Moving in Disasters & Celebrations

I mean this is us we're talking about so you knew there was going to be some disaster along the way.

We arrived up after a 3-hour drive and about six runs up the six flights of stairs with the last of our stuff to be moved in, to find no electricity in the apartment (even though it was meant to be on three weeks ago). It didn't help that we arrived quite late in the evening so the light was fading quickly. Luckily our amazing landlord got it arranged quite quickly that an electrician would be out, but not until 9 pm. Again luckily the landlord also had a heap of candles around the place so we weren't in total darkness.
So we sat amongst the candles and boxes of our stuff until 9 pm hit and Mr. Bond the electrician arrives and saves the day finally getting us power. We did our little victory dance around the kitchen proud that we sorted out our first disaster ourselves.

Before we even thought about unpacking, we wanted food first and so we went to cook... and ran into disaster number 2. The cooker wasn't connected. No matter what we did the cooker would not let us eat and so we decided to find a take away down the road. Off we went and in the door of the takeaway, standing drooling over the menu... until the waitress comes out and tells us there closed... disaster number 3. We were hoping to have a little celebration drink for our first night in the new place, and so we went to an off-licence... which was also closed, disaster number 4. So we went back home with our stomachs rumbling louder than King Kongs roars.
 I had more grease in my hair than John Travolta and badly wanted to relax in a hot shower, but you know where this is going... there was no hot water, disaster number 5. So mister went investigating and found a switch which he turned on and... nearly killed himself as there were loose live wires and it sent off big green sparks... Fatal disaster number 6.
That was the last straw as we gave up before we did any more damage and went to bed with our snack dinner (leftovers from the road trip) and a movie.

Although the first day was a disaster I woke up on the right side of the bed after a super sleep and decided I would surprise himself and hope down to Lidl for some fresh pastries and apple juice for breakfast before a big day of shopping and unpacking.












Surprisingly this all went okay (although we've still no hot water or a working cooker) and we finally got our celebration drinks and a treat yo self-takeaway while playing Monopoly and feeling at home.


I guess this was one of those moments where you have to take it on the chin and count it as one of 'life's experiences'. You do actually hear many stories of young couples who move into dingy little flats with electricity problems and hey this could be a story to tell the grandkids.