Changing the sheets...

What I just went through deserves a post of its own...  and only partially because I need to take a breather before attempting anything else.

Every two weeks I get new sheets.  The two weeks was up on Sunday, but I didn't really have a chance to get to changing the sheets until tonight.  I have loved my bed here since the first time I laid down on it.  I believe it is memory foam, because there are no springs in it and it molds wonderfully to me!  Spoiled, I know.  One of the first things I noticed was that the bed includes a fitted sheet for the mattress, a duvet, and a thin blanket on top.  I thought I would be cold, but the feather duvet is surprisingly warm!  Spoiled, I know.  Now, I didn't realize how exactly I would change the sheet until about half an hour ago when I examined the pile of sheets and realized that the duvet has a slip cover/sheet thing that serves as a top sheet.  I set to work stripping the pillow and bed and recovered the pillow.  The mattress was a bit tougher cause I had to lift it up to get the sheet around it.  Being memory foam, it wanted to hold it previous position and was rather heavy.  That was nothing, however, to the ordeal facing me in recovering the duvet.  I've never really done that before, so I had no idea how to set about doing so.  Slipping it on like a pillow didn't work.  Rolling it up to unroll it inside didn't work.  Flopping it over my body and working it in that way didn't work.  And, just stuffing it would never get it as even as it had been before.  When I had no other ideas I noticed that the cover itself was inside out and after sighing about one more obstacle, it hit me!  Lo and behold, I could lay the duvet out on the cover then turn the whole thing inside-out, keeping it in place the whole time.  Thank you Mom for the many straps and sewing projects I flipped inside-out.  Wah-lah!  My planned worked and I finished making my first German bed.  So, next time you have to recover a duvet, flip the cover inside-out, lay the duvet on top of it and then flip it all together!  I hope I'm not the only one who didn't know this already...

I think my arms have recovered now, so off to sleep in that bed in preparation for our trip to Dessau tomorrow.  More Germany to come!