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Wow. I knew that Google had been working on Street View for their maps lately, but didn't realize it had finally extended to our area! It's a little bit creepy, but it's so useful for finding one's destination. My only disappointment was that my car wasn't parked on the street when they took photos of our old place. It would have been immortalized!

Anyway, I know I have been bad about posting photos of the new place, so I'm starting off with one straight from the amazing online map system. We now live in a condo complex of about 100 units. Our biggest fear would be that we would move in and realize we were in the ghetto, but actually it's been almost always completely quiet. I say almost because while I was out on Monday, Ric said our quiet (almost non-existent in my consciousness) neighbors had a massive argument and were screaming at each other and knocking over furniture. Whoah! But, after being here for three months, that instance was certainly out of the norm.

We have loved the location of our particular unit, because it's right next to the gate and right next to the trash. We don't have to drive through the complex and go over speed bumps to get to our carports, and our carports have direct access to our condo. The trash bin is right across from our carports too, so it doesn't seem like a very big hassle to take out the trash. In fact, it's actually a lot easier because I don't have to walk through Little Vietnam to put out the trash for pickup. Speaking of which, here's a great photo from our moving day:

That's another great thing about living in a condo - no yard work! While I enjoyed having a yard and took pride in working on it, it's actually nice to have my time free so that I can focus on the inside of our new place.

Another thing I like is that our condo is situated in such a way that we only have a window facing the north in our master bedroom. This means it's always cool in there, no matter what time of day. And so we can sleep or nap comfortably for the first time since we got married, since we're not miserable because of the heat like we were in our old apartment.

So that's an intro to where we live. I'll have to put together a slideshow in the future to show the progress we have been making inside. It's a battle of us vs. yellow, and we're finally winning!