A House Tour (Exterior)

I’d love to be able to have you all over to our house for a meal or a cup of coffee, but since I can’t, I thought a photographic tour of our house would be the next best thing. Today I’ll start with the exterior of the house.

After entering our gate, this would be your view down our driveway. (Yes, there is almost always a dog or two or three there to greet you.)

If you were standing in this spot and looked to the left, you would see Mark’s container workshop. Handyman that he is, he recently welded some climbing holds on the side for our boys to enjoy.

And on the other side of the container, the Tuininga and Weber kids have enjoyed constructing some forts.

Straight across the driveway from the container we have the trampoline set up. It sits under a huge mango tree which is filled with tons of ripe mangoes right now. Here is Silas sharing some with friends.

Mark also built a great chicken coop in this part of the yard.

Here are its current inhabitants.

Now we come to the house.

Here’s the empty swimming pool. The landlady wants to get rid of it, but Mark would like to try to get it operational. We’ll see what happens J.

If you entered through those green gates, you’d come into the courtyard which generally looks something like this…

Keeping it real here people.

One of the best parts of this house is our view of Mount Wanale. (Quiz: can you guess the fruit hanging on that tree?)

We also really enjoy the big flat field at the front of the house. Great for soccer and for tiring out four boys J.

Well, I hope you have enjoyed this tour, and have a little better sense of where we call home. Pics of the interior coming soon!