Pick up of shipped goods in Rotterdam!

Sunday we did more shopping at IKEA. We finished up with furnishing the house by buying a coffee table and an end table for the living room.  We bought a cast iron pot (which I have to "cure"), more hangers, a couple of lamps, etc.  We are pretty much done with furnishing the house. Now it feels like "home"!!! We have found that the furnishings we've chosen here are nothing like what we had in CA.....It's been fun choosing our furniture!

When we got back from IKEA we went for a walk in the woods with Sammy!

Rather than using rock, these shells are what cover the paths in the woods.

Today I finished hanging up the clothes we had brought with the new hangers we bought. Andrew came home from work at around 1030hrs, and we left right away for Rotterdam.  We had shipped a few things from Pleasanton, most importantly our Sleep Number bed!

First, we had to go to the shipping company's office to pay the fees:

Then, we had to drive a few miles over to where they were storing our belongings:

They came out with our belongings in a huge cardboard box on a forklift:

We had complained a few times about the car we were "forced" to drive when we first got here. But, oh my, has it been a blessing!  We've been able to buy furniture and bring it home ourselves (not having to pay for delivery), bring the pets home ourselves, and now pick up our shipped goods!

On our way home we stopped at McDonald's for lunch: