Otherwise known as, “Why I’m glad we arrived in the middle of the night.” While the inside of our apartment is charming, the exterior leaves much to be desired. It’s not winning any style points, that’s for sure.
This is our building. We occupy the top 2 floors. An unfortunate Navy family lives beneath us. I haven’t met them yet. I think they might be hiding.
Our building’s twin. We live in the one on the right. 3 families live in the one on the left. If you click on this picture and then zoom in, you can see the metal doors and the red and yellow striped barrier. That is our front gate. Every time we drive in we stop behind the barrier and the guard inspects our engine and under the car. Then he lifts the barrier so we can drive in.
The top 2 floors of the other building are occupied by a family with 5 kids and 3 dogs so maybe I shouldn’t feel so bad for our downstairs neighbors.
Taken from my bedroom balcony: our parking lot and patch of grass. It may not look like much, but it feels like we won the lottery. So many places in Cairo/Maadi have no space for kids to play, but our boys can go outside and run around and play soccer and I don’t have to worry because they are inside our fence.
I love how Carter goes for the fist pump after scoring against his big brother.