Sorry, no new pictures for this post! I (Sean) just thought that I would share with everyone our interesting experience yesterday when our sea shipment finally arrived. The day we have been waiting for since we arrived in Germany had finally come. When we arrived at our house at 7:45 in the morning Monday morning, the container with our things was already in front of our house (and our neighbors' houses on either side of us!). One thing we have definitely learned about the German culture is that everyone, even the cable guy, is punctual!
The movers just started pulling boxes and furniture all wrapped in brown paper off of the truck and piling it in our house. Before they had even arrived Stephanie and I had wondered how they were going to get our office desk in the house as the top of it is too long and wide for our doors. The answer would become a common theme that day - it was shoved through a window!
The movers continued to unload the truck and the look on their faces when they took our King and Queen size beds off the truck was priceless. Immediately I was thinking "uh oh!" Their eyes were the size of golf balls. Before I continue, let me backtrack about 2 months to our trip over here to look for a house. In all of the hotels that we stayed at, we couldn't understand why all of the mattresses were composed of two twin size mattresses. Well, yesterday we found out. Simply put, American beds are not made for European houses. Before they attempted to get the mattresses in the house, they first tried to get the sofas in the house. Since we had an extra sofa and loveseat, we asked the movers to take the sofa up to our bedroom (on the 3rd floor of our 3 story house). They knew right away that they were going to have to find another way to get it onto the 2nd floor as it would not fit through the stairwell from the main floor. Of course how did they get it to the 2nd floor? Hurl it through the window on the 2nd floor of course! I wish I had taken pictures - or Stephanie anyway, I was helping.
Once we had a system down, we thought we would use it to get the mattresses upstairs. Getting them onto the 2nd floor, was not too difficult. However, once on the 2nd floor, the movers began trying to get a square peg to fit into a round hole. The analogy is almost literal too. Our stairwell is a spiral stairwell. So after about 5 minutes of pushing and shoving the movers were starting to give up until I kept hollering at them to bend the bed and squish it any way they could to get it up the stairway. In the end, our bed made it and I must say that last night was the best night's sleep I have had in quite some time.
Tschüß from Germany!
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