My Adventures Where in the world is ….

The other morning I looked out the window as we were getting breakfast ready and saw such a beautiful sunrise.  I took a picture but it didn’t really do it justice.  It is here anyway.

Such a bright a beautiful sunrise.

Here is a view going up our hill. This is near the bottom and you cannot even see the top yet. If you could see closer you could see a traffic light – that is mostly the top of the hill. It is less of a hill from then on for the last block before we turn the corner to go to our office. This doesn’t really show how steep the hill is so I will try again another day to take a better picture.

As you turn the corner at the top of the hill there is this tree that is wrapped in colorful blankets. I wonder if it is wrapped year long or only in winter. We shall see in the spring if the wrapping comes off.

Here is a close up of the “loved” tree so you can see how it is wrapped up.

Firecrackers and Fireworks went all night long and have already (5pm) started again tonight.  I will try to get pictures of some tonight but last night I kept missing them.  Here are some pictures from our window.  You can sort of see that some people have decorated for the holidays.

New Year’s Eve lights!

New Year’s Eve lights!

New Year’s Eve lights!

When you first look at outlets here they are very different and yet similar.

A four outlet section in our bedroom – the first is a phone or internet outlet, not sure what the second is, but the last two our plugs.

Washing clothes is nice in that the washing machine is in our apartment bathroom.  It is small and very compact and a front loader.  I have translated the cycles into English and have it posted on the wall next to the washer so I can easily know what to do but it is different.  As you can see in the one picture the cycles are mostly long – some three hours, some just two – both of those seem too long to wash clothes to me so we have researched more and found the cycles we like.  The water heater for the washer and for the bathroom sink and shower is hanging over the washer.

Here is our cute little washing machine. It has many cycles and holds two bath towels or the equivalent thereof – not much.

This shows one cycle that goes for 3 hours and 30 minutes but you can push the buttons under and lower the time to one hour and five minutes – that is the lowest it will go. We did find there is a cycle that is only 30 minutes which seems more reasonable.

Here is the water heater hanging over our washer. You can also see we have Tide – there is only one variety but it works fine. The other bottles are fabric softener, Vanish, and toilet cleaner.

Doing the wash is easy in that the loads are not not large so then we just hang them on our drying rack and usually within 24 hours they are all dry.  It is nice to have such a nice large drying rack.

One morning I took my camera and took a picture of the building our office is in.

It is on the top floor you can see the circular lobby area which is often well lit.  When the elevator is working we enter in this lobby and look out on the city.

Here is a picture of the building our office is in – it is on the top floor and has a large circular lobby entrance – when it is lit it is very welcoming. The building is on the corner and the bottom floor is an office, the third and forth floors are a day care.

Here is Carl all bundled up outside the entrance to our building. Notice his nice warm hat with ear flaps and his new scarf. The bag holds the dough I made for making rolls for our mission leader luncheon.

In the middle between the two streets of traffic is where the trambaii goes.  There is one going each direction.  Here is a picture of one.  I wish I could a get a picture of the one that is all lit up for Christmas – maybe I will another day.

Trambaii coming just across from our office.

The snow just stays on the ground as it has not been above freezing since we arrived.

It has only snowed three times but not much each time.

The snow just stays around where it is not driven or walked on.