Descent into the Land of Laundry...

As I'm sure you've realized by now, our washer blows.

It suddenly decided to stop working maybe two weeks ago. I had a load in and the washer proceeded to soak the clothes and deposit the soap. Then nothing. No spinning. Nothing. I tried three times in a row. Nothing. I was forced to wash out the clothes in the sink.

Our flat decided, for some odd reason, to put off telling CET about our problem and to just not do laundry. Bad idea.

Finally, forced to seek alternative methods, I looked up laundromats on expats.cz. I found one pretty close to our flat. It had several self-service machines, so it seemed like a good place to go.

Kendra and I packed out suitcases and wheeled out to, the aptly named, Laundryland.

We got there at 7pm, self-service ended at 8pm, so the girl refused us and told us to come back the next day. Kendra went back the next day, but the place was full of Americans.

Our suitcases proceeded to sit in the hallway for a couple of days. Finally this past Tuesday, we we went to Laundryland. CET had also been notified of our problem.

The self-service machines were full, and the lady told us to come back in an hour. Well it was raining out and we were desperate. We asked her for full service instead. A.K.A. we left suitcases full of dirty clothes with an old lady and told her to do our laundry for us. The prices seemed steep but we were desperate.

She told us we could have our clothes the next day.

3pm, Wednesday. Czech class. The lady calls Kendra and tells us its done so we can pick up. Phew. We had spent that whole morning speculating on the condition of our clothes.

We picked up our clothes, paid, and that was it. It was surprisingly cheaper than I expected. Wash, dry, and fold was only $20 for nearly all my clothes. Considering that would be at least 3 loads at the dorms = $15. Not too bad. Our washer is fixed now, but you can't put a price on the softness that a dryer can provide. Its wonderful.