm to finish packing her bins so she could move out of her dorm and into her apartment.  Several hours later, we had to call it a night, and figured we'd have to finish in the morning.
I remember the day she moved into the dorm last year. It was 97 degrees outside, and soooo muggy.  It was also the same day we (including her) met her boyfriend David and his dad, for the very first time.  On one of our hundreds of trips out to our truck to get her "stuff", we were joking with David's dad, saying Jess had at least 13 bins, plus assorted other containers, lamps and furniture. David had 3 bins. We had a good laugh over the differences between them. Little did we know that shortly thereafter, Jess and David would become an "item".  I think he still shakes his head at all her "stuff".
Today was a little different.  The weather was warm, but not in the 90s, luckily for us.  It was just her and I for the day, which is a lot of bin carrying for 2 people.  Not everything went according to plan, but overall, we did great, and got everything done that had to be done.
We started the morning by getting her "checked in" to her new apartment, which basically means we went and got the key, so we could get in once we had her things.  From there we headed to get the small UHaul truck.  My rental car is a Hyundai Accent, a little too small  for bin moving. 
Our first mistake occured at the Uhaul place.  There was no handtruck in the truck and when we asked about it, the woman said she would lend us one if we wanted, but we decided that since they are available for use at the school, and her apartment has parking very close by, we could do without it.  Ha.   I have no idea where all the carts were at  the school, but there was more than a  1 hour wait for the next available cart, AND you had to stand there in line to wait for it.  Huh? It made no sense at all, but  no one seemed anxious to change the rule anytime soon.  We immediately started calling David in the building next door to see if he could grab one, which he did (once we woke him up), luckily for us!
Stepping out of the elevator after one of our trips down, Jess dropped her keys, including the new one to the apartment. As unbelievable as it seems, the keys fell into the gap in the floor, down the elevator shaft.  The elevator company had to be called to  come out and retrieve them.  While we waited for that (3 hours) we ate lunch and finished packing the truck. 
Eventually we made it to the apartment, dropped everything into her room, and returned the truck. On the way back we stopped at about 3 "dollar" type store to pick up some cheap supplies.  By that time we were ready for dinner, so we stopped for that too, and made it back to the apartment at around 7 pm.  After spending 2 hrs unpacking we made another trip, this time to Walmart, for more supplies. 
I finally left to go back to the hotel at around 11 pm.
Tomorrow we have more errands and unpacking, but Jess also has to work at 4 pm, so it will be a short day for us.