A New Home

We have a new home.  Through the wonderful Internet, a fellow SENDer and friend, and Hannah we have already chosen an apartment.  It will be ours as soon as we arrive.  What a wonderful feeling to know we have a place to call home.

It's 110 square meters (1184 square feet).  3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.  It even has a dishwasher!  It is considered to be on the 3rd floor, however it is really the 4th (the 1st floor of the building is shops).   It doesn't have a terrace (patio), but it does have big windows on one side that look out into green space, a luxury with a city apartment.  There is a pool - Spaniards definition of air condition (in other words, when it is hot, like 100 degrees plus, and open windows are not enough to cool off take a dip in the pool - very common for apartments to have a pool).  Two of the three bedrooms have built in closets and the kitchen was even furnished with cabinets, both added blessings.  We do not have a parking place - that costs extra - but until we master the driver's test that is not an issue.

Hannah's bus stop is about a 5 minute walk.  Scott's language school is about 2.5 miles away.  Alex will have several school choices.  There is a coffee shop in the bottom of the building.  There is not a pub (a bar is a restaurant that serves wine and beer and food, a pub is for harder drinking and partying) in the building.

We are excited to be able to land in our own place.  We have no furniture and the items we are shipping will not arrive until the 21st of October, but we will have a roof over our heads and a place to call home.  What more can we ask for?

Clothes Line - Hang out either the living room or master bedroom window and hang out the laundry -
this should take some talent to not fall out.

Built in closet

Courtyard

Hall Bath

Kitchen

Washing Machine is in the Kitchen - the door to the right is to an extra "drying" room -
if we had a dryer it would go out there, but also for extra storage 

One last kitchen View

Living Room 

Master Bath

Master Bedroom

Outside View

There is a playground in the courtyard

The pool on the right goes with our apartment complex -
the pool on the left is another apartment complex

In the mirror's reflection you can see the 2nd toilet, called a bidet -
so far I have seen it used for storing cleaning supplies and a potted plant