Another Quiet Sunday

Saturday was definitely a long day. I was looking forward to a relaxing, quiet Sunday. No one does anything on these days. It's great. It's so quiet and peaceful. With all the shops and stores closed, it's like you are forced to actually sit down and relax. It's pretty nice.

We still had some things to get done. Brett and I finished unpacking our suitcases and putting our clothes away in the little dresser Leve had given us. We put all our bathroom stuff in our bathroom and put the luggage in the storage area downstairs. It was nice to open up the room a little bit rather than having everything spread out everywhere. We organized a bit and finished cleaning up our room.

Next task was laundry. We had quiet a bit of laundry saved up since it cost 9.50chf to do wash at the hostel. We decided to wait, in hope we would find an apartment soon with laundry. Good thing we did... because that could have gotten stinky. We did about three loads of laundry today.

Here are a couple of pictures of the laundry room. The first picture is this device that measures how much energy or electricity is used by you while you are doing your laundry. Every flat gets one. So, that way, the utility companies can keep track of how much we use in stead of using coins or a card, this is how we get charged for doing laundry. It is added into the utilities bill per month.

So, this is a picture of what it looks like inside our elevator. To get to the basement to do laundry, you guess it... -1. To get to ground level, it's 0. It was sort of confusing at first, because I have never been to a negative level before.

This is a picture of our side of the laundry room. We always use the right side. Right behind me, there is the exact same thing, but half of the building uses the left side, and the other half uses the right. On the left side of this picture is the washer and on the right side is a tumbler. I think it's a dryer, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't get hot, it only spins the clothes if they are still too wet when they come out of the washer. Leve told us we didn't need to use it.

This is where we hang up our clothes. They have two sides to do this. On each side there is that grey box on the wall, which blows our warm, dry air and it also absorbs the moisture in the air. It condenses in the machine and drips out water into the small little bucket below it. 

The other side...

And this was just another view...

When we finally finished laundry, the day had already ended. It was okay because there was no reason to go outside that day. It had gently been raining all day. There was never a break in the clouds. It's this gentle relaxing rain. Not a mist, or light rain, but the best work I can come up with to describe it is gentle. There was quite a bit of rain coming down, but it never poured. It was different. I took some pictures out our bedroom window because the clouds looked to be caught in the trees.

Well, that was pretty much our Sunday. Later in the evening, we sat down and enjoyed a salad with Leve and then we all had dinner together. I think we also showed Leve PeopleofWalmart.com that night. He had never seen it before... I think we were laughing for a straight hour. It was great.

Sleepy time. We have a busy day planned out for Monday with lots of office things to do for Brett's student visa. Good thing we have Leve to show us where we need to go.