Justin - Krista New Place+ New Job

I returned earlier this week from helping Justin and Krista move into their wonderful new apartment in Henderson outside Las Vegas. Justin started dealing the World Series of Poker yesterday (Friday) and will be living there, returning shortly before the wedding in July when Krista will join him. I drove BJ's truck, Krista drove her dad's and Justin drove his dependable old Escort, all full of mostly Justin's stuff plus some shower gifts and various items including Red the snake. Red loves the heat and location next to a window in their apartment, but Krista would be happy if Red someone met an early death....We drove by her new school, less than 5 minutes away and still under construction. There were even workmen/women? there late at night, about 11pm, following a dinner and some fun we had at Sam's Town in Henderson, a few big blocks up the road from where they live. At right (R) is a picture of Justin in his uniform, which is his shirt and pants with a VERY expensive vest he had to get from the Rio. He has on name tag, employee ID badge, WS patch, etc. He can't wear sunglasses when dealing so this is just him looking cool, just home from his orientation Wednesday morning.

(L) Here's Krista on the couch in their new place. The stairs up are inside the apartment, with a ground level front door. Those are the stairs up behind Krista and that little wall. See the cool octagon window above their corner computer desk and snake central in the corner? Very nice desk, perfect use of the small space, very efficient, with cable & Internet hook ups in place, ready for activation.

(R) This is a not so great pic, but shows the outside, with their front door barely visible in the bottom right and Justin hardly visible on the balcony. That's "Red's Window" (the one you can barely see in the pic above from the inside) on the left, the neighbor's window on the right.

(L) Here's Justin on the balcony, small, but it's HOT out there, so big enough for the two of them the few times they might use it. Very new complex, very nice place, very quiet neighbors, the very few I saw in 24 hours or so there. I won't put all the pictures I took in here, as I have too many, but they have cathedral ceilings with those high shelves for plants, pots, decorative items high up, very cool!

(R) Here's the cute couple enjoying the few other pieces of furniture in their living room. TV using rabbit ears the will soon change to cable or satellite, depending on costs/deals available.



(L) The bedroom high ceilings, shelf and wonderful walk in closet! The fan/light had way too short pull strings to reach with no chairs/ladder to stand on....Justin had to lift Krista up so they could turn on the fan in there. One of their first purchases, chain extensions I'm sure.

(R) The cute little bathroom with shower gifts already set in place (black/red are the colors). Very nice, clean and new with lots of little shelves in the shower to hold things.

(L) This is the kitchen with dishwasher you can't see, new appliances, track lighting (dining and kitchen), lots of cabinets in the kitchen and over the dining room area that is partially seen in the foreground (no table/chairs yet).

(R) This is the laundry area that's INSIDE the apartment, the opposite wall from the kitchen picture above. You can see the end of the cabinets from the dining room in the upper right. If you were looking at the kitchen above and just turned to your left, you would see what's on the right. Very cool use of space and no need to run to another area in the heat to do your laundry!

(L) Just a fun shirt Justin says he'll never wear, they got at their "fired up" motivational meeting for the RIO and World Series. Put this in for the family members who play poker and understand all the puns in it. Will go to good use for sleep wear Krista said.
I had to redo this thing twice to get pictures the right size and to fit everything in....Sorry for the length of this, but I haven't blogged for awhile, so I consider myself caught up!