- 08
- Feb
Compared to the insanity of the current northeastern US snowfalls, I consider our snow here to be a mini-snow. Or even a mini-mini-snow. But anyway, we got 1 or 2 inches the other day. It may snow a bit more this week, but of course nothing like the 2 feet + other parts of the world are getting!
But the girls were excited about the mini-snow so we took out some cookie sheets (we later bought big round plastic “washing tubs” that people use to wash their clothes and used them… they were even better…).
We have a great area to walk around in the new place. There are several pedestrian only zones that make for a good safe walk. Right in the middle of the complex there is an oblong “pond” thing that is currently ice. There are some restaurants and other things that overlook the water that might be good to try in the spring. The red round building below appears to be the apartment management facility and it sits in the middle of the pond. Our apartment building, btw, is the white building on the far left side of the photo below.
There are lots of little stores on the first floors of the apartment buildings, so going for a walk has built-in entertainment.
We particularly like this toy store- and Eric James (Keith’s brother), I think this means you have to come visit!!
Side note: Nice Santa!!
So, I have one more set of outside pics that must be shared, but first I’ll show a few pics of inside our apartment.
This is the dining room. The boxes were gone about 2 hours after I took this pic but I was too lazy to take another one. Just imagine no boxes, ok?
On the left side at the end of that hallway is our kitchen…. we don’t have room in the kitchen for the refrigerators, so I have them in the entry hallway there. I tell myself it isn’t that my kitchen is too small… it is that I have a wrap-around kitchen. It is the latest in home design, you know?
I haven’t shown our office yet because it isn’t very interesting. And it still needs some love. Like, a lot of love. It is where our dryer is for now (they forgot to put an outlet on the balcony for it) and it is also where everything we haven’t sorted yet is currently living.
Our bedroom… in case you are wondering, the green thing is a frog-shaped humidifier. Gotta love living in Asia. It can be hard to find things that are “boring” looking when it comes to your appliances!
Our living room… I was aiming for a celery green/chocolate combo here. I hope it works with the orangey-yellow floors.
Finally, the outside pics. There is an exercise facility/gym in our apartment complex. It is called Just. I don’t know why the name is Just. It JUST is. Haha.
They have 3 mini-slogans at Just. I will share them with you.
So that’s not bad, right?
And stretching isn’t a bad thing…
Ahhh, yes, my favorite. I’m thinking about making this the motto of our home. We could greet people at the door with this gem. It would make them feel, I don’t know, welcome?
Have a great day. We’re enjoying our Chinese New Year break and trying to completely unpack and settle in. Well, between fireworks, that is. They’re slowly starting up and I’m sure they’ll be full scale by next Sunday (the 14th) which is both Valentine’s Day AND Chinese New Year this year!






















































