How to bridge funds from Polygon to Arbitrum Nova to buy Moons

Last week during moonplace mania FOMO hit me hard. However, I did not want to sacrifice any of the moons from my reddit vault. I did however have enough funds in shitcoins on polygon to buy a few plots. So I decided to convert them into wEth (wrapped eth) on polygon, bridge the wEth to Arbitrum Nova, buy moons, and then the plots. This simple sounding task turned into a Tolkin worthy adventure. Therefore, I decided to share my steps with anyone else who wants to buy moons. Also, I'm curious if anyone knows of a better way of doing this.

Please note: yes, in theory one could carry out these steps in reverse to sell one's moons, and bridge them to polygon. However, this will tear a hole right through the space time continuum and doom us all! Therefore, the steps below are only intended for buying moons!

First, the easy part, add Arbitrum-Nova to Metamask. Under settings, click on 'Networks', then 'Add network'. Then fill in the following:

Network Name: arb-nova
RPC: https://nova.arbitrum.io/rpc
Chain ID: 42170
Currency Symbol: ETH
Block Explorer URL: https://nova-explorer.arbiscan.io

Now, assuming you have your funds in weth on polygon, we are ready to bridge. This felt like the most risky step during my moon plots buying adventure. I could not find any official recommendations anywhere regarding which bridge to use. Bridging via connext network was mentioned on multiple threads bu users. Doubt and FOMO were battling things out in my mind at this point. But damn it, I wanted my moon plots! So I made a blood sacrifice to some demon and tried my luck with connext. From within metamask's browser go to:

https://v1.bridge.connext.network/ETH-from-polygon-to-arbitrum_nova

and connect wallet. The next part required patience. Specified weth polygon to eth on nova. The site kept freezing. Also got messages regarding liquidity issues. Eventually though it asked me to confirm and I rolled the dice. Half expected to lose my funds to the void, but to my amazement they eventually showed up on nova. There are a few "confirm" steps along the way that one has to wait for.

Overall bridging via connext was the most annoying and clunky step of this process. If anyone knows a better bridge let everyone know! This step took two hours with all the liquidity messages and site freezing issues.

Next, switch to Nova in Metamask, and add moons. Click on 'Add token', 'Custom token' and then copy and paste the following information into the correct fields:

Token Contract Address: 0x0057Ac2d777797d31CD3f8f13bF5e927571D6Ad0 Token Symbol: MOON Token Decimal: 18

Then, once you have eth on Nova you are ready to buy moons, e.g., via sushi swap:

https://app.sushi.com

And, congratulations, you are done. You have converted your random shitcoins from polygon into Digital Moon Cheese. Connext will also have wasted hours of your life. But overall you are probably winning....

Update 1: As pointed out by u/Giga79 and others, orbiter finance is a better alternative for the bridging step. Also seen it since on the original "moons are going to mainnet post".