new housey!

I've been promising photos of the new housey, but just haven't delivered. Bad, bad blogger! I have to say that vacationing is taking a lot out of me (I know, you're shedding tears for poor me...tired out by travelling all over a beautiful country!) and the effort of keeping up with the blog has just been too much for me. Tonight is really not an exception. So I'll quell your thirst for photos, but that's about all I can do for you tonight. It may be a few more weeks before I can regularly update the blog and do some substantial writing, but the time will come again, I promise.

In the meantime, here are just a few of the photos of the new housey:

Our front door. I know it looks a little like robohouse with the metal window coverings. You may think it's some sort of crazy army armor for our home. But really, it's a German thing. Instead of blinds inside the house, there are blinds on the outside of the house that can be raised and lowered from inside, next to each window. While the house is empty and we don't have any curtains hung, we're keeping most of them down. Except for the one in the first floor bathroom, which is providing light to the plants that we've already brought to the new house. The structure of the house is basically a three-unit set of row houses, with ours being the end unit on the right.

This is the view from the entry way, looking at the huge (and currently very empty) dining area and living room.

Our new kitchen. Though you can't see it, the kitchen has a door. That can be closed and locked. It's a little strange.

This is one view of the huge bathroom on the second floor. Opposite the tub are two sinks, with separate medicine cabinets and storage cabinets beneath. To the left of the ginormous tub is a shower. Also on the second floor is a small bedroom that we'll be using as our guest bedroom (hint, hint....we would really like some visitors) and a large bedroom that we'll be using as an office/spare bedroom.

This is just one half of the master bedroom. It curves around the central staircase and has a bathroom attached, comlete with shower!

Our snazzy staircase, winding its way through the center of the house.

Finally, this is a view of the patio area at the back of the house, off of the living room. The photo is taken from our little patch of fenced-in yard, which Scooter will be christening tomorrow! Tomorrow we're heading up to the new house with a few friends from Schweinfurt. The four of us (and Scooter) will be spending the night in the new house (since the photos were taken, the army has delivered some loaner furniture until our furniture arrives) and the next day the four of us (without Scooter) will be taking a bus trip to Munich for Oktoberfest! We won't be returning to Schweinfurt until Friday, so I won't be writing any time before then. But I still have lots to update with the most recent Berlin trip and soon will have tales of Oktoberfest!