Apartment

Hello all my Family and Friends!!
Sorry I have not posted anything for a couple of days, but not a lot of new adventures to tell you about.
But I do have a very exciting one to tell you today! Grant and I got to move into our new apartment on Wednesday Feb 25, 2015. I though I died and went to heaven, it was so nice to get out of the hotel. Now I can cook, do laundry, and even sit on a couch!! Ya I know who would ever be excited to sit on a couch, but when you do not have something that is when you appreciate it.
Anyhow let me tell you about our apartment(Sorry for some of the pictures are a little blurry but I tried my best for you):

This is the entry into our apartment, and along the wall is closet space(all shelving on this side)

This of coarse is the other side with a small walk in closet

Sorry very blurry but you can make it out somewhat

just a different angle of the same closet

The entry goes into this hall way. The entry is the door way on the right side, straight ahead is the main bathroom, the far doorway by the bathroom is the spare bedroom and the close doorway(which you can barely see) is the office(which will of coarse be my sewing room as well!!!)

This is in the main bathroom

the rest of the tub

the bathrooms are quite small here, and the floors in the bathrooms are not heated. All the buildings are heated by floor heat.

Now we are in the spare bedroom, and the closets all have organizers in them.

They put in shelving and closets in very space available

Nice big windows in all the rooms. And remember I do have a spare room for you who would like to come, it will cost you to stay though a tin of Timmie's coffee grounds!

So now this will be the office/ sewing room

We had asked for a second desk for my sewing machine to go on, and with no problems they provided it for me.

So now we are standing in the living room and the doorway on the left was the hallway we just left in above pictures, straight ahead is the master bedroom and there is a pocket door on the right side that goes into the kitchen.

different view in the living room, and you can see the first hallway entry I showed you 

Our couch and chair are leather, and they are a navy blue. You can see the living room, dining room are kind of one room, which blend into the kitchen.

This is taking from the kitchen

You can see the pocket door I was talking about earlier.

And this is from the pocket door view, Off on the right side towards the water cooler is a doorway which leads into the laundry room.

This is my laundry room and the small room behind it is called a fire room, this is if  there is a fire and we can not get out we go to this room and close the door( which is fire proof) and open the window and the fire fighters will get us out of there. Cross my fingers and pray to God we never need to use it.

The washer is a washer/dryer combo, let me tell you never to buy one, they are horrible it takes 4 hours to do one load of laundry and that was not a heavy load. We do have a room for hanging up our clothes to dry them as well which I used, but after being in the hotel for so long I had a ton of dirty clothes to get done and the hanging room was full!!

This is the hanging room and it is just off of our master bedroom. There is a hanger rack that comes down from the ceiling and then we also have a clothes rack. You have to open the window because it gets very humid in there and being winter time right now it takes for ever to dry clothes. You can also see that there are a set of patio doors between the drying room and our bedroom.

this is a view from the drying room

when it is not full of clothes you can see lots from here

This of coarse is the master bedroom

we have a small vanity in between the closet and the bathroom

it also has little cupboards under the counter top,  I need to buy a small chair for here.

This is our walk in closet

the master bathroom, and a kick ass shower let me tell you!!

different view

And had to take a picture of this, can you see these two red necks using a bidet!! Well all the toilets here have this fancy bum washing thing. And to boot the seat is even heated, can you believe that all I can think of is wouldn't our Grandparents and some of our parents loved to have one of these in the outhouse on a cold winter day! LOL 

Well I think that's all for today I need to take some more pictures and post how 

electronic this apartment is, its something else and I'm still trying to figure out how to turn lights on and off!

Saturday night

So we actual went out on Saturday night, we bought tickets to a Robbie Burns night at the club. We have supper, which included"haggis", and then music from a live band from Scottland. There was a bagpiper, accordion and a guitar, it was awesome fun night. Then on Sunday we went back over in the afternoon, and had curry chicken with rice and naan bread, with more music and drinks!

We had a great time but did not go for our walk on Sunday, but we did go on Saturday and we bought unbrallas, it rained most of Saturday and part of Sunday, but nice to see moister because it is very dry here right now.

A Walk to the Harbour

Sorry everyone missed a day, but not much happened just went to stitching at the club and Grant and I went for a short walk.
But here I have pictures for you as we walked down to the harbor today!! I thought it was going to be a haul so I packed a water bottle and my camera, Grant laughed at me and said what ever. We headed out and it was only about 10 blocks, but you must realize that our blocks are about 2 of there's, but up and down the hills.

this is just a picture of the landscape

there seagulls here are BIG!!

in this picture is part of a dry dock with 2 cranes in back ground

here you can see a container ship in the back and a oil tanker on the right hand side(just the front of it)

this is a picture of 2 off shore drilling rigs and if you look hard you will see a container ship on the right hand side of it, the one Grant is working on will be bigger than these two, but his rig is drilling and production.

this picture and the next one are both the oil tanker

you can see the little boat coming in from sea, it looks so small against those rigs, the next picture is the fishing boat. Its not huge but still those rigs are massive.

this is the fishing boat

when you are walking though the streets the are bars and pubs allover the place, I just got a kick out of the name of this one.

sorry this is sideways, but this is to show you how they park their bikes, most of them are delivery bikes, and when you are walking you have to be very careful beside they ride down the sideways to get around the traffic

this corner we came up on, we were wondering if it gave crazy corner in Leduc a run for its money, lol it has 5 streets coming into one, and look at that one building on the right its so skinny

better picture of skinny building

this is some of there man hole covers.

See ya all tomorrow :)

Wednesday feb 18,2015

Not to much excitement today, there is a Korean holiday for the next three days. So Grant is on a holiday already! We walked down to the market and walked back up to the hotel a different way again. Bought some fabric at the market to do hand sewing until my stuff comes from Canada, I am making a teddy bear. 

Tuesday feb 17,2015

So not much new today either, but I did venture out on my own and though I might go take in the open market. So away I went, well was doing good until I thought hay I going to take a short cut and avoid some of the hills! Ya I came along to a local lady and asked her were the market was, well she started explaining it to me but it was not English! I just stood there and I must of had a dumb look on my face because she all of sudden stopped talking and started laughing. All I could do was laugh with her, we played chardes and I got to the market.

Monday feb16,2015

Not to much exciting today. Grant went to work and I went over to the gfra club and had coffee with some of the girls, they did there stitching(hand sewing, embroidery, cross stitching, etc) and I just sat and visited, cannot wait for my stuff to come from Canada. It sounds like we are able to move into our apartment on the 25th of February, I am so happy that way I can unpack and get settled. I guess that's all for now, ttyl😉

Sunday stroll

So Grant and I went on a stroll this morning around the building we are going to be living in, just to take in the sites and to get our bearings were things are. And as I said before you are either going up a slope or down a slope, so Grant took some pictures around our building.

This is in front of the building

We are in the one at the far end

You can see the set of stairs on the left side, this is from street level to the ground floor in the apartments, on the street level under the apartment building in a huge supermart, one floor in groceries another in household things, we will be able to take a elevator right into the store!

This is the back of the building.

This is the back as well but here is some of the mountainside in the picture. Also the red roof is the hotel we are staying in right now.

Grant had to take this picture because were do you find delivery vehicles for MacDonald!! This is across the street from us.

Grant and I also joined the foreigners group today, we will be able to go and do different things like on Mondays and Thursday's the ladies get together and do crafts, and on Sunday mornings there is a group that get together and go hiking in the mountains, and lots of other things, they have lunch there Monday to Friday  and for suppers they serve western foods as well as different cultures. It should be fun and we will meet lots of different people from around the world.