Home, Sweet NEW Home

We have moved to...the other side of town...

Actually, we are really rather pleased with our new home. In a way it's as if we've earned an upgrade. And, this place is an upgrade:

- A real entryway
- A kitchen with lots of cupboards (at last, storage space)
- A kitchen sink with an additional water filter tapper
- Real wood floor hallways
- A nook large enough for a small office space
- A 2nd bedroom (which is now our gym equipped with bench, weights and Gazelle)
- A real toilet with push-button flushing action and a real 2-part toilet seat
- A real sink that has its own faucet
- A bad ass shower with a high-power shower head
- A better location:
3 minutes from the post office
2-5 minutes from Darkhan's best restaurants
Peter is now 15 minutes from school, not 50 (Cady still gets driven to work in the CHF jeep)
1-10 minutes from Darkhan's best grocery stores
- Out of an apartment owned by the craziest Mongolian we have ever met

There's only one thing we really miss from our old home: the comfy furniture. Well, there's also our wonderful local delguur (store) owner and the great neighborhood kids. They will be missed.

A little history/info.: this apartment was used by Peace Corps programmers this last summer during training. Knowing that our landlord was only going to give us 1 month to vacate, we visited this apartment the night we checked out all the soon-to-be available apartments we knew of in Darkhan. It wasn't even our plan to stop by, but it was recommended to us along the way by a Mongolian friend. What luck. We found out that this apartment was owned by the director of the nicest bank in Darkhan, a man with quite a bit of social clout.

We are both very happy to have a fresh start for year 2 and we are excited to finally be in our new home. After a month of waiting, we are finally moved in and almost ready to take photos to share with all of you.