Home is where the heart is

I wonder how many days have gone by since we started packing until today. It all happened in less than a month, but it seems like it has taken forever to get settled in our new home.

The truth is that the house where we were staying needs some serious maintenance. It already needed some work before last year's flooding during the monsoon. Then the next door neighbour decided to renovate his house and the common wall that we share was broken, so more humidity settled in.

It was easier to vacate the house completely, so that the proper work of repairing, painting and cleaning can take place. I don't understand why, but here in Mumbai it's very common for houses to be plastered in the inside ('for a nice smooth effect'), but with the level of humidity in this city?... Anyway, now I won't have to stop Fabi from playing with pieces of plaster that he takes of the walls! The kid was literally 'bringing down the house'!

We were suppossed to move so that the repairing of our house could be finished before this year's monsoon, however it's already started to rain, so I'm not sure what's going to happen with the schedule of work.

Here's a set of pictures that I took during the whole process. You can see what our living conditions are as of now. I'm actually enjoying the change, eventhough our 'new' house is *A LOT* smaller!