Our apartment

Many of you have been asking about Blake's work, and what he has been doing. Well I have no idea, so you will have to wait until he makes an entry. Don't hold your breath.
In this entry though, I will tell you about the lovely little place that we have rented. We have been here for a little over the week, and already Louis has become a household name. He is our repair man, you see, and over the past week we have become quite close. First we bonded over the broken dishwasher that smelled like a combo of barbeque sauce and smoked salmon because the last tenants had left their dirty dishes to "season" for the past three weeks until we moved in. Once that was fixed we got to know each other better while he hauled out cigarette butts and quarters from the garbage disposal. The following day he returned so that we could both complain about my landlord's lack of cleanliness while he scraped hair and dust off our our air conditioning unit. However, it has been the last two visits that we have really clicked because his utter disbelief at the state of our appliances has led us to a whole new level of friendship. The first of the two visits he attempted to make our freezer actually freeze. He was unsuccessful, but his attempts did lead to the constant flooding of the floor from water leaking out of the underside of our smelly fridge. The second visit was actually a surprise, but that is fine, good friends can drop by whenever, and this time Louis ripped the ice maker from the freezer (leaving us iceless- a sin in the Caribbean) which successfully stopped the flooding, AND allowed the freezer to freeze its contents. When all was said and done with, I will miss Louis, but I do have him on speed dial. In fact, I think he kind of misses me too, because he called last evening just to make sure that all was good.
Appliance nightmare aside though, our place really is great. It is in a nice complex with three pools and three tennis courts, located on South Sound, just across the road from the ocean. Our little apartments has one bedroom, a bathroom and kitchen/living room area. Our favourite part is the paint job. Every room is its own unique Caribbean shade. A disastrous, yet loveable combination of Caribbean azule blue in the living area, Tequila sunrise yellow in the bathroom and a nice palm frond green in the bedroom. It always feels tropical no matter what level of A/C we have cranked, and that is exactly what we wanted in our first new place together. Maybe it is just the newly-wed factor, but we both do love our first home together and we really couldn't wish to be anywhere nicer (but we could wish for new appliances!)