Temporary Apartment # 2

Well, we got successfully moved!  What a day.  We had to be out of our last apartment by 11 am and check in for our new place wasn't (technically) until 3 pm.  So, we moved everything from our place to Ryan & Jenee's.

Once the first move was done, the four of us girls headed to the office of our second place to try and check in.  This was our first extended expedition into the Chueca neighborhood.  They did let us check in and gave us directions to the apartment.  So, we hiked up there.  We got into the building (Sagasta 7) and were promptly shooed away the the lady at the front desk.  She sent us to Sagasta 11.

The gentleman at the desk there promptly sent us up to the 7th floor, where we discovered our keys didn't work.  And we scared the lady living in the apartment we were trying to get into!  We tried the floor we thought we were supposed to be on, but then decided to call the rental office for help.

Where do we live??  We don't know!!

They told us to go back to the first place, and gave us some more specific instructions.

This time the lady let us in and we were able to get to the apartment!  We had some trouble with the lock, but our nice neighbor guy helped us.

In the elevator of our new apartment building!

tricky lock

Yay!  Shortly after exploring, an elderly lady knocked on our door.  She walked in and started chatting with us (in Spanish).  She walked through the living room and out on the patio, telling us all about it :).  I thought Nikki and Ashley handled this odd occurrence quite well.  I was just confused the whole time - is this typical?  After she left, we decided she probably just wanted some company :).

Ash and my room is just big enough for these two beds.

As Nikki is demonstrating, the kitchen is huge!

Our lovely animal skin rug.

living room

After touring the apartment and saying adios to our visitor, we grabbed some lunch and went to collect our bags.