Moving, Moving, Moving

We were waiting all week to hear when we would be able to get the keys to our new apartment. The landlord's son had been living in the apartment but he recently purchased a house that he was moving into. We had to wait until he had all of his things out of the apartment before we could move in. We got a call on Saturday afternoon that we could come that evening to pick up the keys! So that evening, we headed over to get the keys to the apartment.

The next morning, our friend Miles came over at 7am to help us move our things. It was a very rainy morning so we were very thankful for Miles' help. We packed his car full of as many of our bags as we could and Daniel and Miles brought it all over to the apartment. After Daniel and I got home, we worked on tidying up the apartment and making sure all of our things were packed up and ready to go. We still had some of our things at temporary apartment #2. We were going to need to move the rest of the stuff via bus and didn't really want to do it in the downpour outside. We were also planning on staying there for one more night since our new apartment didn't have a bed yet.

Daniel's company lets you take up to one day off every two years to move into an unfurnished apartment. This means that Daniel got to take Monday off from work. This week is Autumn Holiday at school, so I have the entire week off. The timing of this break was great! I have had time to get us all unpacked and settled without having to worry about school.

On Monday morning, we woke up and finished taking the last of our stuff over to the new apartment. Once all of our stuff was at the new apartment, we headed to IKEA for lunch and our shopping extravaganza. We had a list of things that we knew we wanted to get eventually. There were a few key items (a bed, a couch, dishes, pots and pans) that we knew we wanted to get that day. Our friend PK was planning on meeting us there after work so we could borrow an IKEA trailer and take our new household goods to the apartment. Since we knew we were going to have a trailer, we decided to get as much off of our list as possible in the time that we had. If you have ever been to IKEA you know that upstairs it pretty much a show room and downstairs is where you find all the individual goods. It can take all day to wander through an IKEA store. We didn't have all day so we were as efficient as possible. We had already picked out the couch we wanted to get on a previous IKEA trip. We looked around quickly and decided that it was in fact the couch we wanted. We moved on to beds. They actually have quite a few options. We decided that we didn't want/need a bed frame so we concentrated on mattresses. We found something in our price range that we both liked. Once we decided on what size we wanted, we got that ordered and headed downstairs. We were able to check almost everything off of our list before it was time to meet our friend. We had a lot of stuff, so it took quite a while to get checked out. Once it was all said and done, it actually didn't cost nearly as much as I had expected. We only paid about $2000 to outfit our entire apartment!

IKEA lets you borrow a trailer for up to three hours for free! Sometimes it can take a while for a trailer to come back in so we were told it would be about 90 minutes before we could get a trailer. It actually  only took about 15 minutes for a trailer to be returned so by the time our couch and mattress had been delivered we were ready to pack up and head out. PK was super helpful both loading and unloading the trailer. With three of us, it really didn't take too long to get everything into the apartment.

After taking PK out to dinner to say thank you, we headed home assembled our bed and crashed! We were tired!