Home Sweet Home. Yeah, right.

We are finally in our new condo. It's so weird not to be living in a house with a backyard! And it's so weird to go from 3700 sq. ft. to 2000 sq. ft.! I really thought we had purged enough stuff before moving, but I guess not. Geez, we filled a 20 yd. dumpster and made about 50 (no exaggeration!) trips to Goodwill, but we still have way too much stuff!
Ryan is still in shock over how small his room is! He went from a 14x16 ft. room, (not including the big bay window where his built-in desk was) with a huge walk-in closet, to a very small 10x12 room with a very small closet. I keep reminding him that in a few months he'll be living away at college, but it's still an ajustment.
I'm just having problems trying to figure out where to store my pots and pans! I don't have a problem with the smaller space---it's just finding places to put stuff.
I haven't met all of my neighbors yet, but it's very quiet around here. I did meet the guy who's opening the Far West Trading Co and Tea Bar down below one of my neighbors condos. He's very cool and I'm sure I'll spend lots of time in his shop.
For any of you who are unfamiliar with the type of community this is, it's a mixed use community. It's called the Town Green Village and it's groups of condos surrounding the town green park. The condos are all above businesses--mostly fancy little shops that sell fancy little things and clothing that no one can afford, except maybe tourists. The community was designed to resemble the original downtown area which has been gone for many years. To me, it kinda looks like Main St. in Disneyland! LOL Each condo has a different facade. It's been written up in all kinds of publications and the Sierra Club lists it as one of the top 10 communities in the nation, because of it's mixed usage buildings and the fact that you can walk to all the stores and restaurants. It's very charming. There are restaurants and cafes with sidewalk seating like in Europe and an Irish Pub on the corner.
Now about the inside of my condo---you can't walk from one room to the other! I have so many boxes stacked in every room, I can't stand it! I was sick in bed the first 2 1/2 days we were here, so I'm running behind on my unpacking. This place is a mess, but until I figure out what to do with everything, I guess I'll just have a mess.