It was weird seeing it so empty. Max instantly knew where we were going and was so excited and happy when we started walking down the hallway to the apartment. I felt a little bad for him - he's in a new foreign environment at the house and he was so happy to be back to "home" - the only place he's lived.
While it's nice being in our house, I will miss some things about apartment living - the convenience of not having responsibility to maintain anything, no yard to take care of, the pool that was steps away, small space = less space to clean, don't have to worry about what day is trash day, I felt safe knowing that it was a gated building, could open the windows without worrying about safety (we were on the third floor), our dishwasher was awesome and we never pre-rinsed our dishes, watching the pool furniture get blown into the pool during big storms, hearing/watching the fireworks go off at the ballpark a couple blocks away, the park next door along with all the retail stores we could walk to, the fun community activities like bunco night (I won some money off rent!), I loved the big granite island with the pendant lighting.
What I won't miss - stressing about being too loud for the people below us (the lady complained twice when we had the kids over...I was the bigger person and took her cupcakes and explained that you can't keep a 4 year old from jumping and running), having it take 5 minutes to drive through the parking garage, get out of the car, and walk through the halls to our door, feeling like we couldn't invite people over because it was a small space, having our storage unit on a different floor so not being able to verify daily that we hadn't had our storage unit broken into again, having to meet pizza delivery guys at the entrance to the building because they didn't want to mess with trying to find our apartment, having to go to a mail room to get my mail, hearing my laundry going because the washer/dryer was just behind some doors in the dining room, the CRAZY loud fire alarms going off in the winter when pipes freeze and burst or during regular tests, the crappy carpet, the flat electric cook top, a fridge w/o water and ice in the door.
The brand new fireplace by the pool (of course they don't finish it until we move out)
We loved sitting in the couches and chairs in the background.
The pool
Our apartment is the middle set of windows, 3rd floor up.
Little Max in a big open space.
Woo hoo!!!!! Momma let me hold her keys!
The front of the building
The side of the building
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