And Then There Were Three....

.....refrigerators.

Tomorrow will mark not only the first day of our fifth year of marriage, but also the arrival of fridge #3 into our apartment, thus ending our six day adventure without refrigeration. To be fair, two of those days were spent in Brussels, so really we've only had to suffer four days without, and luckily we're both on vacation and can thus share the required daily shop for food.

You might be asking yourself why we are getting a third fridge.

It's not so much a 'third' fridge as a replacement for our current fridge which no longer works.

Why doesn't it work? you might be wondering.

We seem to have a problem with fridges/freezers and too much ice (but never enough of the kind that you put in your drink!). Our fridge on Augusta Ave in Toronto used to freeze under the freezer compartment, then defrost, melting the water all over the floor. Erik perfected the technique of chipping the accumulated ice off the fridge with a screwdriver....see where this is going?

Our current bar sized fridge doesn't have a separate freezer, just one of those useless freezer compartments, that regularly becomes so frozen over that not only can you no longer retrieve whatever it was you were stupid enough to put in there but you also can't close the door. Erik settled in for what will have been (hopefully!) his last freezer de-icing session, and near the end the screwdriver 'slipped', and all I saw was a big cloud of smoke (think dry ice), heard Erik say some choice words and slam the fridge door. Then he asked me how late Darty was open (well, first he asked me to Google and find out if refridgerant is toxic. Apparently not, and the same chemical is used in asthma inhalers??).

Off we went to our neighbourhood Darty, a store that always irritates me because it's always way too hot. So hot that all you want to do is get the heck out, which I imagine can't be good for business, but in the three years we've been living here, they've never installed air conditioning.

Turns out Darty is really helpful, in that they don't keep a stock of big appliances at the store (it was a Saturday afternoon, and we were ready to carry a fridge in a box the three blocks home), but they do offer free delivery and removal of old appliances. Great! Only problem is that it takes two business days. And because it was Saturday, that would have brought us to Tuesday at the earliest, and our train to Brussels left at 6:24am. Which brings us back to the present, anxiously looking forward to tomorrow afternoon when we can go to the store and buy things like cheese! And yogurt!!

Man, our life is exciting!!

Stay tuned for a more interesting post about our trip to Brussels. We decided today that the overall theme of the trip was along the lines of 'Beer Nouveau, Solo'.....