Our House

Now that we have had some time to settle into our home here in Mussoorie, we thought that we'd give you a quick tour of the place. The first stop on the tour is our living room. Right behind the photographer in the picture below is our front door. Behind Beth you can see our the corner of our refrigerator. You can also see our wood stove in front of the old fireplace. Beth is reading a guidebook on India from our bookshelf. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a door just to the left of the photographer. This heads into our computer/TV room. There is also a door in the back left corner that goes to the kitchen. And that will be the next stop on our tour...

Our kitchen is ridiculously narrow. To the right in this picture is a wall with some cupboards and shelves, but all the counter space is to the left. That is why our fridge didn't fit inside. At the end of the kitchen is another door to the outside. Dave is stealing an extra bite of the dinner that Umilla made for us tonight. Now, we'll move into our entertainment room...

The other door from the living room leads to this room. The couch in the frame is actually a bed that we put a cushion behind. The rug on the floor is a new purchase described in a previous post. You can't see it, but just to the photographer's left is our new TV standing on a dresser. We can't watch it yet because we don't have a receiver for the satellite dish. To the left of Beth is a door that goes into the bathroom...

Actually, the first room is just the sink room. This is where we ended up fitting our dryer, which just vents out the window. We were going to dry some clothes last night, but there was a monkey convention right outside that window so we waited until today.

Now we come to the bathroom proper. This is accessed through a door that was right behind Dave in the last photo. There's not much to explain here except the giant water tank on the left. This is our "geezer." We use it to heat our water for showers. One of us (usually Beth) gets up a half an hour before we want to take a shower, turns the geezer on, and then gets back into bed. When we finally get up for real, we have nice hot water to clean ourselves with. Now the final room on the tour is our bedroom which is accessed through a door just in front of the geezer...

The bedroom is also pretty self-explanatory. The "bed" is actually two twin beds pushed together. We're looking into getting a big piece of foam to unify them a little bit. Dave's feet are pointing at the other door out of the bedroom which leads back to the TV/computer room. So this portion of the house is actually a circle.

Our house is actually part of a bigger building. It was originally a really big house built in the 1840s. Now it is divided into three units so we share the building with two other families. So far, we are really happy here. We still have a ways to go making it home, but we've got a good start.

Dave and Beth