Our New Place
We just moved into our new place in Ocean Park, Puerto Rico. It is about five minutes walk to the beach. It’s not the nicest place, but it has potential. The only drawback is it did not come with a oven, microwave, bed or hot water. At least we do have plates, forks , knives and some cook ware fridge and A/C. We also have a porch. YES! We are located just a short bus ride to Old San Juan and the airport.
The shower has an electric heater on it. Those electric water heaters are popular around here, since this is the second time I have seen one in the couple weeks we have lived here. I guess hot water is not a necessary commodity. Since it is so warm year around.
As for the lack of oven/microwave, we went out and bought a single electric burner that plugs straight into the wall. I have never seen these things before and I wonder if they sell them in the states.
Right now we are using the pads from a futon that came with the place. It was not very comfortable. We are going to go over to Salvation Army today and get a mattress or something for a bit more padding.
January 29th, 2008 |
Yeah, they sell those burners in the states. I’m sure there primarily used for cooking up drugs. But I remember when I was little my aunt had her gas shut off and she went out and bought one of those to cook food with.
January 22nd, 2008 |
Squalor! Looks good - maybe a bit scary. Don’t feel too bad, we didn’t have hot water for the first two months of living in our place either.
And it’s sub zero up here.