I had to stare at these boxes for five days
waiting to open them.
The Reformer with Tower.
(The floor isn't finished yet)
The Cadillac (or Trapeze as it is called)
Nate sitting
on the Cadillac
Too bad, so sad for me. They didn't come until AFTER my four days of Pilates training.
DAMN!!!
I was really worried about getting the 800 pounds of equipment off the truck without Nate being here. Because I bought it in the month of April, I got free delivery which would have been nearly $500.00. This only included "curbside" delivery so they would take the equipment to the garage and not help get it into the house!
I couldn't believe the guy this big moving company sent to unload my equipment. His gut stuck out to Maine and he had a limp and moved really slow. He was TOTALLY out of shape to be lifting and moving the boxes we had. I was worried he was going to hurt himself and so I asked if he had had an injury. He told me he had numbness and tingling in his leg! GREAT! This guy was going to move my $9000.00 dollars worth of equipment off a truck four feet off the ground and into our garage. At that point I wondered why I ever asked him if he had any tips as to how to get it into the house. As it turned out...he wouldn't have been able to do it himself!
Heather, Whit and I helped him finagle it off the truck and a few times Heather and I both thought he was going to drop them on the ground from off the lift! He was trying to get the boxes, which were stacked on top of each other three high, from inside the truck to the lift so he kept rocking them back and forth getting them nearer and nearer to the edge of the lift. I kept trying to brace them to make sure they wouldn't fall off and I seriously thought he was going to drop them on my head a couple times. THAT could have killed me as they were just above my head!
I was so grateful to get them in the garage I quickly signed the papers to get the dude off our land and started oogling the boxes anxious to see what was inside!
Have you ever gotten a gift in a box that big? Can you blame me for being excited? Go back to the top and look at the size of those boxes! I had to look at them sitting in my garage for FIVE LONG DAYS....just waiting for the equipment in them to be put up in my gym. That was a very long wait!
After the moving guy left, I really looked the boxes over and there were a few dents in them. THEN I read the signs on the boxes that said to look at the boxes BEFORE the delivery guy left and if there was damage, make him open them on the spot to inspect the equipment!
RRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!
Each box was about 400 pounds and we were supposed to take the top one off so we could inspect the contents of the bottom box that had damage. That was never gonna happen!! Especially with the help of the dude with the limp and big gut!
I took pictures and sent them to the company I bought them from. Everything turned out o.k. No damage at all.
Putting up my equipment was better than Christmas! It was the best Mother's Day I've ever had!
The gym is getting pretty crowded now what with the new additions, but I'm not complaining. It's been super fun practicing and I'll be getting into shape before you know it! I'm thinking of cutting down by one day at work so I can have more time to play! Maybe after I visit Aub and Nate and the kids in July!
