Life in the Land Northward

We moved!  The night before we flew to Florida for our trip to the Keys, we packed up a U-Haul and brought all 12 of our possessions to the Great Salt Lake City!  (Until 1868, that was the city's official name.)  

All packed up!

Caitlin was not a fan of the "happy face spider" on our truck, but U-Haul was less than sympathetic towards our request so switch.

We forgot about my bike until the very end, so we had to get a little creative with our packing methods.

Once we made it to our new apartment complex, we stacked our boxes in the living room, laid our mattress on the floor, and fell asleep in exhaustion!  After a week of sunny rejuvenation, we came back to Salt Lake and began the unpacking process.  Another week later, we finally have everything all set up!

This is our new apartment, right where we wanted it on the 2nd floor (optimal insects to stairs ratio)!

This is the apartment's layout.  Hopefully this helps you orient yourself while you look at the pictures!

The apartment has fancy electronic keys!  If we ever lose our key, then we can have it deactivated immediately.  Unfortunately, it just makes it really expensive to replace a lost key.

Our living room.

Our patio door and new TV stand.

Our new bookcase in front of the bar.

The bookcase is perfect for displaying our fun wood animals from our trips together!

Our kitchen.

Our new dining set!  It was a beast to assemble.

The best part of our apartment is just behind those doors: a full-size washer and dryer!

The bathroom with our awesome sonicare toothbrushes.

Our tub/shower is one of the extra-wide jacuzzi tubs.  It is great for when you want to twirl around with your arms fully outstretched while showering; however, it is a little unfortunate when you realize that half of your bathroom is dedicated to your tub.

The toilet water is blue.  Pretty awesome.

And last, here is our bedroom.  Having just moved from a remodeled state penitentiary (not really, but Wymount's cinderblock walls did make it feel that way at times), you can see that we do not yet have many decorations.  Let us assure you, non-Rubbermaid end tables are top on our list.

So that is everything inside our new apartment, but what about outside.

Basketball court!

We were caught off guard a little bit by the hidden fees when signing our lease, but overall we are really excited about our new home!