First Day Home

The first day home was an exciting day for us. The previous tenants left a lot of things in the house. Some things we purchased from them, but some things they just left here. This was very helpful.

Unpacking the Trunk
As soon as we arrived, we started taking everything out of the trunk and placing it between the TV and the couch that we purchased from the previous tenants.

The pile began to grow. How did we pack so much in that small trunk?

Hey, our sombrero found a buddy to hang out with, or rather to hang on the wall with. No wonder it was determined as us to make it to Mexico. It all makes sense now!

We were so tired of seeing clutter and stuff. Our life in Washington for the past couple of months was just going through stuff, selling stuff, throwing away stuff. Now we were facing a new situation - throwing away some of the previous tenants stuff, and putting away our stuff. Stuff, stuff, stuff....

Backyard
We'll give you a whirlwind tour of the house.

This is definitely not an American backyard. We have a small strip of grass surrounded by a tall brick wall characteristic of Mexico homes. The backyard gets a lot of sun and is a peaceful place to just mellow out. I want to put a hammock up one of these days.

Around the corner in the yard we have a place for the washer and dryer as well as some storage for outside stuff.

Kitchen
Near the backyard is the kitchen.

There are a couple of sliding glass doors that we keep open nearly all the time. If there is sun, these doors stay open. It creates an atmosphere as if you are half outside and half inside.

There are no heaters installed in the entire house. There are also no air conditioning units. You don't need either one for most the year! The weather remains mild enough. This also helps with the electricity bill. There are also very few bugs so there are no screens on the sliding glass doors.

Let's see what is upstairs...

Here is a picture of the bedroom. We have one whole wall of closet space. This was a big change for us and we don't even know what to do with it all...

And below you can see a part of the spare bedroom.

Ok, back to more happenings on the first day back...

Store Run
We realized that we had no groceries, so we decided to walk a few blocks and go to the store.

Here we are at the Bodega Aurrera.

We had to purchase unusual things that you don't normally purchase. Like a plastic container for spoons, forks, and knives.

Notice the pigs head crowning this attractive meat display?

Time to get back home. The weather was very unusual.

We stopped at a local taco place to pick up some quick, cheap dinner to go. We can get enough tacos for both of us for about $6.00.

After that we continued home with our tacos and groceries.

Celebrations
We arrived in our new home exactly on the date of our wedding anniversary.

We didn't feel like going anywhere. We didn't feel like eating out. We just felt like finally being "home". We ate our tacos and celebrated with a tiny Mexican cake. It felt right. It was perfect.