We're in!

In three hours we unloaded the container with all of our worldly possessions and brought them up one flight of stairs and into our new apartment. While living in Monterey Maggie purchased a beautiful brown couch that folds out into a queen size bed. I have slept on it many times and can vouch for its comfort as a couch, and bed. It is the reason we have been able to encourage so many friends and family to come visit (this includes you, reader of this blog). It is, however, the heaviest thing I have ever lifted. When putting it into the container in Monterey, we wisely put it in first when our strength was at its fullest. This time however, we left the couch for last and when we went to lift it, we didn't. Our energy was zapped so if it weren't for the offer of help from a neighbor and her friend, that couch would still be sitting in the grass downstairs. And future visitors would be on the cold, hard, wooden floor.

It is a one bedroom. Maggie and I have each taken a room and then she has the living room furniture in hers and I have the dining room furniture in mine. There is also a den which is attached to my room which I am using as closet/storage/study.

We are a half hour walk from the school and a block and a half from a Whole Foods, Ace, Walgreens, Target (tiny), Starbucks, Chipotle, the breakfast place President Obama frequented, etc. So no regrets about not bringing my car!