Home Sweet Home

Finally all the house hunting has paid off! Today we signed a 6 month lease on an apartment in Brentwood, Burnaby. Not too far from Downtown, maybe a 15 minute Skytrain ride away.

It is near a fairly big mall, so there are lots of stores nearby, which is useful as a lot of areas outside of Downtown can sort of be in the middle of nowhere.

It's also on the same Skytrain line as my friend :) So if I ever want to pop to hers, I can, and vice versa. It's probably only a 15-20 minute ride on the Skytrain.

The apartment itself is a decent size. One of the main problems we had when viewing places was people here seem to think you don't need a living room. There were lots of really nice places, but they only had bedrooms, a

kitchen and a bathroom. Anyway, this place has a big living room, 2 decent size bedrooms,a kitchen , a balcony and a bathroom. The rent was reasonable too and the area is really quiet.

One problem is the whole place is completely unfurnished (except the kitchen) and furnishing an apartment will be expensive to say the least. I'm hopefully going to keep an eye out for a bargain on Craigslist and furnish the place gradually, although I can't skimp out on things like a mattress.

Im so happy to moving out of the hostel. We should be out of here on Thursday if all goes to plan. Finally I can get a good nights sleep, have a proper shower and unpack my suitcase!