The joy of moving!

What an evening we had yesterday! We bought a three-piece sectional sofa (pictured) second-hand from someone who lives fairly close to us, and our new friends Volker and Johanna generously offered to help us transport it in their car. They have a somewhat small vehicle so we were a little worried about whether the larger piece would fit, but when we got there we found out that nothing except the ottoman and pillows were going to fit! We had already promised the girl selling it to us that we would have it out of her house that evening, and in fact it was already out on the street...so we were left with no choice but to carry it to our place by hand, Johanna and I taking the smaller piece and Volker and Carl the larger one. What a nightmare THAT was - it was quite heavy and we had to haul it a good kilometer through the city!! Let's just say that we owe Volker and Johanna BIG TIME!

I think we'll look back on this and laugh at ourselves (as others most certainly were when they saw us on the street), but after we finally got it up the three flights of stairs and into the living room, no one had any energy left to laugh! One thing is for sure though - when it comes time to move out of this apartment, we will GLADLY give this piece of furniture away FREE to anyone who is willing to haul it out of here, because we sure don't want to do it again! :-)