It's been just over 3 weeks since I last wrote anything. There are two reasons for this:
- Our camera isn't working
- We finally got our household goods shipment
We got rid of our loaner furniture the same morning our stuff was delivered. While waiting for the delivery, Kylie had nothing but a rug to sit on while watching TV.
Our household goods finally arrived. They picked them up in Tucson on February 22nd and delivered them in Turkey on April 24th. That's 62 days without our stuff. It doesn't sound too long, but when you have a whole family living without familiar belongings...it just seems like a lifetime. Oh, wait...could that truck be loaded with our stuff?
Why, it sure is. All 10 crates and a sofa box.
We don't have any more pictures because as soon as the boxes arrived, Kim and I were thrown into a crash course of basic Turkish language so the movers could understand where to put our stuff. Just in case we couldn't catch on, they labeled each upstairs bedroom with a yellow sticky with either a 1, 2, 3, or 4 on it. We spent the morning shouting out things like...
Bir = 1 (sounds like beer)
Iki = 2 (icky)
uc = 3 (ooch)
dert = 4 (dirt)
Yimic Odoso = Dining Room
Salon = Living Room
Mutfuk = Kitchen (mootfuck) We had a lot of fun yelling out that one!!!
Aside from that, the other interesting thing about our delivery was they didn't use any ramps or dollies to unload the boxes. They carried almost everything on their backs. I'm still not quite sure how they picked the boxes up or set them down.
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