After a week of
sleeping on mattresses all in one room to keep warm, possibly the greatest
moment of our lives (bar our wedding day and having children) was about to
happen. At about 10am, we stood on our balcony and watched as a huge truck with
our shipment from London trundled up the road. We greeted five burly men who
started to unload the container and bring stuff up to the flat. The big boss
man of the workers (who didn’t lift a single box) walks into the flat and asks
us straight up “how much did you pay for this place?” Shocked (as we are
English and not used to such outright questions) we told him and then he
proceeded to tell us that we had paid too much and that he had a seven bedroom
house by the sea in Ashkelon for half the rental price. Ignoring him, we started to direct the movers
to the different rooms to put the boxes into the correct rooms.
When checking to
see if everything was there, we couldn’t help feeling that something big was
missing. The couches were here, the table and chairs were here, our bed was
here, Eitan’s cot was here and then it hit us…Ella’s bed was missing. We had
ordered a new bed for her from London which was to be delivered straight to the
shippers warehouse. One phone call to the shippers and all was answered…the bed
was delivered but our surname (Mendelsohn) was spelt Mandelson on the delivery
and weirdly enough, there was a family Mandelson moving to Israel at exactly
the same time as us, using the same shippers but rather than moving to Modiin,
they were moving to Shoham (not far from Modiin). So our bed was put on their
shipment instead and would be delivered to us the following week. Ella would
have to sleep on mattresses for another week which she thought was so much fun
(thank goodness).
It was just the
most amazing feeling to see all of our stuff, all of our home comforts sitting
in our flat in Israel. Our couches, our table and chairs, our beds (minus
Ella’s), our TV, the kids toys. Nothing beat that feeling that we could now
unpack all our things and create our home. Great day.
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