So, it’s finally happened—we’ve moved. There were times we weren’t sure we would when delays came up.
The actual day (delayed by 3 days) dawned beautiful…and wet. It had rained all night and was still raining when we got round to meet the truck at 7am. Roger went to the meeting point (a well known landmark not too far from our old house). He waited about half an hour and finally came home. The truck and “muscle” ended up coming at 8:30 and by 10am, we were on our way to the new house.
By 1pm, the truck was unloaded and we were looking for something to eat. We ended up going to a lady who cooks local food on the corner of the road. You have to understand that this is a different sort of “take-away”. One comes with their own bowl and asks for their “fufu” (a paste sort of stuff made of yams) and sauce. You pay according to the number of pieces of meat and hot peppers they put in. Since we hadn’t unpacked much of anything, we each ate out of a cooking pot. Roger, of course, had the biggest one.
We’re here, now and have enjoyed the air-conditioning, especially at night. The dogs bark and it echoes all over off the high walls, but I believe they don’t bark as much as they did at the other place—not yet anyhow. There are still problems with leaking pipes and we have a mountain to unpack but it’s good to be here—finally. Unpacking is almost as unenjoyable a task as packing and is made even less pleasant this time by the fact that there is NO storage in this house and we have very little of it ourselves. We have to have wardrobes made as well as shelves and cupboards. However, we have a/c so are happy. Now we just need to find everything!
Photos to follow.
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