La Casa Martin

Last post for the day! As you all have guessed, because the company provides us with a living allowance, they hired a local man (Arthur or as we call him Arturo)to take us around to find a place to live. A live action House Hunters International if you will. So Luke and I were both very excited about this. Neither of us has really had a house before... let alone by ourselves, we felt pretty grown up as we set out in La Ceiba with Arturo, Natalie and Tyler.

La Ceiba is a very small town. Not too small, but you can walk anywhere you need to in the city in about 30 minutes. So Arturo decided to take us to a couple of the safe sections of the city to look at houses on the 19th. We walked through a neighborhood or as the call them here 'Colonias' called Naranjal (no idea how to spell that). It was an extremely nice neighborhood but there were no houses there for rent. We then walked around through downtown and saw a couple houses there. There was one that was right next to the futbol stadium that was promising, but we decided it would be too loud for us and the dogs. After a day of walking around and not finding anything, Luke and I were feeling a little sad. But we decided to keep our hopes up and decided that the next day would be our day.

Natalie, the new Kinder teacher, is playing on the volleyball team right now and was taking to a colonia called El Sauce (pronounced El Sao Se) and found a couple of houses there. We really liked one of them that was near a park that also had a small yard for the dogs. We looked at a couple more but nothing really struck us except for the one.

We decided to think on it for a couple days but on our anniversary I told Luke that I really saw us in the house. It was the perfect size (3 beds and 3 baths), large combined living and dining room area, room for the laundry, great sized kitchen and the neighborhood is really safe. He told me that he liked the house a lot and if I thought that it was the one we should go for it.

The next day we called the owner and were moving in! Before we did though, we had to go and buy everything! Rentals here do not come with anything...and that includes appliances! So Arturo took us to the second hand markets to pick some up. The only thing that we bought new were our bed and the table for our anniversary, everything else was as cheap as we could get. Luckily, we can use our credit card down here. lol.

Here are some photos of the house which include a napping Luke, don't mind him.

Last but not least, the fruit tree in the back! Luke didn't get a mango tree, but he did get a lemon tree and we do have some fruit on it. Not much but I am looking forward to some fresh lemonade (not really but Luke is). Cheers!