Our New Home

Hello friends!

We got our act together this weekend and took pictures of our new "flat". We have put a fair amount of work into it to achieve this result (it is still a work in progress of course). Really, we know we are quite fortunate to have found this place and it increasingly feels like home.


Below are pictures of the main living area: the dining room (which looks like a table that would have existed in the times of the Visigoths, it's amazing) and the living room. We rearranged paintings, added some Ikea touches, covered the couch, added plants, lighting, pillows, coffee table, rug, and got rid of a bunch of furniture to streamline it.

In the picture above, far left you'll see an antique sewing machine. It's so cool!! We use it to house all of our technological stuff, quite the irony :)

Below are Antonio and Francisco's room (they have a trundle) and then Alejandra's room.

Below is the master bedroom.

And the view from our apartment (fifth floor) is here. Perhaps you can make out from the second picture a group of trees in the background -that is the park. Alongside the park is the church, and next to the church is the metro.

Here is the second bathroom and the hallways. The apartment is in an L shape, which is great because the noise from the livingroom is filtered out by the time you reach the kids' rooms.

Finally, we have the kitchen. It's quite spacious and it has a balcony where we can store some stuff and hang clothes (at the risk of them falling onto the drying rack of our neighbors below).

So that's pretty much it. We look forward to showing ya'll some of the surrounding areas in future posts.

As for today, November 13, Martha had a great birthday. We had lunch with a friend of the family and someone who we now consider our aunt because she has taken good care of us since we arrived in Madrid. In the afternoon we went to the Prado Museum and then visited with friends back in the apartment at night. Cheers to everyone!