Our life here in Gran Canaria is beautiful and eventful.  We thought that we would show you a few pictures of where we go everyday and where we live.


Here Reed is at our favorite fruit store!  It is just around the corner from the JAS center.  It has the biggest strawberries that you have ever seen!!  We shop here almost everyday!

This is what the street looks like that the fruit store is on.  It is one of the main streets through Las Palmas.  Our JAS center is just on the other side of those buildings on the next street.

This is our house that we live in!!  It is the old Canary Island Mission Home.  It sits on top of a big hill and over looks the valley of Santa Brigida.

This is our living room on the main floor.  As you can see, we have plenty of room for visitors!!

This is the view from our kitchen window.  As you can see, we are in the mountains of Gran Canaria.

This is our kitchen.  It is pretty big and nice!  It only took us 1/2 hour to figure out how to turn the ovens on!!  They are not like the ovens in the USA.  We are also trying to figure out celsius tempts. and what they would be in farenheit.

This is our pantry.  It is pretty nice to have such a big one.  It is to the right of the kitchen.

Best part of the house - 2 dryers!!!  this is right next to the pantry!

This is our bedroom and yes, we like it!!  We have a nice balcony through those glass doors.  Yes, that is also a flat screen TV that the Eynons (the senior couple that we replaced) left for us!  They have set us up pretty well!!  To bad we don't have cable yet!!

This is the view that we wake up to every morning!  This is looking through the glass doors in our bedroom.  Not bad eh?

This is our bathroom.  The shower is great but it takes about 5 minutes to get hot water, but once it comes, life is good!!

Our house is three stories.  This is the staircase from the main floor (living room, kitchen, etc.).  You enter on the 3rd floor and you can see the other staircase that goes down to the 1st floor where our bedroom is.  This house has 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, den, 2 offices, dining room and breakfast nook.  Also a basketball court and a back yard.  Plenty of room for any visitors!!

If you wonder how we get around, here is our car.  It is a Corsa (we think it is Italian?)  It has a whopping 3 cylinders!!  It humms when it hits 80 kilometers, not the type of humming that a ferrari does, but more like a go-kart!!  We can't complain, it gets us around the island!

We discovered that we have a "lightening bolt" on the back of our car and on the steering wheel, so how can you go wrong with a lightening bolt on your car?  At least we look fast!