4 trunks, 3 back-packs, 4 suitcases, a guitar, and Molly Paws Kennel is all we left Colorado with! (Not pictured is MP's kennel, my back-pack, and my suitcase) I can't believe this is our life for the next year or so!! Everything else is sold or in storage. It actually felt freeing to intensely go through our house/life and figure out what we really had to have to live, and what was worth storing for an entire year or more. We made numerous car loads to Good Will and it felt oh so good!
We decided to get a 2 month lease in a semi-cheap place when we came down here just to get out feet on the ground, and then figure out permanent housing when we were here so we could get to the know the town more. The place we are currently staying is, less than ideal and is tiny!! When I say tiny, for the love of Pete, I mean TINY!! Here are some pictures of the place. Our entire living space is literally the size of our living room in our house in Longmont! We are surviving and it is actually helping us be thankful for all we have back home.
This is the front looking from the street.
Here's the kitchen, the bedroom is right over on the other side where you see our bags piled up on the top bunk. There is a bunk bed and a queen bed all in the same room! Sharing a room with Jeff is hard enough sometimes, but sharing with Gentry David and Jeff...it's not quite as romantic as one might think :)
Here is the porch that Jeff works at every day, and where we hang out when we need to put G down to bed until he falls asleep, which is about 10 minutes at the most everyday! Hallelujah for that cause the mosquito's can be pretty fierce at night!
This is the front gate that heads into the apartments. It stays locked at all times, and the owners brag that they have never been broken into in all 6 years they have owned it! Apparently that is something to brag about around here :)
There are 4 apartments here. One of our neighbors is an American who works down here, I have no idea what he does and haven't even met him yet! There is a couple of single guys next door who are down here traveling. The are about as opposite from Jeff and I as they come. They party most every night, often throw out the F bomb and don't even notice there are kids around, and sleep til about 2 everyday. Other than driving us crazy at night and the constant F bombs that we have to shield Gentry from they are okay guys. One night about 1am Gentry got out of bed and started screaming at the top of his lungs "Are you kidding me? It's the middle of the night people! When are you dudes gonna go to sleep already? Your killing me!!" Jeff and I laughed hysterically, the guys didn't even notice, and we then invested in ear plugs for the entire family so our sweet 7 year old can sleep!
There is a mom and 2 kids that is the property manager that lives downstairs. We absolutely adore them! Kathia has been giving Gentry and I Spanish lessons in the morning. She has taught me how to cook some local dishes, and took us to church with her last week. Her son Gabriel is 10 and he and Gentry have become buddies. He goes to the beach in the afternoon with us most days. Her daughter Katherine is 3 and is seriously the cutest thing you have every seen. For some reason she absolutely loves me and want to play with me all the time. We can't really communicate because she speaks only Spanish and I only speak English, but somehow we make it work. The most common phrase you will hear us both say is "Como se dice..."
Katherine is seriously cute! Most days she just has on a t-shirt and little princess undies :) She sits in on our Spanish lessons and helps me and G pronounce words and corrects us when we get them wrong. She softens the blow of not knowing the language :)
Our daily routine consist of hitting the beach with MP and Gabriel around 3:30 pm. The beach is absolutely beautiful and during the week hardly anyone is here. It's so hot during the day we stay inside and then come out when the sun is heading down, it's working out pretty well!
Gentry and Gabriel have set up a bb gun range in the parking lot of the apartments. G is a pretty dang good shot! He gets it from his momma...maybe his grandad and dad have a little something to do with it also :)
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