Container 2

Here are the pictures as promised. First, the arrival of the container itself, which had not been opened at all since leaving NZ:

The unpacking of some of the larger furniture items was a comfort as then we knew it was really our furniture:

The hallway filled up quickly:

As did the bedrooms - the only obvious casualites are the box of Xmas decorations (still to be checked) and a leg of one of the chairs which can be repaired with some paint:

Wouter supervising proceedings as all the boxes and cartons were checked off against their list:

Wouter was pleased when the boat was unloaded - there was a flat tyre as someone had secured a nail which punctured through, otherwise all appears to be ok:

And we thought the shed (hangar) was big enough, but that also filled up quickly:

Most of the cartons had "books" written on the top, but I'm sure we don't have that many. We are missing a lot of kitchen things, so I think they are probably in cartons marked books - this picture I've called "Books 'R' Us":

And finally, some luxury seating after all those weeks on wooden fold up chairs (that is, before we bought our two nice IKEA seats) and a real dining table from which to eat in our still camp kitchen:

It was an overwhelming couple of days. Cassy was unsettled - I guess by now he's figured out that lots of boxes mean we are moving house. At the end of the day we were still here and he was delighted to find his pink rubber ball, which has taken pride of place beside the green one... the only thing left for him to make it paradise is his duvet.

We are not unpacked by any means - as you know we are in the middle of tiling, grouting and doing the kitchen. So there are no cupboards ready to take the kitchenware and we're still camping in the lounge for now. Apart from finding some useful tools to help our installation of kitchen and associated work, we will unpack a few things we need (like warmer clothes, dressing gown, etc) otherwise it will stay in boxes until required and the rooms are ready.