Life in Copeley

Despite all of the drawbacks to living in family housing (no dishwasher or garbage disposal, 1 washer/dryer per building, past residents' hairs glued to the floor, etc.), I must admit that Dan and I have enjoyed our time here for the most part. Dan's walk to school is under 5 minutes. My drive to work is under 5 minutes. We've seen squirrels, groundhogs, woodpeckers, deer, skunks, raccoons and foxes all pretty close to our aparment.

Perhaps one of the best things about living here is the diversity of the residents. We're the only Americans in our building. We've got Chinese, Chilean, and Indian neighbors. In the building behind ours is a Russian family. Just the other night the dad decided to have a big old fire right underneath his make-shift sun porch (a tarp on sticks). The fire may not look big, but take my word for it - it looked like his tarp was going to catch on fire at any minute. Sorry the picture isn't bigger. When I zoomed in, it got blurry... The guy who lived there before him was from France and one day I looked out to see him and his buddies having a bongo party. They were all just slapping their bongos while other people danced. He was pretty crazy but very entertaining as well. I hate to say it, but we're going to miss this place when we move this summer!

In other news, thanks to everyone who has taken our gender poll! The final tally was 16 votes for girl and 10 votes for boy. We'll find out for sure next week (unless the little bean doesn't cooperate in which case I'll be really disappointed!). We're really excited. Here's the latest prego picture from me at 21 weeks. Yes, my cheek is really shiny. And I promise I'm not trying to stick out my belly!