Our New Home.

It's been a hectic week trying to move out of our temporary accommodation at James' place (no doubt he'll appear in later blog entries) & trying to get set up in the new apartment. We're on the 4th floor of 9.

The apartment isn't huge, but with 2 bedrooms & a stack of storage space, it has plenty of elbow room. It has a nice little balcony where we have a small outdoor setting & a barbecue (when I assemble it).
From the balcony we have a nice view down the tree lined street & of some of the high rise buildings out to about 6 blocks away. We can also see the Calgary Tower (below).

The Calgary Tower is so similar to many others around the world including the Centre Point in Sydney. I have seen one in Auckland & Vancouver on the way here.

Not really my choice of things to bring from home, but the pink bedding followed us from Oz. Kerri likes the idea of a reminder of home. The main bedroom is quite spacious & has a big walk-in robe attached. The window has the same aspect as the balcony.

Below is the lounge & dining area. We already have a comfy couch & a dining table. The delivery guys had to skull drag the couch up the stairwell because it didn't fit in the lift. They also had to remove our front door to get it into the apartment! Nice couch though.

This is my way of feeling at home. A guy has to have his home entertainment gear. The TV is only a 32" LCD. I didn't see the point of spending more than double the $$ for a 40". After all we only have a smallish living room after all. The DVD player is pretty good. Its basically a surround sound 1200w amp with a 5 DVD carousel. It also has an iPod docking station, 5 surround speakers & a sub woofer fully sick mate! Well I like it anyway & it was reasonably cheap. The only downfall is that it doesn't play region 4 DVD's (Australia is region 4) so the selection of DVD's we bought over will have to be played through the computer.