Moved In!

Tuesday was move day, though we got the keys and started moving ourselves before dinner on Monday evening.  Then after dinner with friends at the Columbia lakefront we finished moving all the closets.  Movers did the heavy stuff.  It was all done by 1 pm.

Here is how it looked this morning.  Since taking these photos I've been hanging pictures.

Here's our front door which opens on our foyer.

To the left is the kitchen, dining room and living room.

To the right are the two bedrooms and two baths.

My desk is in our bedroom again.

Dan's is in the 2nd bedroom we call the multipurpose room.  There's a balcony on this side too.

A view on the kitchen again.  That refrigerator was exchanged today for a larger one, and the cabinets were installed over top it.

Here's the balcony off the living room.

We can see Wilde Lake which I love to walk around.

We can see the other wing of Vantage House.

The Columbia Mall is in the distance there.

Looking over the rail is the garden.

Lots of organizing yet to do but its feeling like home.

What's This? (18)

Haven't posted a "What's This" in awhile but when my brother shared some of his photos with me from our trip to Europe I had to show you this.

What is it?  Can you guess?

The photo was taken in Melk Abbey.  Go to the Wikipedia site to see if you can find a photo very similar to this one identifying what it is.

Dan and I didn't take this excursion from the cruise ship to see Melk Abbey.

Other photos of our trip start here if you missed them.

Random Offerings from the Files

First my parents.

My dad would have been 98 on September 12th, they would have celebrated 76 years of marriage on the 14th, and Mom left us 3 years ago on the 26th.  Dad died in December of 2007.

On a vacation to Lake Ontario we drove up to see the St. Lawrence and take a boat ride tour.  Here's our first view of the river from the street.  Town name has escaped me.

On board the boat with a view of some of the houses in the 1000 Islands.

This is a lighthouse on the St. Lawrence but from another trip there.

And from Landsberg, Germany this past June here is where Dan and I had lunch.

 Notice the shawls on the chairs?  I thought someone had left one behind then realized all the chairs had them.  The air could be cold as we sat there and I was glad to have the shawl.

Above a tomato and cheese sandwich on a baguette and pizza below.

Unlike any kind of pizza we've had before.  Good though.

Moving Again!

Yes, believe it or not we are moving after just over two months here in this one bedroom at Vantage House. But that was the plan all along though we never expected it would happen so soon, nor that we would get the type of two bedroom unit we wanted and on the same floor we are now.  There are only 12 of these types of units out of 100s of units so it was a long shot we thought.

Move day is next week.  Movers have been ordered.  Vantage House is paying the bill.  The unit is still in renovation stages but the finish date is Friday or Saturday.  The cleaning crew tackles it on Monday and then we move in.

Here are some shots as of today.  We could see the colors we had picked out for the walls.  Pale yellow in the living area, brighter yellow in our extra bedroom we are calling a multipurpose room and deeper yellows in the bathrooms.  Our bedroom is two shades of brown.

Here is the door to our current apartment.

Down the hall at the very end is our new one.

From the foyer the living area is to the left.

Views south from balcony off living room.

We also look west and east.

Unlike our present apartment we will have views in three directions instead of just one.

The multipurpose room

It has a balcony too.

Our two toned bedroom.

The view from our door down the hall to the elevator.  Did I say we are on the 11th floor?

We are excited by the prospect of finally being settled in our home for many years to come.