Further settling in

Nothing big to report, just further settling into our new apartment, city, and life. Today is one of our two anniversaries, this is the "legal" one, 11 years ago at the Fluvanna County Courthouse, but we really date our relationship as 29 years old. We are going out to eat this evening at a place that is out of our normal price range. That's how old folks celebrate.

We got two rugs delivered today and they look nice. I think we'll be getting a few more from the same company. It's making our apartment looked more lived in. We've also purchased a printer and have a bunch more stuff being delivered from |IKEA on Friday. We've finally worked out an organization system for the closets so we know where to find things. All the suitcases are empty and stored away but we still have a few more things to bring over from the old apartment. We are beginning to get the kitchen stocked and doing a little bit of cooking at home.

Bailey continues to demonstrably earn and establish her title as the Most Fun Dog at the dog park. Today we walked in and found probably seven dogs just standing around with their owners doing nothing. She had them all running within the first two minutes and everyone had a good time. She's still spooky about city traffic and sounds, but our new place is only four blocks from the park and it's a pretty quiet, low-stress walk to get there, at least most of the time. I take her out early in the morning to poop and pee and then we go out for a long walk and dog park visit in the afternoons when I'm home from class.

We went to an afternoon concert at the opera house this week. It was weird, discordant music and people were laying on mats on the floor throughout (we sat on a long bench on the side of the room). It's something the new opera director is trying and they had a good turnout for it. We went mostly for the experience and to see the inside of the opera house, although we still haven't been in the central theatre part. This was part of a series of concerts they are doing and we have tickets for at least one more. We'll see actual opera there at some point as well.

We went to the Lille Street Food Festival last weekend, lots of food trucks and breweries. It was nice.

She has really been enjoying walks on the long line through some of the open fields in the park.

It gives her the chance to roll in the grass and hunt small creatures like she used to do in our pasture.

A quiet time at the dog park.

Cementing her title as Most Fun Dog.

The kitchen is very small but functional. The refridgerator (on the left) is huge by European standards.

The empty space under the counter is where a dishwasher could/should go, but after buying the refrigerator, washer, and dryer, we decided to wait on a dishwasher.