Our Apartment

Silas is in Potty Training this week so we've pretty much been homebodies.  Except for Silas cutting himself with a paring knife (fortunately, every Mormon congregation has a doctor who speaks english) and a couple of nice bike rides, not a whole lot has happened.  So, unable to remain silent even when there is nothing much to say, I will bore you with details about our apartment.

We are on the 2nd floor of a four floor building with four apartments.  It was probably built sometime in the early 1930's.  The construction is masonry.  Here is the floor plan:

Pretty standard apartment.  There are photos of each of the rooms here.  Couple of interesting things....

You take your shoes off before entering a Czech's house or apartment.  There are little cabinets in the hallway outside the door where we keep our shoes.  Typically, folks will have slippers for themselves and guests to wear.

The toilet room holds just the toilet and the bathroom has the bathtub and sinks.  This is really kind of handy when someone is putting on makeup and someone else really needs to go.

Tile floors in hallways and kitchen are awfully nice.

We don't have access to the locked room so Caleb lives in the living room.

The appliances (oven, fridge, dishwasher) are all small by American standards.  They are set up for smaller families.

We also have a small storage area in the cellar where we keep our bikes.  Not ideal because of the dampness, but there's not a lot of space up here. 

We'll try to do something fun tomorrow to have something interesting to say.

Peter