Okay, after two weeks with our old TV from storage we broke down and got our UK plasma TV out so we could actually enjoy the HD programming that we are paying for with Direct TV. Plus our Wii, blu ray player and multi region DVD play will only play on our UK TV so we just wanted to get back to normal with all our entertainment gadgets. Well to get a few things to work we had to set up our big converter, but it had a European plug on it. So my husband who is just wicked smart and handy, went and got some US plugs to switch out the UK/European ends on the converter and iPod player we had. I had insisted on just getting some UK to US plugs at Tesco before we left the UK but I think he just likes tinkering with this kind of stuff so I let him "play."
Well, after we got everything ready to go, we couldn't find the stand for the flat screen. We looked EVERYWHERE!!!! The inventory sheets said they were here at our house, but we couldn't find them anywhere. Yes, we got to the point that we did a full inventory of our still packed and unpacked boxes, checking off numbers and everything. We were about to give up, but then about 9:30 PM I remembered seeing the packers put some extra things in the crates we had our auction furniture in. Sure enough...we found a crow bar and started breaking into the crates. Sure enough we found the TV stand and the missing box with our master bathroom stuff in it. Crazy thing is that it looks like US Customs ripped through these items...they sliced right through the bubble wrap holding my toilet cleaning brush...I'm sure they are glad they did that. But it also showed they had no regards for anyone's personal property as they sliced right through the middle of our TV stand box...then just put a little of their green tape over the top. We also have to thank them for busting up a few of our other things with they jostling around of things...
But by 11PM we finally had our HD TV up and enjoyed an hour of Deadiest Catch on Discovery HD channel...ahhhhh, felt like "home."
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