Our Apartment Update

Within a couple days of arriving here we found a wonderful apartment. It was not one we had planned on looking at. Initially, we thought that we would need to have a terrace or balcony to smooth the transition to City Life living. Upon looking at some apartments with Said Balcony/Terrace, we quickly realized that our wish turned into more of a nightmare. We were both filled with anxiety over the safety of the kids - and Dan and I (generally) aren't big worriers. Our friend, Brad, had set up an appointment for us to look at another apartment that (honestly) I wasn't too wild about before this Balcony Realization because it was missing Said Feature. Needless to say, we instantly fell in love. First off, it's just around the corner from our friends and teammates and just a couple tram stops away from our church. We're also thrilled to be living above Hofer (the European Aldi).

It's on the ground floor and we're a couple stories up on the second floor. We also love the ceilings. It's an old factory building, so it has these wonderfully tall ceilings.

And we're SO grateful for the space! The living room & dining room areas are larger than we expected to find and we're excited about that. We've already found that we have people over often - which makes us all the more pleased that we'll be able to continue hosting friends.

When we left the US, we shipped some of our stuff over here. It was originally suppose to arrive on December 24th.

As of today, we still haven't received it. We've been given a tentative date of arrival as Tuesday, January 11th. Either way, we'll be out of the our friend's apartment on Friday, January 15th, because they'll be returning from Florida!

We're thrilled with the new place and look forward to making it home.