The search is over....

Aahhhh...stress level is down one notch. Will and I agree on an apartment and it came in at $1300/month which ends up lower than what we anticipated although fits better in our budget. Yeah, we can travel and have a nice place. As soon as we get our camera (our stuff is in China, but we are waiting one more week to have it delivered directly to our apartment!). Our apartment...we haven't had one of those since beginning of July! Don't worry, it has good security outside and also within the apartment there are little red panic buttons you can press and security will be up to your place in 2 minutes. The real estate lady is under contract with us for the full 12 months - so she is the go between for us and the landlord and the management (since we don't speak mandarin very well). We have a 2 bedroom and 2 bathroom place, 123 m2 (about 1300 square feet - so bigger than our yellow house). We have an oven, small washer (we had the landlord add a dryer). The furniture is pretty nice - probably want to invest in a slip cover for at least one couch (we have 2 in the living room). We are having them add a desk and chair for Will in the second room and have decided to get an aerobed of sorts for the second room so we can use it instead for a yoga/meditation room while it is just the 2 of us! But now we have a few extra $$ that we can go back to the cool antique warehouse we went to over the weekend and get a buffet table or something. Anyway...I'll post pictures when we move in. I'm so excited! And I forgot to mention that we are on the 13th floor (I said yikes at first) BUT - they don't like 4's in China (the word 4 in chinese sounds like the word for death) - so technically we are on the 12th floor. Also our street address is 888 YuYuan (and 8's are lucky). This was definitely a better day than Sunday for sure.