My silicon valley experience

Yesterday in the early morning we drove up to Palo Alto in our jam packed car. We planned to meet our land lady at 12pm and wow what should I tell you? Although it’s a 5hr drive we got out of the car exactly at 12:00pm! I now know why my girlfriend is a successful manager!

But then it started. A few things in our otherwise great, bright and large apartment absolutely weren’t like we wanted them. So a window didn’t lock properly and the hardware in the guest bath room is kinda icky and some other details like dirt a lot of it. After we brought those complains to our very nice land lady we went o to IKEA and needed too much time too buy too many things too big for our car. Worst thing is the mattress was too big and we needed one for the next night. Delivery via IKEA on the same day wasn’t possible anymore and we couldn’t manage to rent a truck somewhere. Although AVIS told us on the phone they had something. But after a 30min drive to SJ international airport we found out that there vehicles were either too small or you couldn’t remove the seats. Thanks AVIS you stole one hour of our time! So we bought another, smaller mattress to fit in the car and we slept on this last night and it was good. The other stuff will be delivered on Monday. Another advantage of this is that the bed we bought looks way cooler with a spring box. But IKEA wants 250$ for that which isn’t an option. So now we can use the additional mattress instead. So that worked out well.

So today we have more shopping to do but decided to approach it less stressed and more relaxed than yesterday. So we are now sitting in a great cafe in downtown Palo Alto enjoying great coffee, pastry and wifi.

So more things will probably follow on Tuesday since then our ISP will send someone over to activate our Internet connection and the Router/Modem should arrive. By then I should also have some photos at hand.