Home Sweet Home

It is our first official day at our new place and here I am sitting in McDonald's of all places for 3 very good reasons: it is air conditioned, it has chairs, it has free internet access... all of which our apartment does not have at the time. Don't get me wrong, I have no complaints - I am looking out at the beach, at a blue, cloudless sky and sunshine for miles, and enjoying being freezing for a few moments (it reminds me of home!), but I do have a bone to pick with the previous apartment owners. I am fairly certain that every tap in the house has a drip. I am also almost positive that at any given time when the former tenants (brothers) were walking around the apartment they were dragging their hands against the wall regardless of what might have been on their fingers - yuck. On close inspection I am not even certain I know the true paint colour. Whatever is coating my walls, I have a giant bottle of germ killing, all-purpose cleaner that will be put to the test in the next couple of days!

There is a website here that is much like our "craigslist" called "gumtree" and I've been making phone calls and sending emails about potential furnishings, appliances, fans, etc. Oddly enough when you rent here the place does not come with a fridge! This is very counterintuitive to me, as I would imagine the average renter would be fairly transient, and would probably not be lugging a refrigerator around. The hunt is on!

As it stands all we have are the clothes on our backs (x 100 outfits for me) and lots of space to fill! The fun things is that I'm in charge of furnishings and decorating. Ikea here I come...

For our first week or so we will be cozy at night on a borrowed air mattress with pillows I managed to find at the grocery store, eating at the cafe or little thai restaurant below our place and entertaining ourselves by doing fashion shows with all of our outfits (kidding!)... Oh right! Or there is always the beach. :)