Saturday, September 17, 2011

3,5 weeks and counting

So, it has been 17 days seen we left Denmark. What had happened since then... Let me see: We can pack our life in 8 suitcases. We moved in to hotel, one stop away from World Trade Center with a beautiful view of Empire State Building and downtown. Morten, my Morten Høgholm, has been at NASDAQ ringing the closing bell with SimCorp. We managed to rent a 7 seated Chrysler for $9,99 a day. A size of a car we definitely don't need, unless we will be hunting a moose in the woods. David tried his first lobster and he loved it. After couple of days at the playground Masha began to say English words with Hindu accent. There are no hippos in whole New York area. I met a couple of my childhood friends, whom I have't seen for the last 11-15 years. We have discovered that some clothes can be more expensive then in Denmark, like Gant or Huge Boss. We have seen more commercials on TV then we have ever seen in the past year. And that is not because we see TV a lot. And news of the day, no news about Canada.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

New York and story before that

Many things have changed since the day I have written last time.
We have made it to New York. Yes, this is correct, New York. You will ask why, weren't we not suppose to go to Montreal.
Yes, but Morten had to do a project for his Danish office involving US office, so we have tagged alone, while we are waiting for Canadian visa.
What can I say. I don't think I have realized that we are in US. It feels like a long nightmare with all that moves (this is the second move in a weeks time), packing house, dealing with goodbye and tears, and all the rest of the stuff that came along.
However, looking from the bright sites, it is working out as we wished it will be.
Last Wednesday we have packed our house into a huge container. A bit stressful task as we were suppose to do it over 2 days, but with a little mistake from a moving company we ended up doing all in one day. However thanks to the mistake, we got 3 cleaning ladies making sure that our house is in a decent conditions for our coming tenders. Wow, that was so great of them to offer. If I have to choose I will go alone with such kind of mistakes next time.
Then a move to a top nice apartment at Islands Brygger. For 40.000 Dkk a month (no, it was not us who was paying for it) you get a top Danish design apartment with a sea view and no, absolutely no place to hang your clothes, as that didn't go with the design.
And so today was a second move. This time we will be staying for 2 weeks at the same place and then we hope that we will be heading North.
So welcome to us to New York. Time to explore, see and enjoy the best experience ever.
Updates are coming but so far enjoy the view from our hotel...