Wonderful Wednesday...

OK So Tuesday (or was that Monday?) wasn't so wonderful as I made it all the way into work and to the first room of my office... and then when I stood up to go to another office... flop, flop, flop!!!

 I had a BAD flat tire in my shoe!!!  Yes, this is what it looked like when I got back to the hotel later in the morning.  It was sooo funny!  So no one had any super glue at all at work and *I* had a meeting to go to with the big boss in my area... yeah, fun.  So I asked the Marines across the hall if someone had anything to include duct tape....

 Yep, they had duct tape!!!  Talk about classy, eh?  ha!!!  I fixed up my shoe, kept my foot on the floor and tried to not draw any attention to it!  I then went over to the BX during my lunch break and picked up shoes from there... I did find a nice pair that were very close to what I had but they actually have heels on them and are better for me in the winter weather here!  Score.


Annnndddd today we signed the final paperwork for the apartment.
SO here are the picture from the house today... starting from the top floor - this is the north side room with the tilted ceilings.  I think this will be an office or possibly a guest room.  it's on the 3rd floor - which here is called the 2nd as they start with 0 for ground , then 1 then 2.

 Nice bright hall way with the stairway to the downstairs... and the bath to the right.

 The bath - it's small but functional and the lovely skylight is GREAT - as you can open it and there is a pole to get the window back down again to lock it.  It's GREAT to have the airflow from the bottom floor to the top!

 This is the south room - it's quite large and look at that cute terrace!  I can imagine sitting out there having a tea watching the world!

 OK, down the stairs to the master floor leel....

 The north side room - will be an office or a guest room ... probably an office as it's next to our room and if we put the guest upstairs everyone coming to stay would have their own bath.

 This is the master bedroom and I just noticed that window to the left is full length to the floor... interesting... you can see the shed in the back yard (aka garden)  The others who lived here prior to us had some wardrobes on that side... note that there are NO closets... welcome to Europe... wardrobes are the thing here!

 "master bath" aka main floor bath... two sinks... bath.... and shower behind the door....  I thought I had a picture of that shower... but maybe not...

Here... I'll never understand why they don't shove the toilet over and make a MUCH bigger shower.. but OK... we'll deal with it as it is what it is... it'll do.  The shower is the same size upstairs as here.. and it will do for now... it's a temporary thing... temporary... keep repeating after me.

 This is the hall and that wardrobe will move to a bedroom to be used there... but for now it's in the hall as we purchased it from the prior tenants.

 Yep, MORE stairs!!!!  ha!

 main floor as seen from the kitchen.  those doors ALL open - as in it can be very, very open to the outside... and I LOVE that idea.  We plan on using this as a very large dining room and the living room will go downstairs... yep, there is MORE... four floors...

 Butch putting our lovely $20 microwave into the microwave hole....

 This is the entry area...

 Tiny 1/2 bath right off the front door.

 Potty... why is that toilet paper blowing out?  Not a clue.. probably because the windows are open and I just shut that door, but it's funny that I JUST noticed this as I'm publishing the blog!  ha!

No pictures of the stairs going down this time... they were right beside the 1/2 bath and the door... as you walk in and face a stairwell and a few doors... if you go downstairs you get to this room:

 They consider this a craft room or hobby room... we will call this our living room for the duration and put our living room down here to watch TV and hang out.

 good size storage room in the basement...

 absolutely HUGE landry room with a sink and a FOLDING area... I could even get to like doing laundry down here!!

 The other end... they have heated floors throughout... this is going to be GREAT... the water pipes and heating elements are all in this corner.

 OK, the back yard is in rough shape right now as they had a BIG down out there... a Rottwieler... so a baby horse.  There is straw out there to keep the seed down and we'll rake it up and/or add seed as the spring hits to see if we can get the lawn looking good.  I did tell her I love flowers, so we were given permission to plant as we want.  Should be fun to plant here.

 This is the back of the garage...

This is the other side of the house... so tiny, tiny, tiny!  BUT it's all we need.... really.

I forgot to get a good shot of the front of the house and see how it all looks from the outside.

Friday we get temp furniture... and who knows when we get the rest of the goods... sometime in March I'm sure.  So about three weeks to go until we can really settle in, but it's a start!