Our Palace...

House from Bikini Beach / Front Door

King Size Bed / Ceiling Fan {kind of a big deal on both counts}

Cute Shower Curtain

His & Hers Vanity / Walk-in Closet

Kitchen / where our kitchen table would go if we had one... / REAL Refrigerator

Entry Way

Cute Yellow Chair / My OWN Dresser / Detailed shot of the Lava Rock wall {kinda scary}

The little things that make a house, a home: Christmas Cards, Welcome mat and our small collection of glass bottles. 

We moved on December 17 to our quaint apartment on "The Point." Laie's very own, ritzy part of town, where fishermen fish and tourists tour by day and where drug dealers deal by night. Or so it seems...there's always a cop car up in here! 

All that aside, we are so happy that we were able to find this place! Not only is the rent slightly cheaper, it's about triple the space {if not more!}. Everything is an upgrade to us: huge bed, fan, the entire bathroom, two dressers, a real kitchen sink and refrigerator, a double hot plate, drawers for our dishes, our very own washer/dryer, etc. We love that we do not live under the same roof as our landlord!!!!! Not to mention I am in like flint with our new landlord, Louise. She is ultra chill and is willing to help us with anything! So far, so good {on that note}. 

Our palace sounds too good to be true, right? There is another side to this story...centipedes. We've got 'em. Big ones! 4-6" long. The previous renter thinks they crawl through our lovely lava rock wall. I believe it's possible, centipedes can crawl on ANY surface--even our standard textured white walls. For example, as Tommy was going to lock the front door a tiny little centipede fell from the ceiling and landed on his head! Then we looked up and saw a grip of them just chillin up there. 

On to the termites that are eating my dresser! Every day we see the pile of wood shavings grow bigger and bigger. Now they seemed to have moved locations because a new pile has started to grow. Haha. The ants here are huge, nothing compared to our previous sugar ants. They have even finagled their way into a closed jar of peanut butter! 

On a better note about creeping things...we are frequently visited by "Geck" all of our Gecko friends. We're still trying to figure out if that's good or bad. We like the visits, but then we think they're here to eat their dinner, which means bugs are among us--hidden. They also like to hang outside our front door and scare us! We tend worry if they can get in then so can the BIG centipedes...I try not to think about that too much. 

When we moved in, the previous renter told us to never lock the bottom lock because it's jammed. If by some chance that were to happen, we would have to break-in our own house so we could unlock it from the inside. TWO DAYS LATER...I'm over the ledge crawling through our window! Tommy was able to pull the screen off and slide the window open. While I slid myself to the 2" ledge so I could tip-toe my way to the grand opening. Never again...seriously, never again!