The last few days we have been picking out furniture and appliances for the new apartment! We should be in by the first of next week. Buying furniture was fun, appliances not! The appliances here are extremely small. The washer and dryer are one machine, and the oven is about the size of a lunchbox. Oh well... We did most of our shopping at Ikea and Home Centre. Ikea is a massive place where you walk through looking at furniture and then you go pick it up in the warehouse next door. It is one-stop shopping, everything from live plants and pictures to kitchen cabinets and furniture. It has a supervised playroom for kids and a swedish restaurant. We are having it delivered and assembled today or friday.
The warehouse...Jacob is pushing a cart with our take now buys. The furniture is sorted by aisle and then section.
We had three flat trolleys and our cart...we looked like the bad news bears trying to get all of it to customer service for delivery.
We have just about survived the hottest month of the year. Yesterday it was a mere 115 degrees with 80% humidity...at 9pm!!! Now we start the Muslim holiday, Ramadan, on Sept 2. This will be interesting...no eating and drinking in public (kids dont do this) but when fasting is broken in the evening, there are celebrations. A lot of stores have sales and stay open later.
I will post progress of the move as soon as deliveries start!
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