My apartment

Our apartment is fantastic.  I'll let the pictures show for themselves.....

Outside

 Kitchen

 Living room

 Bedroom

 Bathroom (ps-no more bucket showering for these girls ;))

Some funny stories related to our apartment.....

Living without a door knob.

On last Monday night, we got locked out of our apartment.  Our door knob was pretty sketchy to begin with; it was rusted & very loose in the door.  Either way, there were times you’d lock the door & just jiggling it would open it up.  It was also proven on Monday night that there were times you wouldn’t lock the door & would get locked out.  After jiggling the door knob around for maybe 15 minutes, we decided to go straight to Elfren for help.  Billy came over to try & help too (his 3 year old son Adriel was already hanging from the door knob in an effort to help us get it to open).  Long story short, Elfren & Rocky (the school security guard) got straight to business & ‘broke’ into the house.  

Adriel climbed through the small opening & was inside for maybe 5 minutes before actually unlocking the door (he was mostly just kicking the door while inside).  That same night, it was found that the door knob is unfixable and was therefore removed from our door so it couldn’t lock us out again.  We agreed we’d be okay for the night without a door knob.  We locked the door for the night & covered the hole with a post-it (to keep bugs & wandering eyes out).

We’ve kindly asked for a new door knob each day, as there is no way for us to lock our door when we leave, but to no avail.  We thought people were just forgetting about our request, but on Thursday we got the real news—apparently there are no door knobs on Ebeye.  This explains a lot!  We’ll see how this situation advances in the next few days.  But until it’s fixed, we’ll just continue to hide our valuables wherever we see fit when we leave the house. J

Update:  On Monday morning, our principal came with a new door knob!  Problem solved.  Luckily, in the making of these progressions, nothing was stolen from our apartment. Success!

War against the rodents.

We’ve boobietrapped our house this past week.  We set out traps for all sorts of rodents that we’ve seen evidence of them living here including cockroaches, ants, mice & rats—we’re not messing around here.  Luckily, we only saw a couple of cockroaches prior to setting the traps and since we haven’t seen anything.  All we’ve gotten so far is one rat trap that had been set off & moved from its spot—thank God there was no rat in it.  Although I’m totally for this war against the rodents, I definitely don’t want to have to deal with any of them directly if they’re caught.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Game time