Nosso Apartamento ( Our apartment, I think)

This isn't our apartment building. Sorry for the misleading title. It is another picture I took from Alan's office that I thought was a little better than the one below. Fortaleza had a few more high rises than I expected.

I took this picture from the window in the mission office. Our apartment is probably in the picture somewhere , but I couldn't tell you where. The building we live in is only 10 stories high, so it is would be pretty tough to see.This picture was taken at night and it's a little tough to tell what it is. Sorry. It is a big window thing in the laundry room. The reason I call it a window thing is that there is no glass in it, just these slat type things. We are amazed that birds or bats or bugs don't fly right in, but they don't. Knock on wood!
The laundry room is nice and big. The water heater that leaked all over the second night we were there is located in the opposite corner. It didn't turn into that big of a disaster because they have tile floors and they have a drain in the floor in this room too. I just pushed it all over to the drain and washed the floor at the same time.

This is the bathroom off our bedroom. You can't see the shower/tub. It is nice, but the way it is arranged I think it would be beast to clean, so we use another shower most of the time. I'm lazy, I know, but mildew grows pretty fast here and I just didn't want to fight it. This is our bedroom. We thought we would have a hard time without our king size, but it hasn't been bad at all. The mattress is comfy and the pillows are great. All the bedding was new, so that was nice.
This is the living room. It is nice. The decorations aren't exactly what I would choose, but it is starting to feel like home. I had to put a few of the flower arrangements in a closet. There were just too many. I left out the most normal ones, at least in my opinion. There is a ton of lovely closet space and storage in this apartment. It's almost a shame because we don't have anything to put in it and I doubt the 4 boxes of stuff we had shipped is going to take up much room. By the way, had I known that quite a few of the items they listed that were supposed to be in the apartment weren't really here, I would have sent more stuff. Take measuring cups, for instance. They were on the list, but not here. Let's just say I've had a few cooking adventures. Alan might call them disasters, but I'm going with adventures.

Dad is checking out the refrigerator. They left us some basics which was nice. We still haven't really got it stocked though. It is hard to figure out what to buy. I don't know what a lot of the stuff in the store really is and a lot of things I'm accustomed to cooking with they don't have. We have been surprised at the cost of things. We thought food would be less expensive than it is.

I made a bouquet out of the beautiful roses they gave us when we arrived. It lasted about 5 days and then I had to throw it out, but we enjoyed it. There were two sets of candlesticks in the house, but no candles. Looking at this picture reminds me I was going to try to find some to buy. Too bad Mini Bazaar isn't a little closer.