Not a good day to move

April 2 – Today was very gloomy and oppressive. Looks like rain, but then it often does and we never get any. I went to the corporate apartment to get the bulk of the items that need to be moved out. There was lots of kitchen items (pots, pans, glasses, dishes) along with linens, pillows, quilts, and assorted other items. I had about 10 boxes & bags to move. I loaded it all onto the elevator & down to the front of the building and wouldn’t you know it, that is when the skies opened up. I still hailed a taxi and got soaked loading the stuff into it. I used my new language skills in telling the driver our address. Karen at the office taught me how to say 80 Robinson Road (you say the road name first, law-bean-sun dough; then the number, bath sap ho). I was pretty pleased as the driver understood perfectly.

It was just down the road, so still raining hard. I emptied everything out & made it up to our apartment in only 4 trips. Then came the unpleasant task of finding room for all this stuff in our apartment. I have a very well stocked kitchen now, can have a dinner party for 14, have 6 wine glasses, and enough linens to open a small hotel. Fortunately some of the stuff is not opened, so I might try returning it to Ikea, if I think I can stand the pain of entering Ikea again. Maybe it will make for a good blog entry.

Later in the afternoon I was treated to an amazing show from my front window. We had a terrific lightning storm and I had a front row seat. I love lightning storms and it reminded me of being at the lake (Champlain that is), although this looks nothing like looking over the lake at Vermont. We do have water and mountains on the other side, so I guess a loose similarity.