January 2005 Status

Well, here we are and it's January already. Here's an update of where we've got to.

First, we have a date for leaving Japan: February 10. It'll soon be time to finalise the tickets, so it's now unlikely to change. We are also ready to ship our belongings -- that should be happening this Friday, January 21.

Our architect, Paulo, has completed the plans and submitted them to the council for approval. Though they aren't perfect -- we still want to make some small changes -- we are quite pleased. I'm going to put the ground and first floor plans in here...

And just for good measure, he's an E-W section through the house...

Finally, it looks like we have an apartment to move into as soon as we arrive. It'll be in the centre of Tabua, and by the standards we've got used to in Tokyo very large. This means that visitors will be very welcome even before the house becomes habitable...