Adventures in (newly)Wedville: Switcheroo

Yep, the rumors are true. We got a new couch.

And a new chair.

And a new coffee table.

The brown couch, which was originally my aunt and uncles, was replaced by a sea grass couch which was my aunt and uncles.

(While we were picking up we checked out their new sofa-I told Adam-look honey our new couch in 10 years Smile )

Getting the furniture was an ordeal to say the least. First we don’t own a large vehicle. So we had to find a truck with a hitch to borrow. Luckily we have good friends and someone let us borrow theirs.

Originally Adam was going to go down on Friday (his day off) and get the furniture alone. But my uncle hurt his shoulder so he couldn’t help lift-so we moved the trip to Sunday so that I could tag along. I made a reservation for a U-Haul and we woke up early and hit the road. We arrived at the Naples U-Haul around 10:30 am.

Then we went inside. There were two people working the counter and two groups in front of us….but we quickly realized that the place was utter chaos. We sat and waited for an hour before we got up to the counter. Finally she found our reservation and we met her outside to hook up the trailer.

Lights…??….breaks….??? lights…..????

uh oh.

Adam quickly realized that the towing lights had been cut in TWO places! The U-Haul girl said they could work on it…but we’d have to wait until the line (which was now doubled!) was gone. So Adam scrounged around in their tool box and got to work. He tried for an hour to slice and connect the lights….finally no luck.

We took a measurement of the truck bed and figured we could at least fit the chair and table in…or maybe the couch. So we turned in the trailer and headed to Home Depot to pick up some straps. (just to note, we first went to Wal-Mart next door but they didn’t have straps so we had to go in the opposite direction to Home Depot.)

We arrived hot, tired and hungry at my aunt and uncles house around 2pm. 5.5 hours after we left Tampa. My aunt had made a lovely Chicken dinner with mashed potatoes Brussel sprouts and apple crisp. It was all so good, but as much as we wanted to stay and relax we knew we had a long trip ahead.

Adam and I went out and started scoping things out…And somehow my husband fit everything into the truck bed and all the cushions in the cab! I couldn’t believe it. It was all in the back of the truck. We didn’t need the trailer after all! We could have saved 2.5 hours!!!

We hopped in and headed north, making it home by 6. We quickly unloaded and then loaded up our couch to take to Tara’s. Then after we dropped it off at her house we drove further south to drop off the truck at Mary’s. By 9:30 we were finally back home enjoying a pizza on our new white couch.