Successful move!

It's done! We managed to get moved with a minimum of trouble, thanks to Sebastian Espinoza Moving. This is our 4th or 5th exposure to him, a couple moves of things we bought from others and our two major moves. Highly recommended!

We sold our refrigerator and bought another (bigger) used one from friends and we also sold a lot of smaller stuff that we couldn't use (painted bench, rug, heater, dishes, etc). Now we have a bunch of little things left to sell.

Getting closer to moving day!

We are less than a week away from our move date and 95% of our "things" are packed. Sort of organized chaos!

Packing is the order of the day!

Here are a few photos....

Work station for packing - all the boxes are empty!

Stu packing up kitchen items

Empty box pile shrinking - time to pick up more boxes!

Ciao for now!

Moving on....

Well, sort of. As much as we love our current apartment (and our neverending views), we ran across another very nice but smaller (and cheaper) brand new (never lived in) apartment in our old neighborhood.

Since our lease is up the end of this month, we figured we had nothing to lose by looking at it. Well, we rented it and the next three weeks are going to be hectic. Packing, moving, showing our current apartment, selling furniture that won't fit in the new place.

Eeek!! Glad we only have two more weeks of Spanish classes!

Here are some photos from the original ad:

We still get a kitchen peninsula. The laundry room is the paneled door on the right. 

Dining room to the left and the 2nd bath. Long living room.

Brand new and BOTH showers are big! Stu is happy. 

Master bedroom - going back to queen bed (already sold our king size)

YES! We have our own balcony. So excited!!

We are heading to the apartment today for floor planning measurements. Some of our furniture will need to be sold, just need to figure out what!

We are two blocks from the Yanuncay river and still a little over a mile from Popacuchu, one of our favorite places to eat. I'll be close enough to walk to Romy's, my mani-pedi spot and Stu can ride his bicycle on the river trail.

Ahhh, life is good...just don't be surprised if we're not posting much until July!

Ciao for now!

A Few Apartment Photos

Everything is unpacked, the boxes and packing material have been returned to our expat friends, ready for someone else to borrow and thinks are settling in. Today we hung a few more wall decorations and I snagged a few photos.

Still a lot to do but we need to buy a few more things for the walls first. At least the walls aren't completely bare in all the rooms. LOL! The dining room table still has the little baskets that I've bought for decoration, the bookcase is stuffed and needs to be spread out a bit, we want a wall hanging to put above the television and we want to put up a family wall behind my chair (oops, forgot to take a photo of that corner).

We plan to put sheers in all the windows except the master where we already have a Roman shade, purchased from the previous occupant. But no rush, it's not like we have folks peeking in our 6th floor windows.

Living - Office - Dining - Kitchen areas


Master Bedroom - Master Bath


Guest Rooms - Guest Bath

So that's a little peek into our new place...enjoy!

Thursday is MOVE day!!

We have been busy packing, okay, so Stu did the majority (thank you sweetie, love you!). The walls are patched and painted, we pick up our keys on Wednesday, we move on Thursday and hopefully get our new DirecTV service installed that day and our Internet on Thursday (Friday at the latest).

This will probably be my last post until next weekend while we unpack and try to make some sense out of the chaos. But I can promise you we'll be enjoying our rooftop terrace every chance we get (when the weather cooperates). Keep your fingers crossed that all goes as planned!