Movin' On Up

We have finally left our teeny apartment, and moved into the house!  It was a lot of work, but was well worth it to get out of the apartment.  Being that our shipment did NOT include any furniture, the four bedroom house is quite empty.  The house does however have four half-baths, which I guess equals 2 baths?  Either way, we're more than happy to not have to deal with a "shoilet" anymore.  We did, however, head to our local IKEA to outfit the master bedroom, so we wouldn't have to sleep on the floor.  The company car provided is a Ford Focus Hatchback, and I'm told that it is a step up from Mike's Corvette.  He doesn't agree.  This isn't exactly an SUV, but is actually quite roomy for European standards.  See below as to just how roomy it is, after our IKEA shopping spree.

Since we are now in our new house, we are learning many new things, such as the garbage/recycling system.  As trash has accumulated, it was time to buy trash bags.  I went to the local grocery store, and after about an hour of looking, found none and return home, tail between my legs.  I had to reset myself back at the house to avoid a grocery store meltdown.  I knew that we couldn't just let the garbage just build up, so I went back to the grocery store determined to find the garbage bags!!!  After another hour of searching, I found these endangered garbage bags.  The sweet success of discovering the location of the bags was tainted by the complexity of the garbage bag system:  brown, blue, white, black, each in varying sizes.  I had heard something of the garbage and recyling color system, but I didn't know that I needed a master of science in garbagocity, to figure it out.  So I bought each kind and spent about $25 for 25 garbage & recycling bags.  I'm hoping there's some sort of tax built in to this, otherwise Mike and I are going to start a garbage bag manufacturing company... seems to be a healthy margin.  

Here's our new address, for anyone who wants to write or visit:

Kardinaal Mercierlaan 21

B-3001 Leuven

Belgium

We will not have internet access at our house until Monday, so we will be out of contact until then.  Also, next week, I will post all of our pictures for the month of April on my facebook page, if any of you facebooker's are interested in seeing them.