So after 2 days at the Avana Hotel, our apartments at Big Tree were finally ready.  They had taken us by yesterday to look at our apartments, and they were distinctly not-done-looking.  The construction crew assured us that our floors would be ready to move into by today, though, and sure enough, our rooms are finished today.  I think a construction crew of like 50 people worked through the night to assure that they were done on time.  It looks like we’ll be living in a construction zone for a few weeks (or months) to come, though.

Since this is Beth and my first place together, we had to take a moment to make it special:

Carrying Beth over the Threshold of our New Apartment!

Our apartment has been mostly great so far.  We have a two-bedroom, two-bath unit that is about 75 square meters big.  We have a basic sink, microfridge, microwave, and magnetic hot plate in our kitchen.

After move-in, we went to the big mall nearest to our new apartments, called Mega Bangna ( http://www.mega-bangna.com/th/about-megabangna ).  We went to the Big C store (like of like a small Wal Mart) for some basic grocery and cleaning needs.  We walked around and looked at the different options we had in the mall, had some great smoothies, and ate at a McDonald’s there (we spent so much time just looking around, we were crunched for time!)

It is nice to be in our new apartment, where we will be spending our next year!  So exciting — we LIVE in Thailand!  Wow.