This weekend we took a few stpes towards moving into our new home in Huntington Beach. On Friday I left work early, drove down to Huntington Beach and picked up Flo from work. Then we drove to our new place and actually got the keys to our new apartment. It was actually my first time seeing our new apartment. When we took the initial tour at the apartment building I only saw the staged apartment and not our actual one. So for me it was extra exciting. After we got the keys we stayed in Huntington Bach for about one more hour and moved in some things we had brought from home.

On Saturday we actually stayed at our new place for a bit longer. Around lunchtime we drove to Huntington to wait for the delivery of our new couch and our new desk. We used the waiting time to move in a few more things and check out the area a little bit. We left at around 6 to cross off one more thing from our to do list: Buy a fridge. After a little back and forth we decided to get a stainless steel French Door fridge, which was very expensive, but will hopefully accompany us for a few years.

Today we ran our last errand for the new apartment: We took the cat to the vet. We had to get him vaccines in order to get a pet license, which is a must at or new place. So this weekend wasn’t only exciting for us, but also for our little furry friend.

This week we will bring a few things to the new apartment every day and on Saturday we will finally fully move into our new life in Huntington Beach.

I know we are only moving in about 4 weeks, but I am already getting excited and a little anxious for it. Lately life has been a bit stressful and now with all the moving tasks added to our list, our days are practially filled with errands and planning. Yesterday we drove by our new neighbourhood and that made the move so much more real than just thinking about it from Los Angeles.

We already crossed one big planning part of our move off the list this week: We hired a moving company. We had been thinking about doing that for a while, since I don’t find it too expensive over here and because our six suitcases we came with grew up to a quite impressive household in the last two years. So on March 30th the so called Rock’n'Roll mover will load all our belongings in a big black truck and move them down to Huntington Beach.

The building we will move in to actually provides moving boxes for new residents, which is very convenient for us. Even if we will get 25 boxes, we will try to scale down a little bit and maybe get rid of a few things we don’t need anymore.

That was the exciting part of the whole moving situation. And now comes the part I am a little anxious about: The new neighborhood and the commute I will have to do every day. Living in Huntington Beach will be a whole lot different from living in crazy and busy Los Angeles. I am sure we will like it, but I am also convinced it will be a big change for us. The commute – I will probably just have to get used to it. And always keep in mind that living by the beach was always our dream. And dreams are there to be lived!

Just recently I told you that Flo and I are looking for a new apartment. Well, we already found one. After a pretty short two weekends of looking, we decided to apply for an apartment in Huntington Harbour. Yes, we didn’t really want to move into one of those apartment complexes again, but actually it ended up to be our best option. So let me tell you a little bit about our future apartment.

As I mentioned above it is located in the Huntington Harbour area. We don’t actually face the Harbour or beach, but it is only a 10 minute walk to the beach and a five minute walk to the Bolsa Chica Wetlands of Huntington Beach. The apartment complex is a little bigger than the one we live in now, but it’s also more widespread. Right now we basically face another apartment with only a few feet in between. Our new place will face the Pool area and have some nice Palm Trees and green.

The apartment itself has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a pretty new, very nice kitchen. It also has a large balcony and lots of storage space (which we really need). And the best thing: We will pay the same rent we pay for our 1 bedroom now. BTW in case you aren’t familiar with the american system, a two bedroom means there is actually two bedrooms + one living room. So to say it the german way we will actually have a three room apartment.

As you might know already renting an apartment over here is not actually easy. You have to apply, which means the management will check your credit history, will do a background check (meaning call your work and the place you currently live at) and also call your references (people you know, work with etc.). This process is a little nerve wrecking (especially for me since I hate waiting), but for us it worked out fine. And now we will be moving into our new place around March 23 and finally live in the OC and super close to the beach!