Where we live.

I always like to be able to visualize in my head where someone is when I talk to them. Like if one of my siblings moves, I like it better once I’ve been to their house so I can place them in it. Anyway. So here are some pictures of where we live. (But only nice pictures, because if you saw the pictures of all the boring, blah stuff, how fun would that be?)

So these are pictures of the awesome colors in our house. Andrea, tell me you wouldn’t kill for these oranges and (kinda) limes. :) We have 3 bedrooms, a nice-sized front room and a small kitchen. Oh yeah, and there are two bathrooms, but one of them we turned the shower into a closet because we’d rather have the space than the extra shower. And really, inside our house there’s not a whole lot more to see. When we were packing to come here, decorations somehow didn’t make the cut of most importance. And we have enough furniture to get by, but not any more than that. That is okay. I will definitely, however, get some pictures printed and hang them up somehow.

Okay, so on to the more fun stuff, this is a little wood area that’s to the left of our house just a little ways. The day of the Fasnacht parade we came back to explore it a little.

And this is our favorite part of our apartment. Since our apartment is the last on the long street of many many apartments (making our walk to the bus stop very far), our big front room windows and deck look out on this farm. Behind it you can see (on a clear day, which has been unfortunately all too rare) a small little bit of the Alps.

See? This is closer than how we see it, because I zoomed in, but very lovely either way.

Incidentally, this farm is where we get our milk from. We walk down the road a short bit, bringing our own container of course, to this handy-dandy automatic milk dispenser. You open that little door thingee you see on the left, put your container on the shelf, put your coins in, and push the start button. The freshest milk a person could ask for. For cheaper than at the store too. 1 frank for 1 liter. So now one of Jethro’s chores sometimes is to go milk the cow. :)

And these are the cows that give us our milk. Hi cows – thanks for the milk! (Moooo-you’re welcome!)

More lovely pictures. A pretty pretty sunrise one morning.

And here are just a couple pictures of Bern from the bus station place. I like this dude’s sweet beard in this one.

Like I said, I just show the pretty pictures. All the many many boring, gray cement apartment buildings next to us on the other side of our house just aren’t as fun as the lovely mountain pictures. So you can just pretend in your mind’s eye that we are surrounded only by pure Swiss loveliness.