Moving

Today was the day to do our shopping at IKEA. We ended up changing our mind last minute about some of the furniture as we got a few new ideas about furnishing our apartment. We still need to get a sofa and a TV stand, but the bed, computer desk and chest of drawers are on the way. Some deliveries are due tomorrow and some on Monday.

We found a really nice kitchen table, but the delivery will take seven weeks! Yes, that is a long time to go without a kitchen table. I saw a nice patio set at Bunnings (Home Depot equivalent) so that will serve as our kitchen table for the foreseeable future.

While shopping at IKEA, we picked out all these kitchen items but then realized that IKEA does not deliver small/breakable items. So we ended up leaving a cart full of things that we like, because we could not take it home. We will rent a car in a week or so and go to IKEA for our second trip to get everything else we need.

We are moving to the new apartment tomorrow morning, 7 am! I will take two suitcases and take the bus/train to the new apartment while Carla takes the rest of our things with our host in their SUV. We are VERY excited to be moving. The only important thing lacking at the new place will be a working Internet connection. They told me that it will take several weeks to get the connection going (as I am getting a specific type of a connection), but I hope that that is the worst case scenario. I'm sure I will figure something out in the mean time. :-)