The Old Apartment

We don’t have internet again yet, much to our chagrin, but we have pretty well moved back in to our apartment now.

By the time our apartment was gutted at the last minute three Fridays ago (time has flown!), we had just enough time to put down the flooring in one room and welcome our guests for our Saturday housewarming party. We felt we couldn’t cancel because we’d already invited them earlier in the week before we knew all the drama that followed. We fixed them some American food including chili and cole slaw, and we had some Mongolian standards such as sausage and cucumbers. It turns out, we probably would have canceled because the elections were the next day (all elections are on Sunday), so many people were either running for something or supporting their candidates. We didn’t have a great turnout and everyone one went home pretty early. At the request of our co-workers, we’ll probably try again for Halloween, but haven’t decided yet.

Now, it looks like we’re all moved back in to our place. Check out the photos.

The view you get in to our apartment is our short hallway (pic wouldn't upload). The first door on the right is the kitchen, which also contains the toilet room. The door to the left is our living room/bedroom. The second door on the right is our laundry room/walk-in closet.

Here we are in the kitchen making some AWESOME fajitas! Leslie made the dough for the tortillas and Nathan cooked them. (Notice the tortilla on the burner. It just worked better that way.) We came up with a packet of fajita mix from one volunteer, another person had a small can of jalapeno peppers, and we found some really decent red and green peppers at the market that were just trucked in from China. The crown jewel of the meal was the homemade sour cream: plain yogurt, a little bit of vinegar, let sit for a few minutes and VIOLA! Who knew it could be so easy?!

This is our new cozy living room. The new flooring they gave us is interesting, to say the least, but it’s new, clean and goes OK with the pinkish-purpleish blankets we have on the beds(s).

Though our walls are pretty bare, the pictures we brought with us, and the pictures, letters and postcards that have been sent have found a new home as decoration on one wall. We had an extra board laying around from what used to be our first, broken bed frame. We bought some rope from the market yesterday and made ourselves a bookshelf.

Take a quick video tour of the mementos wall.

So, there's our "new" place. You're welcome over any time!