Our Home

Several of you have asked to see what our place looks like. Here are some pictures of the exterior of our apartment (the small one is ours - the tower is for regular students) and a picture of what it looks like from the front door of our apartment. The picture shows the beginning of one of the bike paths - which you can actually drive down with your car as well. A little narrow for that Texas Suburban huh? Jay accidentally went down one the other day trying to get to a gas station and found concrete barriers at the end - obviously that particular one wasn't meant for driving on! He had to turn down the path and jump the curb to get to the road since it was probably a good 100 yards and curvy to back up! One of many of our little oops moments!

There are also some shots of our apartment interior(actually our first one which is the same but had one less bedroom and was significantly less mess than our current one!). You'll notice that there are moveable windows between the kitchen and dining areas - guess it keeps the smells in and makes you feel like you have a little privacy?? This week we bought a second refrigerator so now I have two dorm sized fridges!! woohoo! Now I actually have a place to keep a head of cabbage (they are the size of a small beach ball and you can buy a bag of 6 for 99 cents!!). I'm living now and won't have to go to the grocery everyday anymore - just every few days.
















The beds here are all twin size and in the master they just put two together. Actually makes for a nice sleep since you don't feel the other person rolling around....now, about that snoring!! The girls have bunk beds. All the floors are linoleum or tile - very common around here. Carpet is reserved for bedrooms if any at all. They do have some area rugs but most people just have hard floors. The windows are quite interesting - they are on hinges like doors and no one has screens. Mosquitos are a rarity and the Germans live outside in the summer. Everyone has an outdoor dining area AND uses it a lot. Makes me wonder if it's because the winters are so bad??

In another post I'll show you around our neighborhood - it is very quaint. The girls want to download a movie but I"m not sure my techno skills are quite that sophisticated. You Tube here we come.

More next time.