Tea time

The ardourous task of unpacking continues. Unpacking in Manhattan is a lot harder than unpacking anywhere else... we empty a box, but then there's nowhere to put the stuff, so we're at a standstill.

We were trying to decide what the next step should be, and our eyes landed on six boxes of fine china. That's a whole stack along the wall! So we decided to have an "easy" night and unwrap it all.

Unpacking the fine china was the most fun we've had unpacking. First, there was all the bubble wrap -- ooo, it was such a struggle between opening a box or spending 5 minutes popping bubbles. Some boxes had both types, the big bubbles and small bubbles, so we could go back and forth.

We haven't seen our china since months before the wedding, when we first picked it out. It's a great feeling when you see something you haven't seen in 2 years and you still really love it. We love it! And in some cases, it was the first time we'd seen the item! (Sure, we'd seen the plates and cups, the usual setting they display in the stores...) But when we unwrapped the butter dish and the casserole dish - they were sooo cute!



And then we unwraped the gravy boat -- Sean and I were both like "Oh my gosh! A gravy boat - we've never owned a gravy boat before!!!" With each thing we unwrapped, we had to spend at least a few minutes studying them (and playing with them!)

Now I'm totally ready to have a dinner party - only if we can unearth the dining table and chairs :)