Move In Day

So we know we've been really bad about keeping up with the blog. I'm sure we have good excuses...really we do...the biggest one being that we Finally moved into our house!!!

So a description of our house for those of you who haven't heard. Basically, it's the biggest house we're EVER going to live in. We really lucked out! It's the end unit of a town house in Mainz, Germany. It has four finished floors. Kurt has turned the basement into an entertainment room with a projector that makes you feel like you're in a movie theater. The basement also has a washroom, storage room where the refrigerator will be as well as a sauna. The sauna hasn't been used in 6 years...so we'll see how that goes! The ground floor has a powder room, the kitchen with a breakfast bar and it opens to a dining room/sitting room area. I love this room because the majority of it is windows and it is always bright and cheery! The second floor has the main bathroom, the office, the guest bedroom (which currently has nothing in it!), and another smaller bedroom that we've turned into the Closet with our armoires and linens. The top floor is a loft and is the master bedroom and bathroom. It's very neat and airy but there is a lot of unusable space since the ceilings are sloped.

Move In 4 April 2007

It was very exciting that last Tuesday, April 3, was our last night in the Patriot Inn!!! We woke up early on Wednesday, packed up the room and headed to our house to wait for the deliveries. If you've never lived in a hotel for 6.5 weeks, you'd be surprised how much stuff you accumulate!

The move day went really well. The guys with the washer and dryer arrived around 830 and got those hooked up for us. Unfortunately, the refrigerator they brought wouldn't fit down the stairs, so we have to set up another delivery for a smaller one. Let me back up...we do have a refrigerator right now. It's in our kitchen but German refrigerators are pretty tiny so we're borrowing one for more storage space. Then around 930 or so, the guys came with our two armoires. Our house has no closets...this is pretty common for German houses...so we are borrowing two armoires for our stay here as well. After waiting anxiously, the delivery came about 1:00. It was so exciting! We were both giddy just seeing our stuff walk in the doors! We felt bad making the movers carry furniture up two flights of stairs...but it was better than us doing it ourselves! The movers were only able to bring half of our stuff at a time, and even taking a break to go back to the warehouse, they were done unpacking by 3:15!

We did a pretty good job of unpacking on Wednesday. The kitchen, office, and entertainment rooms were pretty much done that day. Kurt was able to test his projector and play Halo on a 142 inch screen so he was happy! When we got tired of unpacking, we walked to a nearby pizza place. Literally, it's a 3 minute walk...how fabulous is that?? Thursday and Friday, we finished more unpacking and started cleaning. There's still some cleaning to do...but only the rooms we're not using right away. It's wonderful to finally be settled into our own house again! It's true...you don't appreciate what you have until it's not there.

So now that we're all settled...who's going to come visit????