This is a lot!

The last couple days have be a lot! Just now bringing myself to blog about it. Difficulties are part of the journey though, right?!? If we had wanted things laid out neatly before us, we’d have taken a cruise.

Saturday it stormed all morning but we finally headed over to the apartment in the afternoon. We arrived to significant flooding in the dining room that appears to have come through the French doors. We mopped it up of course; and have sent an email to our landlords about the water damage and also that it looks to have happened previously due to the warping we had noted in the walk through. But we’re running through scenarios in our heads about our options here and hoping that the landlords will resolve it satisfactorily. We do know there will be a number of conversations in French to navigate this issue.

Yesterday, we were supposed to receive our furniture delivery from Ikea; however, we missed their call so they didn’t deliver it. We’re thinking that our phone probably didn’t ring as things are funky when you don’t have your French phone number yet. We had expected them to ring the buzzer when they arrived at the building, but apparently they don’t come when you don’t respond to the phone call. We should have been more diligently looking at phone calls and emails though. John successfully rescheduled the delivery for later this week, using his French I might add. Hopefully we’ll have our new French phone numbers by then!

Yesterday evening we grabbed a drink at the port as the sun was setting. The port was beautiful at dusk!