Pics of our Place... Finally!

Okay, so this is a little late... With all the crazy travel I've had, it took a while to get our flat looking presentable enough that I was willing to take pictures.  It's never going to be perfect, but it's good enough!  :)  So, without further ado, I present to you our little love nest:

We really like the living room - it's got a lot of space, plus, we can watch the laser light show every night at 8:00pm.  :)

Our entry way

This is an interesting one... we use it as our pantry/storage, but this is actually the "maid's quarters".  The door to the back is the "maid's bathroom", but we keep Brian's bike in there.  So far, we have decided that having storage is more important than having a live-in maid!  :)

The Kitchen

The Hallway

Our tiny little office

Spare Bathroom

Guest "bedroom" - if you can call it that... it's tiny too!  :)

Our bedroom... with an awesome closet!  :)

Another view of our bedroom - ask Brian how much he loves all these pillows!!  ;)

View from our bedroom down the hall

Our bathroom

 

Dining Room

Overall, we really love our place.  It's about 1000 sq. feet, which is a huge luxury in Hong Kong.  I won't post what our rent is exactly, but I'll just say that for about a third of the size our our house in Portland, we pay more than three times for our rent.  Actually, work helps with that, so don't feel too sorry for us.  ;)  This town is pretty ridiculously expensive, but, we're finding our hole-in-the-wall places that don't cater to expats, which cuts the price down to about a quarter of what some of the other, more western places, cost.  We did figure out one to avoid... I got food poisoning at a Vietnamese noodle place a few weeks ago.  I'll take that meat cooked WELL DONE the next time, thank you very much.  :)

Sometime in the near future, I'd love to give you a glimpse into what our daily routine is like... we don't have cars here.  Instead, our commute consists of walking to the world's longest escalator, going down the escalator, taking the public train, and arriving at work about 45 minutes later.  A longer commute than I had planned on for an island only 7 miles long, but that's what it is. 

Hope you all have a nice weekend!!

And... if you missed it, we just booked a trip home!!  :)  We can't wait to see all of our friends and family.  Tentative plan is as follows:
June 30th-July 1st - Portland
July 2nd to July 8th - Ohio
July 9th to July 13th - Alabama
July 14th-July 20th - New Orleans/Austin/Grand Canyon/Moab/Portland - AKA KPO's 1st cross-country road trip!  :)
July 20th-July 22nd - Portland

Mark your calendars!  :) :) :)