Moving Mysteries and More Pics

We're back to blogland now that we have internet again! It is temporary internet, but should last until we leave for the States for the holidays.

We are getting settled slowly but surely. My goal is to have everything in place before we leave. Today our plan is to hang pictures, and that should make a big difference. We discovered, upon trying to nail something into the wall, that the walls are concrete. Our nice Mr. Attila hung a few big things for me, and today Larry is off to Praktiker, the Hungarian version of Home Depot, to find some concrete anchors. Here a few pics - more to come.

Dining area

Living room

Cade's room

Chelsea's room

Chelsea's room - hard to tell, but her rug is purple. She was excited to pick it out.

Play room

Play room

It is pretty amazing that our stuff made it here with only minor damage to a few things. The journey it took is as follows - boxes loaded onto a shipping container in Houston, container loaded onto boat somewhere, sailed across the ocean, landed in Germany and placed on a truck, driven to Hungary, shipping container unloaded somewhere, stuff loaded onto smaller trucks and driven to our house. Whew! The movers were great and took away a few things to get fixed - a dining room chair, one rug needed cleaning, and the plasma TV stand broke. A few other small things broke as well. Our biggest mystery is this:



We have no idea what happened to the middle cushion. The whole couch was wrapped together in moving paper, pillows and all. Somewhere between Houston and Hungary, a pillow jumped off. Chelsea's theory is that it fell into the ocean. Maybe someone along the way needed a couch cushion. Who knows?? The company is placing a trace on it - not sure how that works, but they say in about 30 days they will know if it is located or not.

We also have some "naked" lamps, as Chelsea calls them. We assume the lamp shades ended up in storage. Hopefully, they will be able to find that box and get it to us. We will wait and see!