1 week 'till Cuenca

We are one week away from our move to Cuenca.  Our landlady was sad, but understood our need to move on.  She asked us if we knew any other Americans that want to rent her house.  

This last week has been interesting as three days of it have been powerless.  That makes working on the computer, reading our Kindles, re-charging my scooter and seeing at night all a challenge.  We have candles, and a gas stove, so no worries, we won't starve.  I think there is a lot of infrastructure upgrading being done for future expansions.   Plus we have had three full days, and three partial days, of rain - downpour type rain.  The type where we wait for it to get down to a trickle to take the dogs out (Pepper refuses to go out in the rain unless he is at the end of a leash) and by the time we are at the end of the road to our South and start to turn back - we get hit with a deluge.  We get totally soaked - all four of us - by the time we get home.  We expect the rain here - but it hasn't helped us feel badly about our choice to move on.

I asked Brandon if he had any pictures of the condo we rented – and he did!

Here are some pics of our future home:

Front door/living room.  Door to left is Kitchen

Balcony off living room - that's a cabbage patch

Kitchen 1

Kitchen 2

Balcony off Master Bed

Another bedroom

Showers could prove interesting.

Lot's of built-in closets - now what do we do with the one we bought?

 There is a convenience store on the first floor along with a beauty saloon (Yea!) and a couple other businesses.  Parking in a garage in the basement for when/if we get a car or someone coming to visit has one. All entrances are security type.  There are several farmacias and a huge open air mercado/flea market nearby, and two supermarkets - one north, one south, about 6 blocks, a mall about 1 1/2 miles away and a large Home Depot type hardware store in the same area.  Cuenca is bustling with a ton of different things to see and do, so we should not have to worry about being bored.