On Monday we got up, quickly got ready and all drove over to the house. I dropped off Cyp and a pile of stuff (it is amazing how our stuff expanded in three months at Kangaroo Point) and then drove Ellis to Graham and Leah's house. It is kinda funny - but when he says Graham and Leah, it sounds like Grandma Anita. I get confused as to who he is referring to sometimes.
Anyway - I don't think he quite understood that he was missing out on the arrival of the container.
I came back to the house and Cyp and I did a little inspecting and waiting and waiting...Cyp went to get Nandos for lunch - we decided the control freak should stay home to greet the movers - Cyp got to drive the car for the first time. He also found it not to be too much of a problem.
The container - or I should say crates (our stuff had been moved out of the container and now occupied 5 Ah So Easy type boxes) finally arrived at 11:45. They had given us a window of 10 am till noon. I was a little cheesed to say the least. Especially as we had to go back to get Ellis at around noon.
I got to stand there and tick off numbers on a sheet as they brought in our boxes (145 items - boxes and pieces of furniture). I really wanted to start ripping open boxes but the two guys were pretty speedy and I had hard time finding the numbers (boxes were all out of order) and deciding where the box should go before they had gone to get another one.
We decided that Cyp should go get Ellis as I am the control freak and have very set ideas about where things should go.
Surprisingly Ellis and Rowan did not seem to get in the way much and the movers were gone by about 4:30.
Phil and Maryann (boss and boss's wife) came over and Maryann helped me unpack kitchen things and get things set up there while Cyp, Phil and Ellis went for pizza and wine. We managed to have dinner in the dining room at the table on our own plates - how weird.
It did make me feel a tad homesick to see all our stuff here. Then again, this house is so different from Vancouver home, that it does not really seem like our stuff. I think Bob and Dot's picture of the Lion's Gate Bridge made me feel the most homesick.
Ellis seemed quite happy - he doesn't really remember his stuff - some recent things, but not a lot of the stuff he got when he was around 2. I think about half the boxes were full of toys.
After we got the kids to bed, we tried to unpack as much as we could. I got depressed by the amount of crap we toted to Australia - especially all the clothes that will be pretty much useless here. Why? Why did I not put them in a bin. I could put them in a bin here, but I don't think anyone here will want them. I did not sleep much on Monday night. Thoughts of where we could possibly put everything in the house without cupboards kept my brain very busy all night.
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