And now finally…a tour of the new house.  Some day I’ll come up with a name for the place…

 

This is the view from the street.  It’s a little dusty out front because they’re working on the main road near our house and it’s detouring all the trafic past us.  But we’re not complaining…the new road will be amazing (the old road was…well, I can’t even explain really…), and the bus the guys take to school now passes directly in front of the house.

From inside the gate…the picture on the left is the front door and on the right, the side of the house.  The window on the second story in the front is my bedroom. 

The living and dining rooms.  The door behind David is the front door and just on the edge of the picture to the left is the door to Ruddy and Sandro’s room. 

This is the kitchen.  The new appliances are great.  I’m loving having the microwave…my first one in nearly four years.  By the way…this kitchen is bigger than my living room when I lived in Saskatoon.  It’s bigger than my house in El Torno (where I was living before here).

This is back in the dining room area, looking the other direction.  Of the three doors in the middle of the picture, the door to the left is to the kitchen…the door in the middle is our office/gymnasium =) soon to be another bedroom, and the small door to the right is to a small bathroom (I’ll tell you a funny story about that some other day).  Right in the middle is our laundry room…  Houses here really aren’t built with a laundry room in mind, so the only place for the washing maching is in the dining room.  =)  We’re guys…we don’t care.  We’re just happy we have a washing machine.

This is the common room at the top of the stairs, which we’ve turned into a computer room.  Thanks to the Saskatoon Christian school, we are the proud owners of six great laptops.  Since all the guys are studying computers right now, they’ve been a real blessing to us.  Not to mention the late night pinball competitions…

This is the first of the bedrooms upstairs.  David, Jesus and Franz currently live here.  The rooms are huge with two big windows overlooking….well, our neighbors.

This is the other bedroom upstairs.  Currently it houses Jose Carlos and Juan (and hopefully soon, Julio).  Enjoy the plant…Jose Carlos desperatly wanted it, but hasn’t watered it since he got it.  So in the next picture…I’m sure it’ll be dead.

These are pictures of my bedroom/kitchen/house.  It was a bit of a creative endeavor to cram all my junk into one room…but I managed (more or less).  I like it…it’s big enough to have my couch and a mini-fridge (ie living room and kitchen)…and it’s relaxing.  AND I have my own bathroom, which is also huge.  It’s the size of my kitchen back home in S’toon.  AND it has a bathtub which seems to be a big deal to some of the missionary ladies I know (wow, the bitterness and jealousy…), although I’ll probably never use it.   

And finally the upstairs deck.  This is probably my favourite part of the house.  It’s great!  We have our Bible studies/meetings here, and just generally hang out.  Another day I’ll post some pictures of planting the plants in the planter around the railing.  It was…interesting…

Anyhow…there you go.  This is where we live.  Hope you enjoyed the tour.  It’s a lot better in person, so feel free to come experience it!  =)