Bagels and Furniture

Sunday April 8

I’ve decided to tackle all of the popular local bagel places to determine my favourite!  Today I chose Bagels on Greene for starters.  To get there – we hopped on the 103 bus right outside our apartment, down to the metro stop. Got on the metro for about 5 stops and then walked a few blocks.  It has an interesting assortment of Indian food, Mexican food, Mediterranean food and bagels and coffee, with some pastries and chips thrown in for good measure.  I was tempted to try the Indian food (it was after noon) but stuck with my mission for bagels.  Lox, cream cheese, tomato, onions and capers on a sesame bagel.  Toasted and quite yummy!  I love that it had sesame seeds on both sides of the bagel - so there is no “top” or “bottom”.

We stopped into the Little Bear store to look at cat toys.  Our kitties are missing our furniture just as much as we are – at least we get to go outside everyday.  So, we bought a new scratching pad – with catnip and Zooka is even using it!  Win-win for all of us! I also bought some organic “grass” that we can grow inside.  Purrcy will love that. 

Tuesday April 10 – MOVE IN DAY

Finally – today our furniture will be delivered.  So – the back story here is that my frugal gene took over when we planned the move.  Instead of just hiring a moving company (and paying a fortune) we opted for a company called U-Pack.  They dropped a trailer (I thought it was going to be pod sized) in our driveway and David, Danny and Todd managed to squeeze all of stuff into the back 17 feet of this big honking trailer.  Then the U-Pack people filled the rest of the trailer with commercial goods and they deliver our stuff after the other shipments have been made.  Sounds easy enough, eh?  NOT!  On the back end (here in Montreal) we hired some movers to help us with the unloading.  First we hired 2 guys for 2 hours.  Then we upped it to 4 guys.  Because of the construction work in the lobby of the building and 1 of the 2 elevators out of commission, it took more like 3.5 hours to get the trailer unloaded. But wait – there’s more.  We had to rent a storage locker because we were unable to part with so many of our treasured items.  David had to Uber over to a U-Haul place to rent (another) truck to move all the boxes that won’t fit in our apartment.  Fortunately, one of the movers was available to stay and help load the U-Haul.  I really had no idea David had packed so many HUGE boxes of tools.  The same guy even met us over at the storage locker and helped unload the boxes.   Needless to say – it was a long day… like any moving day is.  I just don’t move very often so I forget how much work is involved.  Oh – and when we got back to our building – we had to completely disassemble the big IKEA book case (in the lobby) because it wouldn’t fit in the elevator.  

This week will be dedicated to unpacking boxes and getting really settled in.  Here is the living room- work in progress!