Settled In Our New Home

What a lovely place we will be living in for the next 7 weeks. It is such a beautiful and calming place to stay.

When we first arrived yesterday, we got the royal treatment and a tour first before going to our room. There are 29 rooms for families just like mine. The bedroooms have beds, dressers and chairs, but no TV and no tables, on purpose. They want us to mingle with others, so they have common areas where we all gather. The kitchen/dining room area is in the middle of the 2nd floor. It has four full kitchens in one room with tables and chairs for everyone. Many people can be preparing food or cleaning up without getting in each other's way. We have a section of one of the fridges and freezer, and a cupboard that locks with our room key. We have to provide our own food and do the preparation and cleanup. The kitchens have everything you can think of for cooking, and the counters hold "shared" items that are for all of us, like cookies someone makes, or a box of Florida oranges someone brought in. Food is only allowed in the kitchen area. No food is permitted in the other rooms.
There are many lounges or living areas with couches, tables, TVs, games, magazines and fireplaces. There is a fitness room, laundry room, computers rooms, library, meeting room (people have their craft projects set up in there to work on as time allows). As you walk around, you can't belive how many people actually live here, because there are so many little nooks for a person to go to. They also have ideas to do outside of the hospital/Lodge area.
A few more rules; you must wear shoes or socks, you must sign in and out if leaving, you must be quiet between 9:00pm and 7:00am near the bedrooms, and you must take care of everything to the best of your ability. Everyone is held to a high standard for keeping the Lodge beautiful.
They gave us a "suite", so we have a room with 2 beds, a room with 2 chairs, and a bathroom. It is nice for me if I want to stay up later than Justin. We love it here, and know we are mightily blessed.