Our New Home

So we moved into our new place last week. I absolutely love it. It is a small neighborhood of beach houses. The neighborhood consists of mostly one large family and us. They have welcomed us and given us great advice for living in this neighborhood, concerning safety and conserving electricity and water.

It is a pinkish-peachish color house right on the beach. Literally, there is sand all the way around the house and straight out into the ocean. We have a little gazebo in front of the house that overlooks the ocean, where I'm sitting right now, typing. There seems to be a breeze here all the time. I am most appreciative of the concrete and dry walls with caulking and tile floors. This means there are no bugs! At least in the house there are none. We are finished camping out in the jungle. Though I enjoyed parts of it, I am happy to not see bugs again for a while. Except geckos - they can hang out as long as they want.

We have a washing machine at this house. So Val attempted laundry yesterday. We have lines by the house to air dry our clothes. Val discovered that the washing machine filled water slower than a faucet drip in winter. So she continued to fill jugs of water from the kitchen to pour into the washing machine. Once it was full of water, it seemed to run smoothly. Then when it hit the rinse cycle, she had to fill it up all over again. When the clothes were finally done washing, she hung the clothes on the line. Evidently those clothes pins are very important. She said she spent the entire day picking clothes up out of the sand and putting them back on the line or filling up jugs of water to keep the washing machine going. I was at work so I did not get to witness all this, but I am sure that it was pretty comical. I think at some point she gave up, because when I got home and walked into the bedroom, there were underwear and shorts and shirts hanging all over the room with fans on them. J

I think we'll have to attempt it again with only one load in a day. Clothes pins will help too. I will have to say that my clothes do smell like ocean breeze, and it's not from the detergent.

We've tried out several other locations, be it apartments, cabanas, studios, or backpack shacks. Though each one had its own charm or appeal, I believe we have found our new home here in Sandy Bay in this quiet little neighborhood. We have an extra bedroom so anyone who wants a nice simple island vacation, is welcome to come stay with us.  We would love to share our island with you!