6th Floor Walk-up

After our trip to London, we thought maybe we'd sleep in this AM. Wrong!! Promptly at 7 AM, I began to hear all kinds of construction noises, some from out on the street and some that seemed to be in our stairwell. The metal clanging made me think that they were replacing a railing or something.

When we finally rolled out of bed and ingested our coffee, I looked out the window to see that both ends of the block across the street had been dug up, and something was being done in the holes. No biggie.

Then Chris called to see if we were up as he needed to pick up his bike that he left here while they were moving. Again no problem. We have to go down to street level to unlock the door for visitors, so I stepped out on the landing and pushed the button for the elevator. Nothing. I walked down the stairs to find the elevator door open and workmen hovering around the opening. Again no problem, as the elevator has had quite a bit of tweaking in the past few months. Chris left via the stairs, and Tom and I vegged out for most of the day.

When I started getting hungry, I realized that we were pretty short on groceries, so I headed out to go to the store. Again no elevator, so I walked down the stairs to find...

NO Elevator!!!

I saw parts of the old one in the garbage area- remember the clanging? and no signs of a new one anywhere!! A sign on the door says something in Czech that I hope says "we're replacing the elevator ", but Lord only knows when!! Needless to say - I only bought the necessities as I had to cart everything back up those 6 flights of stairs. :-)