Hello all! We moved into our apartment this past Tuesday! Never have I ever seen so many boxes in my life. All the furniture showed up in boxes and we had to put together everything. A co-worker and myself went to IKEA and furnished 5 apartments! You could imagine the amount of cardboard we recycled! I think we filled up Tesco's recycle bin numerous times between all 5 of the apartments. Never in a million years would I have thought that it would have taken as much mental and physical strength as it did. We were exhausted by the time that we got everything handled. But I do say that our apartment looks really good! I was talking to someone the other day and I have decided that I would have to have 4 different houses to satisfy all of my decorating tastes.
1. Classic/Traditional with antiques- most likely my all around favorite and will probably be the house that we buy
2. Comfortable/Clean Modern
3. Elegant but Rustic- lake or mountain cabin
4. Beachy with bright and bold colors, seashells
So, as Jenny pointed out, I can satisfy my Modern urge now and not worry about being stuck with it! Now I just have to work on the other three!
Wehave found the local grocery and we were able to cook for a couple of nights! Spaghetti was first, then mexican and now we are stocked for the rest of the week. Hopefully we will pick up some really good recipes to try out of people when they visit. It is so nice to be out of the hotel and have a little bit of a routine now that we are in the apartment.
Well, a little bit about English living. First of all, we have a much smaller frig/freezer space than back in the US, especially freezer space! We have three tiny ice trays that we are filling up constantly! The milk jug are a lot smaller, I think closer to .5 gallon. If any of you know how much Ken drinks milk, that is just not going to cut it. So I bet we will be in the Tesco buying milk 2-3 times a week. Take your fridge and maybe 1/3 it and that is about how big we have. It is a nice frig, but not very roomy. The wahser and dryer is a washer/dryer combo. It washes, dryes, or wash/dry combo. It can hold 3 towels or two sheets or maybe a couple pairs of pants and three shirts or so and maybe some undies. Needless to say we do laundry a lot!!! The heating system is actually an underfloor heating. Hot water runs under the floor and heats each room. This is really common in newer construction here. Every room has a different thermostat. It is really nice to wake up and the bathroom tiles and kitchen tiles are warm. There is no air conditioning-we are hoping for a mild summer. Over all we are very comfortable and can't wait to explore the little towns near us!
We went to the grocery today and the food at the grocery has a very short shelf life! I am pretty sure most of them have no preservatives. So hoping that a loaf of bread will last even 5 days is a far stretch. We were hoping to find some smoked sausage, but it looks like we will have to go on the search. We are craving red beans and rice, it will have to wait. They have just about everything though. It just takes a little looking around to find what you need. No real short trips to pick up something until we get used to the new packaging. They aren't real into convienence foods, like shredded cheese. We will just have to adapt and grate it ourselves. Nothing wrong with a little elbow grease! I was looking for shredded mozzarella today and had to settle for the real thing- buffalo mozzarella...DARN!! For those who don't know me and buffalo mozzarella, I love it!!! It is the total opposite in the US, you can't find a great variety of mozz except the block or shredded kind, but here I had to choose between 6-7 kinds of buffalo mozz. Little things like that I really love to figure out.
Well, we will hopefully get internet by next week. We will update shortly! Love yall!
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