This day was our last drive (170 miles), and we were
eager to get to our new house, so we started early, however the drive was slow,
as Max had had his fill of sitting in a car seat and uncomfortable,
insufficient nursing breaks. He cried, and I stopped to hold and nurse him, but
it barely helped, as he would start crying again as soon as he was back in his
seat. Not even Bob Dylan’s Jokerman, which had helped soothe him to sleep
throughout most of the trip, worked. It was a beautiful but stressful drive.
Thankfully, our GPS found its signal again, and guided us straight to our house, which we had rented online. What a feeling, coming up on our address and hearing,
“Your destination is on your right. You have arrived.”
Renting a house online is probably not a good idea, but what
choice did we have? We were a bit nervous about the whole thing (worst case
scenario: we had been completely ripped off), but when we arrived, the house
and everything was there, exactly as in the pictures, keys on the kitchen
counter. The only thing pictures or Google had not prepared us for was how
hilly it was. Our house is on a big slope. Perhaps the name of the area: “Druid
HILLS” should have turned on a light in our little heads – in any case, we were
quite relieved, happy and excited to finally be here. We had a house! Yay. But
no furniture. So after we had managed to bring all our stuff into the house, we
set the GPS to IKEA and spent the next 6 hours trying to figure out the best
way to get what we needed without going completely broke.
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