New Place

By Scott:

After a long afternoon and evening of cleaning and unpacking we are all moved in to our new place. After making due in a small apartment for a year in Fort Worth and then an even smaller apartment at the college this place feels like a castle.

The master bedroom is on the second floor at the top of the stairs and has a a full bath attached. It is almost as big as our college apartment was. Across a small walkway is a guest room that overlooks the living room downstairs. You enter the condo through the living room then into a dining area before you get to the kitchen. As for that kitchen it is huge and Katie is very excited about the opportunity to ply her cooking magic in a full kitchen. There is even a second guestroom behind the kitchen and down stairs bathroom that we will use for storage or for long term guests. We have more space than we know what to do with for the first time in our marriage. Katie will post pictures and give virtual tour soon.

Outside a huge storm is blowing through. I don't even want to think about what must be happening back at the college apartment with the leak. We left out the coolers and sheets so hopefully tomorrow we wont find too much of a mess. We did leave our bikes at the apartment and intend to tag team bike them over here tomorrow, Katie in the morning when we have to go open the college up for a seminar class meeting early and me in the afternoon when Katie has a session with her students. Meanwhile no leak or flood issues here.

Our new physical address is either 2 Eggret Walk Red Bay Grand Cayman (which is the address on our lease) or 24 Princess Way, Red Bay, Grand Cayman according to our electric bill. Physical addresses are subject to lots of interpretations down here. No postage comes to your physical address so each company just sort of operates on its own with no consistency. Our mail will still be the Savannah post office that we gave out since its still closer to go there than it is to go to the airport post office which is the next closest. So just keep using the Grand Cayman KY 1-1500, Cayman Islands mailing address. We never did get a box from my mother but have gotten letters so those at least get to us in good shape.

The freedom of having a car and now our own place away from the college is really exhilarating. I think that if we had gotten a car when we first got here we might not have been so anxious to move away from the college but the living there and feeling trapped there because we had no vehicle was overwhelming. The other big thing surprisingly was not having a refrigerator or microwave in the apartment. Every meal we had to walk into the college and get things or if we wanted to watch a movie with popcorn walk in to pop it. That gets old quick and pushed us to move out much sooner as we had really planned to stay rent free in the apartment until December.