How Do We Get From the Garage to the House?

When normal people build a house they put the garage on the high side of the lot.  If there is no slope on the high side, you can actually go from the garage to the house without a step up. We, on the other hand, for reasons too lengthy and boring to explain here, put our garage on the low side of the lot. And the lot slops a lot :-) So the door going into the garage is about 3 feet above the garage floor or five steps up.  If we only built steps to the door, getting into the house would be awkward especially if the one entering was to be carrying packages, so...we built a deck in the garage.