Apartment

This weekend marks the beginning of our Swiss Living Experience (tm). On Friday evening I received the keys to the apartment. It was an interesting experience but it was kind of a non-event because I couldn't actually STAY in it until later. You see, no furniture. We have nothing. Enter, IKEA.

Waking up early Saturday morning Asish and I took the number 10 bus to work much as we do 5 days of the week. But this time, we didn't actually go IN to work, we just went NEAR work. Where there is a car rental company. And by car I actually mean huge ass diesel moving van. Yes, my first Swiss driving experience was renting a van for our trip to IKEA. Armed with two iPhones (aka GPS + Google Maps) we headed off to IKEA.

I had made a list of everything I was going to get, and once we found a lady to help us out she just went to the computer, entered everything in and handed us the list with aisle and bin numbers of all the things we needed. Armed with the list all we had to do really was load it onto carts. Yes, carts. Four carts of IKEA beds and bedding. We loaded it all into the van, drove back and brought it all up into the apartment. Two days of assembly later we now have 2 beds and a futon-like couch sofa thinger. Below are 2 shots of things in various states of assembly.

Living room

Our room

And the view from the balcony. Nice, eh? I shall post
more pictures tomorrow.