Wednesday, June 23, 2004
further updates from P
Well, another day of shopping and organising has nearly ended. Spent most of this morning talking to P's mum and dad and J's mum and dad on various webcams. I might be completely biased but having our Apple Mac talk to P's mum and dad's apple mac (with iSight) was a whole lot easier than getting our Apple Mac talking to J's mum and dad's PC. I suppose it just takes a little perservance to get different systems to talk to each other (there's a metaphor for the world's problems if ever I saw one!!). Anyway, we spent this morning trying to figure out if our two trunks had cleared Canadian customs or not. Customs said they had, but the shipping agents said they hadn't, so after a mad dash across town, we made it to customs (10 minutes before they closed), got the right documentation, got to the Phoenix warehouse, cleared the trunks and managed to get them into the hire car. To be honest, the car is somewhat bigger than we had intended, but it has proved very worthwhile. We had intended to hire a compact sized car, but they didn't have any compacts, so after a bit of negotiation, we ended up with a full size car. Although this was approx $200 more than we anticipated paying, it turns out that moving the trunks from the shipping warehouse to our house in Tuscany would have cost $250, and given that we have brought several boot (or should I say trunk) loads of stuff from Ikea and other shops, we think that it was probably worth the extra money.
I am delighted to report that I now have a hairdryer, an iron and more than one bath towel. We also have now procured 8 knives, 8 forks, 8 spoons, a kettle, a coffee maker (hallejuha), a full set of saucepans and various kitchen implements. J has also set up the speakers and amplifiers so that the iPod can play its full selection of all the CDs that we had at home. Ikea is a wonderful shop - we have purchased a couple of chairs and footstools, a couple of sofas, many bookshelves (shocking - I know!!), bedside cabinets, bedroom drawers, towels, a dressing gown for Mr J, slippers, bathroom and kitchen bins, candles and various odds and ends for the kitchen.
By the way, it looks like the trunks and contents have arrived in tact. We haven't actually gone through them yet, but on first glance, they look fine. We'll see tomorrow, and I'll repot on the intactness of the pottery that we thought we would send.
Right now we're sittin listening to music played on the iPod through our newly purchased exdemo amplifiers and speakers, while Mr J checks through his PS2 games (on his second hand PS2 through our ex demo TV) - everything seems to be working perfectly so far, and we're delighted.
I'll be back tomorrow with further updates...
I am delighted to report that I now have a hairdryer, an iron and more than one bath towel. We also have now procured 8 knives, 8 forks, 8 spoons, a kettle, a coffee maker (hallejuha), a full set of saucepans and various kitchen implements. J has also set up the speakers and amplifiers so that the iPod can play its full selection of all the CDs that we had at home. Ikea is a wonderful shop - we have purchased a couple of chairs and footstools, a couple of sofas, many bookshelves (shocking - I know!!), bedside cabinets, bedroom drawers, towels, a dressing gown for Mr J, slippers, bathroom and kitchen bins, candles and various odds and ends for the kitchen.
By the way, it looks like the trunks and contents have arrived in tact. We haven't actually gone through them yet, but on first glance, they look fine. We'll see tomorrow, and I'll repot on the intactness of the pottery that we thought we would send.
Right now we're sittin listening to music played on the iPod through our newly purchased exdemo amplifiers and speakers, while Mr J checks through his PS2 games (on his second hand PS2 through our ex demo TV) - everything seems to be working perfectly so far, and we're delighted.
I'll be back tomorrow with further updates...
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