Home Sweet Home

Moving tip #4: Moving is a lot easier when you don't have any furniture.

It's hard to believe that in 24hours we went from not being packed at all to pretty much settled in our new place.

The move went fairly smoothly. Luckily, I didn't miss out on any fun, and by the time I had gotten home from work, the action was just getting started. After loading up the car with as much as possible, I got to take one of the extra suitcases on the subway down to our new place. You never realize how many stairs there are somewhere until you try and take a heavy suitcase with you.

Finding a parking spot near our house involved some negotiating with the police, but we managed to stop somewhere for five minutes and unload the car as quickly as possible. Three trips up in the elevator, and we were done. Pretty painless, with the exception of our backs and legs (are we getting old?).

We even managed to find time to watch the second half of the France-Italy rugby game (France won) before heading back to our old place to collect the remaining suitcase and computer, and to clean the place up. It's good to know that we don't have to go back now until Tuesday to return the keys (and pick up some yummy bread from my favorite bakery, that Karina tells me was on the Bachelor!!).

Back to the new place (which smells strongly of fresh paint, even though it has been freshly wallpapered), and we managed to get everything unpacked and put away before finally calling it a night at 11:00. It was a pretty good feeling to wake up this morning and know that we didn't have to worry about unpacking. Although I'm pretty sure there is another trip to Ikea in our future.

As for the details, it turns out our worries about the water heater were unfounded. It just has a small drip that needs to be fixed. And we're hijacking someones unsecured wireless network while we wait for all the powers that be to get our connection organized. So, things aren't too bad around here. It's so nice to finally be somewhere that feels like home. I'll share pictures as soon as we get the camera back, but that's a whole other story.....