It’s done!!!

Our new home is in Amsterdam! :D

I am exhausted, tired, all my muscles hurt, I am having a cold and barely can speak, the house is a mess but I am happy.. incredibly happy that we got this appartement. :)

Friday evening:
Me, dizzy from the pills I got myself against my cough, just running around and not knowing what to do.
Anna, extremely tired, taking every single object in the hand, looking at it, thinking about it, determining if we need this at all, setting it back and getting the next object.
If we had not had Tanya and Timo with us, we certainly wouldn’t have made it.
They just opened one box after the other, loading stuff inside and getting all our stuff away.
At 3 a.m. in the morning we were too tired to continue and decided to have dinner (honestly!) and go to bed.

Saturday, 7:30 am, Maastricht:
The alarm clock rings, without mercy. I have to get to Europcar to fetch our transporter. Luckily, the car that I had booked (Mercedes VITO) was not there, so I got one class bigger (Iveco daily) without extra cost.
Thinking about it now, this saved our ass because we stuffed this 10 cubic meter thing till under the roof and we had to load the Mazda additionally, with the Mercedes we would NEVER have gotten it done.

08:30
Loading the stuff I will need in Aachen into the transport, barely awake and not exactly motivated. The drive to Aachen is unspectacular. We fetch my brother in Aachen at the station and unload the stuff at my new home in Aachen. (A student dormitory, basically)

10:30
Back in Maastricht, now having breakfast. Then beginning to sort the stuff into the transporter.
Thanks to Catzee we have these Linksys-Boxes which are perfectly fitting onto the Iveco. Other stuff is carefully arranged and every millimeter of the car is used.

11:30
still packing

12:30
getting nervous. car has to be returned in Amsterdam at 1800, the latest.
Mobilizing all our powers once more we get it all into the car, slam the doors shut and at 1400 we are off to Amsterdam. The women stay longer and clean what we left behind and will then come with the Mazda and the rest.

16:30
Arrival in Amsterdam, all is good, we unload the car in record time! Thanks, Chris and Timo, this was awesome.

19:00
As the girls are still >1h away we decide to look for beer ;)
A long walk through the cold wind gives us a sixpack of beer and gives my already sour throat the rest. My voice begins to fade and the pain gets stronger.

20:00
The ladies arrive, carrying more stuff. We once more get dressed and get the stuff upstairs. The motivation begins to fade, so does my voice.
Hours of discussion, arranging things, searching for stuff follow, at eleven we decide to light the barbecue and grill the sausages that we had to unfreeze due to the moving. Lighting a barbecue at 2300 on a balcony in February surely is a little uncommon.
My voice now is completely away, I am only able to whisper, causing quite some laughter.

Sunday, 3:00 a.m.
We go to sleep, exhausted and tired.. don’t remember much.