WE MOVED!

I thought yesterday was busy, but, of course, today was even more so.  We got up early to finish the last bit of packing.  The movers arrived about an hour and half late, but within the "normal" range for here.  The six strong Salvadoreños loaded everything in the truck in just over an hour.  They followed us to the new apartment and we realized that the truck had to stay parked outside on the street because it was too tall to enter the parking lot.  This meant that in addition to carrying everything up six flights of stairs, they had to unload it from the truck and carry it across the parking lot to get to the stairs.  It seemed like an impossible task, but they finished it in about two hours.  

Gilma came to the house in the morning to help and Francisco spent all day helping us.  We have put the whole kitchen together--more or less.  I might decide to rearrange when I start using everything, but for now it's all in a cabinet, drawer or on a shelf in the "pantry."

The cable people arrived this afternoon and moved our service from the old to the new.  So, in addition to the kitchen, the living room and dining room are usable.  We also set up the beds, but all of our clothes are still in suitcases and the spare bedroom and office are still full of boxes.  I think the rest will have to wait until tomorrow as we're completely exhausted and we didn't even climb the steps!  

I want to get the our bedroom and our closet as organized as I can before we leave for Managua on Friday morning.  The rest will have to wait until January when we come back from the states.  Maybe in mid-January when we return from the first mission trip to Bogota, Colombia, I will be able to put things on the wall and, then, it will really start looking like home.