Call it Brisgary or Calbane, but we are now happily settling in with the arrival of our furniture. As you can see from the photos above (top from Calgary, lower from Brisbane) we are not quite in the state of neatness that we should be, but that will come.
We had more than 200 packages/items delivered on Thursday. We have opened about 90% of the boxes, but have not unpacked everything. We have a smaller place here than we had in Calgary, so we ended up with an extra couch and two extra chairs that we didn't have a home for. Luckily a Canadian has arrived with no furniture and had intended to just buy things as he settled in. He won't need too much by the time we are finished with him! We did a good job of thinning out our belongings in Calgary, but we still have plenty of extras.
It was quite funny to go through the boxes. It was almost inmpossible to tell what was going to be in each gigantic wad of paper packing material. We actually spent two minutes unwrapping what turned out to be two mechanical pencils and an eraser, wrapped together as though they had to survive in King Tut's tomb! It was also hard to guess the contents of each box, as almost everything, including our two cases of wine, were labeled "ornaments". Of all the things that were sent, there were only two things broken: an old Rubbermaid container full of camping stuff and a frameless picture holder from Ikea. Not too bad.
We know that there is still plenty to unpack and we need to get the owner's permission to hang pictures, but now it really is home sweet home!
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