The Battle With The Washing Machine

Have you ever had a "thank goodness for modern day technology" moment? I've had about a thousand of those here. Last night is probably in my top three.

We finally got the washing machine fixed yesterday. It was not user error the water source just needed to be connected. It's always a win when it's not you that was the problem : )

Last night we decided to do a load of wash. We've had to do a few loads since we've been living out of our suitcases and it was starting to be about that time again. It started fine, but then after about 30 minutes of running, it stopped, everything was still soapy and all of the lights were flashing. At the Airbnb flat we stayed in, I had to empty a water container from the dryer, so I looked around for a similar feature but couldn't find one. We turned it to the spin out and dry only cycle, and discovered that this is what seemed to be the problem. The water was not draining in order to move it to this cycle.

We took matters into our own hands. Grabbing a bucket and towels draining the water out so that we could retrieve our clothes. We weren't getting this fixed tonight and I didn't want our clothes to be ruined. As we pulled them out, they all seemed to be tinted blue. Yes, the detergent tinted our light colored clothes blue.

We moved them to the bath tub and began trying to rinse the soap from them. As I was ringing the wet clothes out and handing them to Aaron so he could hang them, I had one of those "thank goodness for modern day technology" moments because I could not do this every time we needed to do laundry. And yes, I was also a little angry.

Looking back it's kind of funny. Still just kind of: this image of sopping wet blue clothes decorating our bathroom while I curse and Aaron tries to calm me down. But one day it will be really funny, and we'll say, "Remember that time we battled it out with our washer?" It definitely won.