We shipped our “express” shipment back on November 5th. It is understood that express shipments take about 30 days to arrive so we scheduled it for several weeks before we left so that we would have important things like diapers and wipes and favorite blankets soon after our arrival.
Well every time Josh has stopped in at the embassy to ask about our shipment it “hasn’t arrived yet.” And really it didn’t matter if it HAD arrived, since we had to wait to get our diplomatic IDs before we could claim our goods. Well the IDs are finally here and “coincidentally ” our express shipment is now in Egypt.
**** side note: my spell checker wanted to change my misspelled version of coincidentally into “coin incident.” What is a coin incident? When you run out of quarters at the vending machine and can’t buy those Cheetos that you really, really want? ****
So yea! We get our stuff now, right? Um, not exactly. Now I guess paperwork has to be sent to get our crates from Lufthansa and then they will enter the Egyptian customs process and then monkeys have to perform cartwheels and pigs will fly and then maybe we’ll get them by the end of the month. And who knows when the slow boat from America will arrive with the second part of our shipment.
And really, the most ironic part of the whole waiting process is I know I’m going to get my stuff and think, “Why did I ship this [insert name of crappy item here] to Egypt?” to about 90% of the things that come out of the boxes.
Thank God for Amazon. I’ve been ordering everything I want/need and it’s arriving in about a week. I got a shower curtain and rings, I’m waiting on three knives (Rada brand), and I’m eyeballing a toaster, but I can’t decide if I want to get one locally with a European plug. Online shopping is so much fun. Everything is right at your fingertips, low prices, reviews to read, many, many options, AND you don’t have to take your life into your hands by driving to the store.
