Before and After

     Time has gone by quickly. It doesn't feel like we've been out very long. Oh wait, that's probably because we've been out for less than half the time of our first mission. A year goes by much more quickly than 18 months, especially when it's broken up with visits from family.

     A little while ago we received notice about the couple who will be replacing us in the office, the Hulls from Idaho. Because of some questions they asked, we decided to look around and check out other apartments for them. We didn't intend to move, just see what was available. What we found was a place that is as nice as or better than our other apartment, but it was now or never, so we got permission from President Pratt and told our landlords we'd be moving out. The timing was perfect since our year-long lease was up the end of May.  After having senior couples as tenants since 1999, the landlord was a little surprised and disappointed, but gave a glowing report to our new landlords. Moving definitely was NOT in our plans, but we think the hassle was worth it, even for such a short time.

     The new apartment is in a double condo building (each 10 stories) called Lake Banook Woods. There is a nice lake on the back side of the building--we're on the front side. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so we'll let pictures do most of the explaining for us. Some of the pictures have a warm yellow glow to them. That's not a photographic effect, but as bright as we could get the lights.

BEFORE                                                                                                                     

Kitchen

  AFTER    

Love the cooktop! (There's a sink on the other side of the well-lit
pass-through kitchen)

Master Bedroom

Plus the all the furniture in the other apartment

Bathroom (or washroom as they're called here)

#1

#2

Living Room

Before we moved furniture in

Taken during the move

Laundry room

Coin operated machines in the basement for 20 units

In a small closet in our apartment--no sharing, no hoarding change!

Parking entrance

The Bat Cave (See the post from November 10)

Just an ordinary entrance to . . .

. . . dry underground parking

     It's still a 2-bedroom apartment, only slightly more square footage than the old one, but a little newer, a little nicer. We're a little closer to the mission home and the office. Every day it seems like we find something else to love about it--like stairs when we're feeling energetic in the morning and an elevator when we come home loaded with groceries. And they even provide a grocery cart at the elevator entrance in the parking garage for us to carry all our groceries or other stuff!