Rob and Sara's Vancouver Adventures: Our new home

No big adventures since we posted last weekend, but many small ones. We bought ourselves some very affordable bikes from Canadian Tire last week and have been riding them around the city. Lots of hills, but there are some really nice trails. We're almost done putting everything away in our new home. And in the meantime had a great visitor come stay with us for a while.

Jason Goldlist (a friend from McKinsey) stayed with us for a few nights. He's moving to Vancouver from Toronto for 6 months as part of the Vanoc Olympics team. Starting tomorrow he's going to be helping them with their venue operations. It was great to have him here and fun to have the tables turn so quickly, where we were helping him find a place to live and get settled into the city. He found a nice new apartment building in Gastown and along with a couple roommates, is now in the process of funishing the place. It looks amazing as is though, so I'm sure it'll be even better when we go visit!! :)

Since many of you won't be able to get out to the West Coast for a while still, and since things are starting to settle down here (and we finally have internet at home!), I thought I would post a few pictures of our new home. I'll try to take some pics of our neighbourhood soon, which is really the selling point here, but thought I would start inside for this post.

So here's a tour of our new home for those interested.

This is part of the living room that we've sort of divided up into smaller spaces. What you can't see off to the left is our TV and DVD set-up.

Another part of the living room - our little library/sitting area.

And the last space in our living room - the office.

Our eating area/dining room.

Our kitchen. Still some things here that need putting away.

Large front hall closet for storage. We've got a smaller one right by the front door too. Sorry about the reflection off my running jacket!! Good for being seen in the dark tho.