Still in Cuernavaca

I think it’s time for a moving update!  Well, an update about moving … I’m not sure how moving the update will be. 😉

As the title says, we’re still in Cuernavaca.  We’re facing some delays at the moment.

First, we’re waiting on some of the work being done.  Obviously, it’s hard to move in furniture when the floor is being tiled (it’s not so spacious that we can just put the furniture somewhere else!).  There’s a door still missing, and no railing on the stairs, and of course no kitchen cupboards (or paint on the kitchen walls).  We’re not expecting all this to be done before we move, but were hoping at least the tiling would be done.

Second, there’s the owner.  He needs to give us the gate-opener, so we can actually drive up to the house and unload things.  Also, he still has stuff in the house, such as furniture.  Again, there’s not a lot of room for our furniture along with his!

We keep finding out that it will be another day before his things are moved out, the tiling will take longer than expected, the workers need more materials, etc.  Delays and complications are not unexpected, of course.  However, it does mean our plans are changing every day or every few hours, and we have to make new decisions as we go along.

Things also get more complicated the longer we wait to move.  Today we discussed everything from moving Friday (the day after tomorrow) to moving two and a half weeks from now!  I won’t go into all the factors involved, but suffice to say it’s keeping life interesting.

So the latest … which may change later tonight still … is that we’re thinking of moving on Monday (possibly still coming back to finish cleaning here, but hopefully we’ll be done!) and stalling with more of the work.  That means more work being done on the house while we’re living there, but – no option is perfect!

There.  Were you moved?  I sure wasn’t.