Moving Day!

We are finally saying good-bye to the Marriott for the last time and our life as official residents of Hampstead begins today!

Yesterday seemed endless. Kyle & I arrived at the flat at 8:30 am, expecting our long-awaited John Lewis delivery between 9am and 1 pm. When I called at 1:15 to inquire, I was told that the delivery window was actually until 3 pm. OK, then, what's another hour and 1/2? When I phoned again at 3:25, it wasn't quite as easy to get through (it was as if they knew it was that pesky American woman again) and I was on hold for 20 minutes before being told that our delivery wasn't seen "on the book". Huh?? All this time, keep in mind that I am using Kyle's temp. mobile (did I mention I lost mine over the weekend?) standing as close as I could to the open window as our signal is terrible, trying to make sense of why my delivery was not "on the book" but possibly "on the list as an 'add-on', I'm going to have to ring you back." Aaaaaaagggggghhhhhh. (Chris could hear my scream in Victoria.) The very nice delivery guys finally arrived just before 4 pm. At 6:45 pm I had to go into the bedroom where they were only just trying to assemble the first bed to tell them we needed to leave and they were going to have to send someone back today to finish the beds. (We had an 8pm reservation at Gordon Ramsey's Maze Restaurant at our hotel for our celebratory last meal and I wasn't going to miss it.)

Apparently, no one from JL explained to the drivers that they were going to be assembling things, which was on of JL's concessions for not being able to deliver last week. So... they didn't have the proper tools and were gallantly trying to put the beds together using our limited tools and not making much progress.

Just got a call that my ride is here! It's off to Mount Vernon for us! More later.