02.02.22: February 2nd was a big day for all of us (again, after 21.12.21 ;)). It was Johannes’ first day at school and the day our furniture and stuff should arrive in our new home. The day we would start sleeping in our beds again. So after working three days in her company, Kathi took three days off again.
We left our hotel early in the morning, too early to say good-bye to the receptionist Alejandra. It was snowing heavily and we drove slowly through the darkness to our house, arriving at about 6:15am. No news from the lorry so far, and when nobody showed up at 7:00am, I called the boss of the moving company. 15 minutes later, the two men arrived in an empty van, but the lorry wasn’t there yet. It arrived another 15 minutes later and they started unpacking stuff. Of course, they were able to fit everything into the 7,5t lorry with no problems, and so the van really was completely empty.
They rolled out the red carpet and started unpacking.
Meanwhile, Kathi and Johannes left to walk to his new school.
I took the freedom to help them carry the boxes to the various places and soon, the boxes were all inside the house. One guy was very busy reassembling the big bedroom cupboard and the other two guys just sat outside and were smoking. The lorry driver did not do anything except for handing out the stuff from the lorry, and as learned later, he was from another company and thus would do no unloading etc.
Anyway, he left as soon as the truck was empty, so only two people were left for getting the sofa up to the second floor. There were many attempts, reminding me of the sofa situation in Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently books. They also attempted to remove the railing, ruined a screw without telling me and put the railing back on again, whistling La Paloma 🙁 I only found out about it later that evening.
But by tearing the sofa into smaller pieces, they at last succeeded. This thing needs to stay there until forever, we’re not going to move it ever again. At about one o’clock, the van left with the guys. Beds and cupboards were reassembled so we could sleep in our beds the first time after such a long time.
I fetched Johannes from school and he was very happy about his first day at school. He said that his classmates liked him and he likes them, and he might even have a crush on one of the girls. He was a bit sad though, that the moving action was already over. Still, he was keen on unpacking his toys while we tried to get at least some of the stuff from the kitchen into the cupboards. As usually, there is never enough space.
I’m writing this two months later and so much of my memory is already fading. But I do remember one thing: Oh my, so many boxes that needed to be unboxed. And so little furniture to put it in.
These boxes would go a long way.
