We had the management take away some of our furniture today. We had a beautiful coffee table that took up 75% of the available space in the living room. I'd much rather let Penny have a place to play, and now that's exactly what we have.
We also switched out the beds. Penny had been sleeping on a Queen-sized bed, which is just hilarious, considering how tiny she looks in her current twin-size. Now she has open space in her room where she can play. We bought a bright green rug at Ikea yesterday just perfect for that space. When we rolled it out this evening, she ran around in circles giggling and squealing. Penny's room is starting to look like a little girl's room instead of a guest room from a magazine.
We wanted to switch out the beds in both rooms, and we did-- but not without a little miscommunication. It seems that as the message passed from our imperfect Mandarin to the front desk to the people actually in charge of moving the furniture, our request for Queen beds switched to twins became a request for each Queen bed to be switched for TWO twins. But since we don't have four kids, we just needed one in each room. They were relieved, since the door wouldn't open with the two twins in the room.
Our building is fancy and new, and the only people I've seen have been adults-- with the exception of one teenage boy. I asked today if Penny was the only child in the building, and the lady told me that, no, there was a newborn just downstairs from us. So Penny and I went to visit, bringing cookies, and we were happy to meet one of our neighbors. Her name is Beate, and she's German with a 2-week-old son. There are quite a few German folks around here, because BMW has several production plants in the area. We chatted for a while, and we have plans to meet at breakfast tomorrow morning. I'm really excited to know someone else in our building!
4 comments:
Hurray for new friends! You are so awesome to go out and meet people. Good luck with all that unpacking. Hopefully there are more fun surprises than 'why on earth did we keep that'? surprises :)
Man, you are so wonderful. I never would have gone to visit someone I didn't know. Way to be. I wish there were more pictures of your apartment. It sounds so posh, like way better than what we have here in the states, funny, right? You in China have a nicer place than me. Love you!!
I'm glad to hear that your stuff is arriving soon and yay for breakfast plans, how fun!
You are very brave to go visiting. It sounds very Jane Austiny. Unpacking is so WAY more fun than packing... its kinda like Christmas all over again, even if u just packed it a few days ago. I can just imagine the fun ur going to have after months!
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