More House Pics

So, thought I would post some more exterior pics of the house. I am going to be posting rooms as they get done. And, for a little background...I closed on June 26 and left July 2 for 3 weeks!! I had the house a whole 5 days before leaving. Then home about a day and off again for a week. Thankfully, I am home for 3 straight weeks in August. My mom, aunt, sis, niece and a friend of the family are coming out for a "working vacation" and we are going to go to town. But, for the time I have been there I feel like a have made some progress.

House Pictures

Here is a picture of the front of my new house.

I have a ton of projects in the works. I have already replaced the 2 heating elements in the hot water heater, installed a new garbage disposal, hung about 14 blinds and installed the washer and dryer. The first project I could actually take pictures of took place tonight. I replaced the faucet in the kitchen. Here are the before and after shots.

Before...notice the gold and stainless...YUCK!!

After...MUCH better I think!

Seychelles

Our trip from Madagascar ended in the Seychelles Islands. Beautiful place, not very many people. I believe in 2005 Travel Channel voted Seychelles with best beaches and they deserved it! Again, a map to give a general idea of where in the world the islands are....


Here are some pictures from the island...

This was the landscape in front of the hotel

You'd be surprised how many of the cars actually looked like this!!

View from the ship as we came in.

The ship

The palm trees grew out instead of up...really cool!

Madagascar (no, not the movie)

We stayed in 2 cities in Madagascar (it is the island to the east of Africa). One was the capitol and the other just a normal city, Antsiranana. The place was very poor. We had beggars all over us wanting anything we would give them. One lady (we call her the "mista, mista" lady) followed us for at least 2 blocks saying over and over "Mista, Mista...feed the baby." So, one of the guys I was with gave her his remaining swig of water in his water bottle. You would have thought she won the lottery!! Makes you realize how much you take for granted!

The place looks like it was beautiful in its prime. The landscape was beautiful. I posted a map so you could get a general idea of where we were.

Air Madagascar...should I be nervous??

Laundry Day

South Africa

While we were in Johanesberg, South Africa we went on a "safari". Basically, we paid $4 to drive our van through the place. The cool thing was we were up close and personal with the animals. Here are some of my favorite pictures





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Hawaii

My third trip after starting my job was to Hawaii. Here is a picture of Diamond Head from the hotel. It was nice waking up to this view every morning!

First post...

Ok, so I was talking with my sister yesterday and she suggested I start a blog of all my travel especially since there is a new camera involved. What I am going to do is go through all my pictures from the very beginning and try to remember where and write a little about each one. Please be patient as I have 6 years of pictures to go through. Hopefully, this will help people keep up with me as well.

Marisa