Moving into the house

I now own a piece of the U.S. We received the keys to our new house on 38th Street NW on Saturday evening. Then we had spent most of Saturday packing the first load in our U-HAUL with stuff from the apartment. Fortunately we are only moving 4 blocks, so we did not wrap things very carefully, just shoved it in boxes.

Sunday we did a few more trips and then it was only the big furniture left. We had booked a removal service for the sofa, bed, chest of drawers etc. Booking it was a nightmare. We prepaid 2 hours through a special offer, but when we wanted to book it they said minimum 3 hours and wanted to charge much more than the stipulated "extra hour cost" was. I complained to Amazon Local, who supplied the deal and after that they agreed to come, but warned us the time was too short to move anything.

Well, after 6 minutes the living room was empty and 10 minutes later it was all in the van. I rode with them up to the house, they unloaded each item in the correct room and carried up the mattress as well. All done and gone in 45 minutes. 

Now we have a few days to sort everything out until the load from Sweden arrives. The ship has arrived in Baltimore so just need customs clearance and delivery. We hope they will get it done this week, as Alastair is in Lima next week, but it may take too long.