Walkway to the apartment door
Walk inside: coat closet, and stairs...
Walk up the steep stairs to get to the apartment...
Turn right at the top of the stairs: living room, view into the kitchen and dining room
From the living room, to the right is the patio (pretty trees outside)
To the left of the living room is master bedroom, bathroom, laundry closet, second bedroom with bath. Here's a peek into the master bedroom
Looking into the kitchen (too small for all our wedding-gift kitchen appliances!) and the dining room
Second bedroom (love that both rooms have walk-in closets...we're making full use of those!)
One more look into the dining room from living room.
...a little boring right now, no? But we love the spacious layout and I'm looking forward to getting it all pulled together. Right now it's pretty much a mess, but maybe I'll post some pics whenever we get it organized and get decorations up!
Side note: having a moving company move your stuff is definitely the way to go. We're spoiled this time because it's reimbursed by the company, but for the future when it's on our own dime...I may see it as a necessary expense. Loved not having to haul all the furniture and boxes up those stairs.
After the movers brought it all in, reassembled the furniture and were on their way, we had a moment to just sit there amid all our stuff and I...definitely got teary-eyed. I haven't had much time to think about the move, leaving behind all our family and friends in Texas, etc., so maybe that was one of the first times it really hit me. I definitely miss our people back home already, but I need to focus on our new adventures and all the experiences we'll have up here. And of course, there are phones, Skype, planes...we can still stay very much connected with our Texas family!
Plenty to keep my mind occupied as we try to adjust to life as New Yorkers this week. I start next Monday and we still have plenty of little tasks to do before then! We visited a Southern Baptist church on Sunday and it felt very similar to churches back home. Went to a Sunday school and the people were very nice -- several of them had Texas connections themselves! In other news, Brad's looking at getting a vehicle of his own...he has it narrowed down to a ranger and a couple of F-150's...I'm excited for him to have a truck again after we've been sharing a vehicle for over a year! I'm sure he's excited too :)
Oh, I guess I should talk about the weather since that's a big difference up here...actually, when we got in on Thursday I think it was 102...maybe a couple degrees hotter than in TX even! But this week, it's supposed to be in the 60's and 70's...meanwhile, FB friends are posting pics of the forecast for the week: 100+ temperatures mostly. So for this week at least, I get to be smug :) but I know it'll be a rude awakening come October/November...we realllly don't know what we're getting into with this snow stuff.
Plenty of updates to come as we become New Yorkers, but I'll leave you with some fun pictures from the unpacking process. The movers used sooo much packing paper (naturally, they don't want to break our stuff since they'd be held responsible) and rather than dispose of it as we unpack, we decided to build a giant mountain out of it in the dining room, just to see how high it could reach.
Easily amused.
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