Video Tour!
Here's a video tour of our main apartment. We'll do one of the boys' bachelor pad when it's clean (maybe never!) and we should probably do one at some point of the front door, entryway, etc. In the meantime, enjoy!
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
What a fun book to read. We read this for book club and then watched the movie (which wasn't necessary since we've all seen it so many times we were quoting the whole thing). It is better to know from the beginning that Goldman wrote it all, there is no S. Morgenstern. You feel less duped. I thought it was really obvious that Goldman is the true author (his humor is the same throughout, there's no way the language is from the era Goldman claims it is from), but, I do remember thinking it really was an abridgment when I read it in high school or junior high. And a lot of the ladies at book club didn't know the whole thing is fake either. Some decided they didn't like the book just because they felt deceived by the author. It is so funny though. And you get all this background information about Inigo, Fezzik and Buttercup. I love the way he tries to place the book in time... "This was before Europe," then later he talks about Paris. Also, when he describes...
That place is so cute! I love the plants they have hanging everywhere. It looks a lot bigger than I imagined. I mean the rooms. The kitchen appliances and toilet room or tiny, but the rooms look spacious! The high ceilings have a lot to do with that. Imagine only 8 feet or even less and that place would feel so small. It's so clean too. Good job. With so many people, where did all their stuff go? :) Thanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteThe high ceilings are a big reason I wanted to sleep on the second floor instead of the third. That and knowing that Mira would probably need us in the middle of the night. I think the ceilings must be about 11 feet or so. I've found that it also helps a lot that every room has a door to it. I never really understood that about European apartments and houses, but it helps to have separate spaces. (Closing the doors also keeps it so much warmer.) And I love the plants, too! I hope I don't kill them. I'm not great with plants. But I should be okay just doing what Michal says to do.
ReplyDeleteAnd the stuff: there are three wardrobes, so all the stuff is in those. Also, it helps that the big boys are upstairs. And of course, I'd just straightened everything up. It's amazing how fast things get really messy, even with the relatively small amount of stuff we have.