Wanted: 2 bedroom apartment on the beach and work/life balance

We are finishing out week 3 here in Valencia Spain, and starting to get in to the groove. Our home office is located at our dining table, Tyler and I face to face with me taking up most of the space with my two laptops and multiple gadgets that are taking a bit of the edge off from our very non-ergonomic setup. Our days are far from routine at this point, but they look something like this:

• 9:30/10:00 a.m., the unlucky one of us gets up with Presley and tries (with varying success), to keep her quietly entertained while the other one sleeps until 10:30 or 11.

• 11/12, have breakfast and walk Bodhi as we take turns checking in on afternoon emails from the homeland.

• 1-4, go to the beach, pool or in to town to see what we can see. Its been really hot (in the 90s - mid 30s celsius which I am beginning to correlate my days to) so anything outside of pool/beach usually results in us desperately searching for a restaurant or shop with air conditioning while fighting over my battery operated fan.

• 5pm - Presley iPad time which, if we are lucky, leads to a few hour siesta

• 5pm is 8 am back at home, so Tyler and I usually sit down to work for a few hours.

• 8/9 pm, cook or go out to dinner

• Between 10 and 11, put Presley to bed (I know, right?!)

• Work until 1 or 1:30 a.m. (Double I know, right?)

Our first lease is up on September 3rd so we've been spending any spare time we have searching for the next place to hang our uniquely American looking hats. (We've embarrassingly realized we are the only ones wearing baseball hats outside). Since its been so hot, we've been aiming to land somewhere close to the beach. Unfortunately though, we've learned that the beach rentals are either weekly/monthly in the summer, but then September - May, the owners prefer a longer lease. So we've booked a week or so at the beach for when we check out from here, and then, we will see where the wind blows us. Current thought is we will pack up when it gets a little cooler and start spending 2 weeks each in the other countries in Europe on our short list. Stay tuned! Here are some pictures from in and around our place.