We have a place to live!

Tomorrow we are signing the lease and moving into an apartment in Walnut Creek. It's a suburb about 15 miles east of the city. We are right next to a BART station, so can zip into the city at any time. We are near the base of Mt. Diablo, where there's good hiking and biking. Tomorrow we move into a one-bedroom apartment, and in 3 weeks we'll switch to a 2-bedroom in the same complex. (Since there's a 3-week backlog with the moving company, it works out perfectly to have our furniture delivered to the 2-bedroom.) The 2-bedroom apartment is on the top (3rd) floor and there's a balcony for the cats to sit on. They've never had an outdoor area before and we think they'll enjoy it. There's a storage unit for Mike's bikes and workbench. We can have a grill on the balcony. There's a washer/dryer hook-up and a dishwasher, and it comes with one reserved parking space. It's sort of a bland pre-fab "living community" but we can live with that. We'll make our apartment cool on the inside.