New House

We have been in the house now for one week! Yay! Of course, Logan left on Saturday so he was only here for three days. We were lucky that our stuff got here the weekend before we moved in so that all our stuff was here on day one. Many people have to wait several weeks sometimes before their stuff gets here. Very lucky for us, although, I'm not sure living in a hotel for 40 days was that great either.

I don't know if it is good or sad knowing that all my earthly possessions easily fit in just two parking spots.  

The funny thing is that on the day we got the call that we would be moving into our house, I had just relented and put my clothes away in the hotel drawers and decorated the place. Irony.

We got the keys the night before moving in and so went to check out the new house. Did I mention they gave us NINE keys and then another one when they took the lock box off! lol.

The building has four units in it and this pic is showing the last two. We are apartment B on the Right. So far there hasn't been any problems with having neighbors on either side. I love that we don't have upstairs neighbors! But I'm sad that our palm tree recently broke off in a typhoon just before moving in. 

So here are some of the pics of our new place. I still don't have everything where I want it or the pics on the walls so you will have to wait until hopefully next week when it is all done. I also am waiting for them to come pick up all the gazillion boxes I have in my dining room right now.

The stairs are right in front of the door (bad Feng shui ) or you can down the hallway to the living room in the back or right to the kitchen. The kitchen is right next to the dining room and the doors on the left hide the washer/dryer. I hate the red hand rail!! They said I can't even paint it. 

Washer/dryer closet and looking though the pass through into the rest of the kitchen. I have so much counter space! 

Dining room and then if you go down the hallway to the living room there is a closet under the stairs. 

There is a second big closet across and it is next to a bathroom. 

Really long living room that my furniture doesn't fit well in. Logan is watching "TV" (that is the only place the TV can go without running a cable across the very big sliding doors. One view from the kitchen door and the other is from the hallway.

Going upstairs and looking back down the stairs and then looking down the upstairs hallway. 

Office and guest bed.

Second bathroom and looking at the master from the master bath (the door is to the left). 

The en-suite.

Here is a floor plan I made so the pics would make more since!! (note, this is just a rough sketch!)

I forgot to get pics of the back yard so I will post some later. Its not that exciting. Just a grass lawn with a fence and then lots of green trees behind it. I don't actually have a single tree in my yard though. sad.

The same week we moved into our house, Logan finally got a car! He loves it! We bough it from a friend and it was actually one of the first cars we drove in when we got here. After that, Logan was like "I want a car just like that" and so I think it is funny that we got the exact car! Logan named him Tiny Tim but I just call him "Timmy".

Doesn't he look happy! :)

I thought this was a good pic that shows how small his car is! I have a Honda Fit (small white car) and our neighbors have a pretty small car (silver car) too but it is a lot longer than mine. Logan's car is super tiny! 

One fun thing about getting into a new place is that they always need some new furniture and organizing things.  My friend Annie and me have been having fun going out to different places. If I was surprised how much Japanese people loved Halloweenn then it was even a bigger shock that for some reason that they REALLY like Christmas! It is everywhere already!

I told Annie "I should have you go stand in front of the Christmas stuff so I can put it on my blog" and she was like "yeah haha... oh, your serious!" and was nice enough to do it for me!