Arrival and building a home!

Well we left the safety of the hotel and arrived in Greensboro. We were all shipped into a small building, which thankfully had air conditioning (a must here I can tell you). As we opened the door we came across this sign:

Sorry I had to do it back to front to get the full effect - I think you get the idea!

As soon as the many talks were over, we rushed to find apartments. It was like Treasure Hunt! We raced off to find the best apartments as we were told that there was not many to choose from. Luckily our local advisor phoned ahead and off we went to our now home - the Madison Apartments at Adams Farm. Photos of the apartment will be posted soon. The address by the way is:

5322G Fox Cove Lane, Greensboro, NC 27407, USA.

Feel free to send the following: Tea Bags! Jelly Babies (a bribe for our landlady - she loves them), McVities Digestives, anything to do with England that would look good on a display!

Before we could move in to the apartment we had to get furniture. I thought this would be a good experience - I love shopping! However buying stuff that you know you are going to have to leave here is a nightmare. However, we did have some fun doing it:

This is Jodie doing the Tempura mattress test.

Yes there was a salesman in the next office!

This lovely sofa was purchased at Habitat (sounds promising however) for Humanity - a charity shop! This is Cate my housemate - dont worry it now has a tasty throw over it!

Thankfully Helen knows a man called "Red" that has a truck! Here he is with my bed and he is pondering as to how we are going to get the sofa above and a table and 6 chairs and my bed in one truck! We did it - but very slowly and with lots of rope!

Dont worry I didn't get a second hand bed!

We were very lucky in that our apartment has had new carpets fitted throughout. However, we were unlucky in that it was fitted by a Mexican (together with his entire young family) and it took him hours and hours to fit it. Here we are waiting to get in - having already waited 4 hours!

This is the name of our posh apartments:

This is reception and the swimming pool is just to the left of it and the gym is just on the right. No excuses now for not coming back like Cindy Crawford!

And this is the outside of our apartment - ours is the bottom floor! The inside shots will come later after Laurence Llewelyn Bowen has been in and done his stuff! (That link was for you Caroline!)