The move wasn't without it's problems. Like my friend Janet said: "If we didn't have bad luck we wouldn't have any at all." Well I certainly had my share of bad luck during this move. It all started on Monday the day we were scheduled to move. As I was doing some last minute laundry I noticed that the elevators were no longer working. I happened to run into the superintendent and asked what was happening. It looked like both elevators were down and they were waiting for them to be fixed. I started to panick. Just before I went to pick up the moving truck I dropped by the office and they told me they didn't know when or if the elevators would be fixed. I told them I was moving and needed the elevators to move my stuff. They said if it wasn't done I could stay until Tuesday and move out then but that would interfere with the moving truck rental. After a bit of debate we decided to rent the truck anyways and use the stairs to move. Thankfully, I received a message a few minutes later from the office that the elevators were fixed.
The loading overall went well. We put an ad on kijiji to help with the loading and unloading and the guy we picked did a really good job. I barely did any heavy lifting not that it made a difference because I ended up with a few bruises from lifting up boxes. Crazy.
Once we arrived to move in the current tenant was still moving so we had to wait about half an hour. The unloading went surprisingly fast especially since this is a walk up and there are no elevators. We had to go back to the old apartment and get a few things then parked the truck nearby and decided to wait until Tuesday to finish the unloading. There was no parking after 8:00am so we had only 5 hours of sleep before we had to move the truck. We decided to get breakfast at Boom which is conveniently located across the street. We left the truck at a meter while we had our breakfast. On our way back to the truck we realized someone had open the back. Thankfully we didn't have anything of value and nothing was taken.
We went back to unload what was left and of course we got a parking ticket even though we weren't exactly parked just unloading. We tried to talk ourselves out of the ticket but it didn't work. Afterwards, we headed over to Ikea and got our new couch. Yay! It is spacious and comfy and turns into a sofa bed. Bonus! Taking the couch up to the apartment wasn't as hard as I thought it would be even though the boxes were heavy. Between the two of us we managed pretty well. Maybe that's were I got the giant bruises from.
Now all I need to do is finish unpacking and start decorating!
We went back to unload what was left and of course we got a parking ticket even though we weren't exactly parked just unloading. We tried to talk ourselves out of the ticket but it didn't work. Afterwards, we headed over to Ikea and got our new couch. Yay! It is spacious and comfy and turns into a sofa bed. Bonus! Taking the couch up to the apartment wasn't as hard as I thought it would be even though the boxes were heavy. Between the two of us we managed pretty well. Maybe that's were I got the giant bruises from.
Now all I need to do is finish unpacking and start decorating!
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