River: ...and what am I doing in this handbasket?

[mdlbear]

Starting our next adventure, that's what.

We left Seattle on Tuesday, 1 October (trying to get used to European-style dates, which is hard; I still prefer yyyy/mm/dd because it works better for filenames). We arrived around noon Wednesday, took an Uber to the hotel (because LUGGAGE), and fell over.

Thursday we started by registering with the municipality (which you have to do before you can do anything). On the way back, we grabbed some food at the (ubiquitous Dutch grocery store chain)Albert Heine (mostly shortened to AH in these pages) across the street from the hotel. About 14:00 we were met in the lobby by our wonderful real estate agent, Ceva, with keys and a huge bunch of flowers.

I kind of melted looking at the flowers -- Colleen would have loved them. But...

Then Ceva took us out to the house. Our house. The previous owners had taken several items that they had told us they were leaving, including some wall-mounted cabinets, which left a bit of a mess. Nothing we can't handle. They also left a couple of beds, which we don't want but can use until we can get better ones, and most of the storage we wanted (but see above).

We spent all of Friday in the hotel, with N coddling her injured foot and catching up on sleep, me enjoying cheese and fresh-baked bread from across the street, and both of us researching the stuff we'll have to buy to make the place habitable. For both humans (including G and m, arriving in about four weeks), and cats (arriving in about three weeks).

It's Saturday: to be continued.