Friday night after work we planned to go to happy hour with our friends Tom & Sarah (who live in the same apartment building but on the other side) and Megan. They all decided to stop by to check out our new digs...after a little critiquing of our place - we locked our double doors and the 5 of us boarded the elevator....
The elevator began to go down and then dropped about 5 feet and just stopped....NOW what do we do?!?! We began pressing all of the buttons - thinking it may trigger the door open or something - but nothing happened....and as I'm sure you can all imagine - panic began to set in. The elevator has dimensions about that of a porta-john - and we were five squeezed in shoulder to shoulder...and it began to get hot - VERY Hot and fast.
Luckily Sarah had the name of the building superintendent programmed into her cell phone and gave him a call. He was not in the building but he sent the old ladies who manage the building to check it out. Within a few minutes we had voice contact via the speaker in the elevator from the ladies downstairs...Unfortunately the communication was in Russian and the 5 of us can only understand our few key words and phrases in Russian - nothing this woman was saying was making any sense to any of us.....
After a few more calls to the superintendent and a very hot 45 minutes later a mechanic showed up and manually opened the doors for us and we were able to climb out of the elevator since we were stuck between the 8th and 7th floors! You should have seen us - virtually all covered in sweat as it was soooooo hot in the elevator. Needless to say - we took the 8 flights of stairs down that night. Apparently we exceeded the weight limit of the elevator....I guess now we know - the weight limit for our elevator is about 3 Americans.
Thank goodness that Sarah had the number of the superintendent in her phone - you better believe that his number is programmed into our phones as well!!!
We are off to Turkey for the week of the 10th of September - we will be going to Antalya Turkey - which is located on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey - we are staying at the Atlantis hotel in Belek, Turkey - check out the website http://www.atlantishotel.info/ - Jim will be going for a few work seminars and I will be going to check out Antalya and look for an authentic Turkish Rug for our apartment.....wish me luck.
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