To House or not to House…

So today we received two offers from housing on where we will be living for the next three years. Offer one sounded amazing but would never work for us. It was a new apartment at Camp Kinser. This would be 20 min+ for Josh to travel to work, which was fine in New Bern but in Japan we will exercise a bit more caution. The other problem was…its an apartment, no yard for our Lily! And the fact that you can’t even have pets in these apartments factored in as well. Offer number two was a duplex on Foster. While it was ON Foster, this meant you had to go out the Foster gate to get back on because it is a separate housing entity. We went and visited and weren’t too thrilled with the prospects of living there. Meet our possible new home…

                        

It’s not amazing, but most of the base housing isn’t really amazing. It is older and unrenovated, but on the plus side it has a pretty big yard for Lil. From the outside you can’t tell but the ceilings are actually pretty high in all of the rooms. Its not a super bad layout, but it’s hard to not compare it to our old house that I loved so much. Tomorrow I am going to go talk to someone in housing about possibly living off base, and whether it is affordable  to our little family. We’ve found some really awesome looking places online and are really hoping they might look as amazing in person! Josh has to work tomorrow; he has a PFT and a gig that he can’t miss! Now that we are here he is, again, the only euphonium. Other than that, today we bought some cute kokeshi dolls to start our collection and I took a few more pictures! Enjoy.

Pictures from Camp Courtney (That haze in the background is the ocean, dang you overcast skies!)

Pictures from around town, nothing particular

Pictures of the plants- Hibiscus and a really bright bush, I think they have both of these in the states, but they’re more fun here =)

This one, I just found peculiar. Whenever they were doing yard work at the hotel here, they had another person holding a shield by the vehicles so that they wouldn’t get dirty. In the states they either tell you to move your car, or you get grass all over it.