Moving Day

Wait a second, we can actually get our stuff?

It's funny that as we have missed some creature comforts from home, I had grown accustomed to living out of a suitcase. I guess you do anything for long enough, you get used to it.

As the movers hauled our stuff up 100 feet into the sky I kept seeing things I had forgotten we had, and many I was glad to have back.

You may remember from our earlier post that our new flat is on the top floor of a nice old building, but what we might not have mentioned is how high up. Though it is technically 3 floors, as the IKEA delivery-man said breathlessly, "...it is at least 7."

To back track now for a linear line of logic, here is the sequence of events:

June 23, Monday

The movers came and loaded all of our stuff up from our old condo.

From there it goes on a plane or train to the East Coast. Then, a steam ship takes our crate from the USA to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (The largest port in Europe)

August 15th, today!

They came at 8 am and I met them at the front door. There was a truck with our stuff and a vehicle that is like an electric ladder. (Some would say elevator, but it looked much more like a ladder to me.....)

So they load everything up from the truck to the platform and shoot it up.

The place looks like it could use a woman's touch... Where's Krista?

Way too much work to do here.

This is the view from our bedroom, there are windows like this on all sides of the house overlooking downtown Amsterdam rooftops.

The best thing about today was that I did not take the day off! I have a big presentation I had to send out, so I was working from home between deliveries. Got it all done though, so its back to the move!

I will post some more pictures soon of the place with everything out of boxes so you can see what it really looks like.

Take care.

- Brian