Home Sweet Home!

The few days leading up to the move were so bittersweet. As excited as I was to move in with Lauren and start a new adventure, it was really hard to leave Emma and Toby. As much as Emma smiled through it and joked about it, I think she was really sad that I was leaving, and it made the last few days together difficult. We were just starting to really bond and actually hangout together. Toby was gone for my last week living there, visiting his dad, so Emma and I had a lot of bonding time. Including all of our serious (and not so serious) life discussions, movie nights, and wine nights! Coming home from work and her asking if I wanted to practice my driving (in the torrential downpour) so that she could go get some more drinks, and we could watch girly movies, probably ended up being my favorite night :) 

But that final goodbye after her and Toby dropped me off at my new apartment with my last load of stuff was heart-wrenching. I am definitely going to miss them! But my apartment is right across the street from where Emma works, so hopefully she takes me up on my offer to come over and hangout on her lunch breaks :)

It didn’t take long though for Lauren and I to get pretty excited about our new place!! Once our stuff was in the door, we spent the first evening running around taking photos of everything, trying to figure out what all of the light switches and knobs on the walls do, and oohing and awing over the fact that my bathtub tap is like a waterfall!!! And yes, I got the master bedroom.... and I didn't even have to put up a fight! Lauren's room has the extra pullout bed, and she actually has people coming to visit *cough* ;) so she volunteered to take that room. Winning!!

Lauren admiring my giant bathtub! :)

Yep! Those would be bi-folding doors and windows all the way across my bedroom and bathroom.

"where does the water come out?"..... "uhh WHAT?!?!"

The rest of my bathroom :)

And my KING SIZE bed!!

Oh, you know, just my own private balcony, that looks out onto the marina :)

Just in case you were interested in the view from my balcony ;)

And my walk-in closet.

Lauren's room!

Or should I say, Lauren's miniature apartment?

This is our living room! Yep, that is another full wall of bi-folding doors that opens up onto our main balcony.

And our fancy kitchen!

 Our big balcony, with a good table for entertaining, and our BBQ :)

We already knew that we weren’t going to be prepared to cook on the first night, so we were set to order our Thai takeout for our first meal in our new place :) after we cheersed to our new adventures with our ciders out on our awesome balcony of course! 

 And our first round of friends from work that came over to check it out and help us break in the new spot!

Can't complain about getting up at 5:30am when I roll over in my king size bed and see this outside my window :)