New Apartment

Our view is better than yours.

Today was move in day for our new, permanent apartment . It is located in Newstead, in what we have found out is a quite the upscale neighborhood. When we give our address to someone, we always seem to get a "oh, Newstead! How trendy". So it must be swank. Cuz, we roll like that!

It is a large complex that is divided into five buildings but every building only has four floors and four units each on each floor. The tenants seem to mostly be owners, middle aged or retired and from the looks of it, wealthy. The units for sale fetch up to 1.6 million for the 3 bedroom model and the garage is full of Jaguars, Mercedes and BMW's and if you knew how expensive cars were here, you know how much a full sized import sedan would go for. Status aside, it is nice to see as it means that our neighbors won't have a party that lasts until five am and chuck bottles from their balconies every weekend like in our last, sleazy, temporary unit.

The unit is a large two bedroom apartment with pantries, laundry room, storage and large bathrooms. It is almost as big as our place in San Clemente and thankfully just as quiet. However the best feature would have to be the view. We have a 180 degree view of the Brisbane River and River walk which sits about 25 yards away, across the river is scenic Bulimba and the hook that leads to further down river. Check the view from the balcony...

It will be like camping for the next two weeks until our furniture arrives. We are sleeping on an air mattress and our living room consists of two beach chairs.

Works for me...