House Pictures

I know I whined and moaned about the internet at the hotel being awful and I couldn't upload pictures...but I might have been a little wrong. I was getting horrible service the whole day, it kept coming in and out and I just assumed that was normal. I woke up this morning and was checking my mail and everything was working great. I decided to attempt to upload pictures and see what happened and it was successful, so pictures are now available!

And just a little story, a testament if you will to the crazy Italian drivers. We went today to buy a car for Taylor at the local used car dealer that was recommended to us. We were test driving a car (well Taylor was driving) and the guy was in the front seat. We were out on a country road and Taylor is going about 10-15 km over the speed limit. The guy goes "it's okay, you can speed here". So Taylor drives about 20 km over the speed limit and the guy goes, "no, no, go on and speed, it's okay, we're in Italy!". Then we get behind a truck and the guy says, "oh, go on and pass him" (this is a 2 lane road, btw) Taylor says, "well I can't see anything around this truck." The guy says, "nah, that's okay, just pass!" (Taylor is commenting as I'm writing this that he did finally see around the truck before he passed!!) And luckily, we all survived our test drive trips! The dealer was also very amused about the fact that the Jack Daniel's distilery is in a dry county. He thought we were kidding him...he got a real kick out of that!!

Aaand we bought a car...well almost. In true, slow Italian fashion we will probably have it tomorrow, but we decided upon a 96 BMW 316i. It's a nice little 2 door, navy blue, coupe. So for those of you coming to visit...we have lots of room in our house...but small little cars to drive you around in (we both will have 2 doors), but once you get here and see these tiny roads, the decision makes perfect sense.

Now onto the house...voilaaaaaa...here it is!!!

Hahaha...I forgot to mention it was bright yellow with John Deere green shutters on it!! It is a row house and we have both the upstairs and downstairs of the picture you're looking at. The doors you see downstairs open into our living room. And the green you see upstairs (but can't figure out what it is) are doors that open from our master bedroom onto the balcony right there.

This is a picture of the area...

This is one of the spare bedrooms. You will notice, and I mentioned previously, but all the windows and doors have shutters that you open...so the house is closed up in the pictures, but it will all be open!

This is one of the upstairs bathrooms (Taylor's) But it contains the only shower (on the left...it's tiny...but they all are here!) The white towel rack looking thing is the radiator, but it's designed so you can warm your towels on it as well. And if you notice the cream button, type round thing above the toilet is how you flush it! There are huge buttons you push here...I found it very amusing!

This is the master bedroom with the doors that open out onto the balcony.

This is my bathroom upstairs. You can see part of the lovely wardrobe that is sitting in it right now! And also the bidet...those things seem quite intimidating. All the bathrooms have them here, but I've yet to attempt one.

This is the other side of my bathroom...see so much room! I've never had a bathroom this big, and I probably won't for a long, long time!!

Here is the kitchen with the lovely yellow cabinets. But they are like gold over here...any kind of cabinet is beautiful in my eyes at this point!! Our table will go where I am standing to take this picture...you will see in the picture below.

Now I'm standing in the kitchen and this is the eating area. Our living room is just off to the right. If you notice at the left, upper corner, that is the air conditioner. They have a few of them through out the house. I mentioned previously that there is no central heat/ac as we know it in the US, but they aren't' window units either. They are usually controlled by a remote. And heat is obviously through radiators.

This is standing in our front/only yard looking into the living room through our doors...and the patio out there. The kitchen/eating area is just off to the right in this picture. (Just to try to orient you)

I'm standing in the eating area of the kitchen taking the picture and this is the living room. Taylor is walking in our front door.

This is the laundry room off the basement downstairs.

This is the basement...Taylor's "MAN CAVE!!!!"

This is the storage room located in the basement...

This is the garage located right off the storage room. I'm standing at the end where the garage door opens and you can see through the doorway into the storage room as well.

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So...maybe this has made a little sense? I tried to explain it so you can get a visual image, but I know it's tough! Anyway, we're real excited and we move in on November 3rd! And more good news, we got emails today that our unaccompanied baggage has arrived. Wooo hooo that means we finally have some winter clothes here! Now we're waiting on our household goods and my car!

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Alright, we're off to watch some Friday Night Lights...well not really off because we're watching it on my computer. We have very limited resources in the hotel room over here! And we're heading to Venice in the morning (after we get the car registered and taken care of...) so hopefully morning! I'll update about that later!!

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Night!