It was a nerve wracking day. We took the Subaru off the trailer, and the trailer off the truck. We parked them both in the back of the parking lot at our hotel, which we were now officially checked out of. So that was a little sketch, but we didn't really have a choice.
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| We took this photo just in case this was the last time we ever saw the Subaru |
We stopped on the way into town to rent a hand truck from U Haul. So that was a little funny, driving up to U Haul in the Penske truck.
We drove over to the apartment building. Only to realize the leasing office is five minutes away in another building. We drove over there and finally met TC, our leasing agent, who Tanner has been emailing with for about three weeks now. They let us know that you are supposed to get your keys at noon. It was then about 9:30. No one had told us that, and I was super annoyed, but trying not to let it show. It was probably a detail in the lease we missed. TC called the maintenance guy, who drove over our keys early. He also drove over to the building we are in and showed us around a little.
It was okay to just park against the building, kind of taking up a lot of the little parking lot. So we started moving stuff in. Tanner remembered to take a few photos of the empty apartment.
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| From the living room into the bedroom, those are folding door with glass. The bedroom is bigger than the living room. Those are the only windows, the two in the bedroom |
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| Weird view, from where the living room furniture will be. The kitchen is super depressing. |
We only took one small break for breakfast/lunch. I walked around the block and found a place that served pizza, subs, and gyros that was open.
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| Sitting in the truck eating. It was in shade most of the day, which was nice. I found out today that I got sunburned wearing a tank top. All I did was move our stuff and walk to get lunch. I am going to have to be more careful |
Moving went really well. Between Tanner taking up boxes on the hand truck, and me carrying up any odd shaped or sized things we got a good rhythm. We even used the hand truck for most of the furniture. Everything fit in the elevator, including the mattresses, shelves and couch.
The building seems fine. The hallways are wide and hardwood. The elevator is noisy but works well enough. It is a locked building and people seem to make sure the doors close. It is right downtown, but downtown is smaller and kind of coming back from some economic depression. So we can walk some places, a post office, library, lots of places to eat, and some corner markets. It is much quieter than my place in Boston, about the same as our place in Seattle.
The apartment smells like varnish, they just redid the floors. The layout is a little strange, but not bad. You can get into the one bathroom from either the bedroom or living room. The bathroom is big enough and has a tub. But no towel rack. There is no linen cupboard. There is just one closet in the whole place, a jumbo one in the bedroom.
The bedroom is bigger then our old place. It has the only two windows. We do get a lot of light in the bedroom. We are on the fifth floor and there are no tall buildings for a few blocks. The view is not really much. They are doing construction on a building we can watch. The windows do open, one has a screen. I think there is room to set up my quilting stuff better than the old place.
The living room is smaller. Even after unpacking half the day today, we are not sure how to lay out the furniture. The ceilings in the living room and bedroom are really high, like 12 feet tall. But the actual ceiling is a really ugly insulation looking stuff.
The kitchen is tiny. Tiny dishwasher and stove, really tiny. The ceiling in there is a drop ceiling. It gets no natural light, and the light in there is fluorescent. There is half as much storage as our old kitchen. It has one counter that I think you are supposed to be able to eat at, but it is table height, not bar height. So it won't be useful food preparation space. We are hoping the small appliances can go there.
The AC works well. The fans both work and are really nice too. We don't think they have recycling, but we need to ask.
We finished getting it all up to the apartment between three and four. This gave us time to get the hand truck returned. Go all the way back to the hotel to pick up the trailer. Then we had to fill up the truck, and find Burford's Auto Shop. Tanner got so angry. People kept blocking traffic, and the gas station was a really tight fit, we had to double back through traffic because we couldn't u-turn in the truck with the trailer still attached. I followed Tanner to the Auto Shop that was taking our Penske truck.
Done! Such a relief not to have the truck anymore.
We sort of just drove around then in the Subaru. Tanner got a well deserved Slurpee, which I forgot to take a photo of before it was empty. We needed groceries so we stopped at an Asian grocery store we passed. It was gross. They didn't have some Sichuan ingredients I need, but they did have a few things we wanted to have, we got miso and kimchi. I am so upset that years of built up condiments were left behind, oh well. We stopped at Kroger and got the rest of the things we needed.
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| Yummy sweet chewy rice cake thing |
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| This is not trash, I wanted to take a photo of our Asian groceries, I was tired and sucked at it |
We unpacked just enough to be able to make the bed and take showers.
Then we went across the street to dinner. There is a restaurant called Perly's. It is a contemporary Jewish deli. I had a Jewbano, a deli twist on a Cuban, and Tanner had a Reuben. We had homemade pickles, dill potato salad and homemade chips. It was really good. There were so many things on the menu we want to try. But the eating out budget is going to be too small to go back again soon. They have at least seven kinds of homemade pickles every day. They have fishboards, which is a platter of smoked, pickled or kippered fish, and pickles, bagels and other little snacks to eat together. They have fancy hot dogs with all kinds of sauces. The decor was comfy, kitschy, but not over the top. So that is fun, to have that nearby. We did not take photos though, so when we go back I will take pictures.
We can't find the wall charger for Tanner's phone, so have been conserving batteries, my phone was left in Colorado, and no internet yet. So last night we couldn't check in very well with our families.
Off to bed! Tanner missed being able to play Destiny.
I will post more photos of our place as we put it together.
2 comments:
Your place looks nice! I guess it might be different in reality than in pictures, but it looks nice. I was wondering why you had glass doors to the bedroom until I read that the bedroom windows are the only windows! But that makes it look interesting.
When I visit we are going to that deli!!
Yes! Deli! I was thinking of you, since you are the only Jewish-ish person we are friends with.
Yeah, the apartment is nice. It is odd in places, and the lay out is funny. I was feeling kind of frustrated the day I wrote that. I feel better about it now that our stuff is getting moved in. And I worked from home one day right by the window, and that was nice. So it will be okay.
It will be so much fun when people visit! We are having fun here.
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