Hi Honey! We’re home!

Well, we’ve found our permanent house for the coming year. We had an exciting time Sunday noon, moving two small carloads of food and luggage to the new house.  It took all of about an hour, and that’s because we were taking our time.  🙂

The first temporary house, at 96 Kew Road, was just across the street from the hospital and owned by the hospital.  It was an older, smaller home.  It was a nice place to start and would have been fine if needed, but it is nice to be in a newer, slightly larger home.  We’re now at 630 Elles Road, Invercargill 9812, NZ, if anyone would like to send a CARE package our way.  I don’t know what it would contain, as Asta & I are quite happy with what we’re finding here.  The kids on the other hand, especially Aras, do miss their American foods.  The mac & cheese isn’t quite the same; “bacon” here is ham as we know it, and anything else about which Aras would like to complain.  But, I digress…

It was supposed to rain and possibly hail today, so I thought that I’d better take some photographs while the taking was good.  Actually, it only rained a few times and has turned out to be a nice day.  Our “new” home is actually a new home that was most recently occupied by a gynecologist and his wife while they were here on a similar locum tenens work visit as Asta is on now.  It doesn’t seem that this house has yet had a permanent owner as it was on the market and available, but also made available for the possibility of being rented as a furnished home.  And that’s where we come in.

You may “click” on the pictures in this gallery to see larger versions…

Julija’s room (Aras’ room is already too messy to show)

Looking from the TV towards the “sitting parlor” 😉

Main living area, looking across the room from the TV; kitchen in the bkgd

Looking from the kitchen towards the TV & dining area

Northwest side of the house, looking from the street. Remember, the sun comes in from the north here!

Satellite view of the area where we’re living; if you’ll notice, our new home is just a lot on the aerial photo, as it hadn’t been built at the time of the photo

North east side of the house

Asta’s bedroom, where Tim might be allowed to sleep…

The house is ~133 square meters, which translates into about 1300 sqft.  It’s certainly smaller than our home in Fitchburg, but we like it.  It’s warm, cozy and sunny.  The biggest issue is that while we were used to each having our own space in our Fitchburg home, it’s not as easy to get away from each other here.  We’re about a kilometer south of the hospital and Asta is looking forward to walking to work and getting some exercise.  And, she’s also looking forward to the chauffeur driving her to work on rainy days.  The other big benefit is that we have much better internet service in this house than was available in the Kew Road home, so it’ll be easier for me to share more through my blog.  And, this also means fewer trips to the public library to use their wifi!

The next big chore is to buy a used car…

OK, I guess that this all for today.  If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

46 S EnZed signing off…