It's Been A Year!

It's been a year since this was our only seat in the house.

To celebrate we bought a couch.  It will go on the opposite wall in the same room as this picture. . . when we figure out how to get it from it's point of purchase to our house.

Here's how we did it a year ago.

We spent hours with those little wrenches from Ikea.  

With the house put together we'll spend this July swimming and barbecuing instead.

One of my first memories when we arrived was how hot it was.  I was surprised Geneva got so hot.  The heat of the sun wasn't helped by the modern aid of air conditioners.  It made us very irritable.  (well that and jet lag).  I didn't know how we would make it through the entire summer.  

We soon learned that Geneva summers aren't hot forever.  70 degrees is perfect when there isn't air conditioning.

Now here we are same week a year later and Geneva is again going through a little hot spell.  I'm surprised how well we've adapted to not having the luxury of cool air-except what is produced from a little fan.