Welcome to our NEW place!

Welcome to our new place! We thought it would be nice to give you all a tour of our new apartment. This is our entryway! Under the staircase there is a nice storage area for suitcases and extra bedding linens. And as you walk in you will notice that we always take off our shoes. To the left of the door there is a large shoe/slippers closet. It's great!

Once you've reached the top of the staircase, you can go left, right or straight. First I will take you to the right. You can see a closed door on your left, that's the toilet room (Only a toilet, nothing else!)

At the end of the hall you walk into a small bedroom. Right now we have a semi-double bed in there. It Japanese size, sort of like a full-size bed in America, just a bit smaller.

From the top of the staircase, if you turn left, you walk into our master bedroom.

Here is our bedroom. We can't really decorate because we can't put holes in the walls. SAD!

If you are standing at the top of the staircase and head straight you walk right into our dining room. Off to the left you can partially see a door. That's our laundry/handwashing sink/shower room. In the far back left is our kitchen and off to the right (what you can't see) are some double doors that open into our living room.

Here is the laundry/handwashing sink/shower room off of the dining room

Here is the kitchen. It comfortably fits one person, but two is a tight squeeze. P. S There's our beautiful new fridge!!

Left side of the Living Room

Right side of the Living Room

All Moved In

What a day! We are exhausted and our feet are really sore. I am all ready for bed, I just wanted to update our blog to show you some pictures of our busy moving day. This morning at 10:30 a.m., three of my English students showed up and helped us move over lots of boxes. After about 2 hours and two seperate trips, they were hot and tired. We sat down for a little snack and chatted. Throghout the whole day Dean and Dan were moving the furniture and larger items. At 6:30 p.m. I made an easy dinner at our new apartment. That was fun! The boys did such a great job and by 9:00 or so, they were totally whipped out, so we all went our seperate ways and crashed.

"The moving Ladies"

Moving things into our kitchen and trying to make space for everything! It's small, but it works for us.

Noriko was our door guard! After moving everything into the apartment we needed a little break.

Finally the hard working men get a break and enjoy some relaxing moments.

Packing....

Who really enjoys packing? We are in "packing mode" today and will be moving tomorrow morning through Friday. I guess it's not so much that I don't like packing and moving, it's all the sorting that comes with it. Yuck! But, I can't complain too much because I am looking soooo forward to the new place we are going too! It's great! Book, books, books....who really needs 100's of books!

Sealed Deal

Yesterday we got the keys to our new apartment, so we got to move some things over there. The coolest thing that happened though was that our boss, Dean Bengtson surprised us with a new refridgerator for the apartment. The one we have been using was quite well used and the one we were planning to use was going to be an 80's style, green refridgerator. Well, Dean found a great deal on a two year old refridgerator and scooped it up! What an awesome guy! We were so excited and very thankful! Here are the picture of our old refridgerator and our new one being moved into the new apartment. This is the old one....
Here's why we needed a new one....
Here's the beautiful NEW one!!!!