Well, here I am again, packing for my trip. This time, I am packing to go home to Nevada. It's bitter sweet really. On one hand, it's nice to go home, see my babies and my friends. On the other hand, I have a list of stuff near two pages long of things I have to get done when I get home. To top it off, I know that now it will not really feel like home anymore, it will feel like that topsy turvey place full of boxes!
This week has been, well crazy! We got in on Wed. night. It was a very long day. We found each other, our rental car and then our hotel! We managed to find dinner and then pretty much crashed. Thursday we had to get up early and have breakfast and go meet with the new guys at the office. They were the most warm and inviting group of people ever. They sat and talked with us about places to look for a home, weather, schools, shopping, people and of course work for four hours. They took us to lunch and chatted with us some more. We felt very welcomed by everyone in Adams new office. During the whole meeting they kept saying, if you decide to come on bored. That was nice to hear, it ment, they wanted Adam, they were waiting for him to say yes. After the meeting we left and took a drive around the area, we went and looked at the area we were going to look at the house in and visited what would be the girls new school if we took that particular house. The school was nice, has a HUGE play area with LOTS of very cool play scapes. The guidance counselor could not be any sweeter, or any more southern if she wanted to be. It was a nice experience for us there. She gave us paper work for the school, a list of what the girls would need and offered to tour the girls and us around the school when we came back. That pretty much took up most of our Thursday!
On Friday morning, we drove back out to the house and looked at it. It's hard to explain! On the main level, there are 3 bedrooms, a "mud" or breakfast room, a parlor and a living room and a bathroom.
On the lower level, that used to be a basement, there is a HUGE room they used as the master bedroom.. its massive with a "closet" that's the size of 2 or three walk in closets... there is a laundry room, two more bedrooms, a bathroom and an empty room. The master bedroom has a fireplace, and there is one in the living room upstairs. There are 4 doors leading to the outside.. the outside is equivalent to one and half football fields. It's stupid big!! Half is grass and half is woods. We are told there are deer and many wildlife that come to the property, and while we were in the yard we saw, red robins, wood peckers and heard countless other birds. Its very peaceful While we can see the neighbors, the property is so big, we are in no way on top of them.
The home needs updating... they had begun the work on the place and had to stop before they had to sell it. There a several little projects we would do, but are excited about doing.
We filled out the application and are now, waiting to hear back. It should take a couple of days to hear back from them on if everything went well. The only thing that we are trying to get settled is, we don't want to start the payments until March when we would move in, leaving the whole month of Feb for them to not make any money. So, we are negotiating right now with that.
Once we looked at the house, we went to home depot and priced some of the projects we would want to do right away to see if it was something we could work with. We then took a drive around some more of the area, the other way. We accidentally found Philipp Moris USA. The plant is massive! But, not that I ever thought about it, it really had a strong oder of tobacco just driving by! (it's over an hr from where we'd be living) We found and drove around the Lowes motor speed way, which too is gigantic! We found the huge mall that looks like something I'd never want to walk through! After that we went back and relaxed for a while at the room. Then we realized it was a Friday night and we had no kids, so we went to a 1030 movie last night! It was odd to be out late and not have to worry about getting home.
Today we went and visited a plantation. It's very old and has original buildings and land, it was very neat to see. While leaving there, we passed and stopped at the Carolina raptor center. Its a sanctuary for injured raptor birds. If you don't know what those are, they are owls, vultures, hawks, eagles, any bird that hunts and kills with talons and beaks. It was fascinating to us. They try to heal the birds and release them into the wild, but if they can't do that, they provide them with a home of their own and provide as much natural invironment for them to live in.
After that, we went back to the room for a break, and I crashed!! I slept for a few hours, missing our hockey game, we were going to go to. But I guess I just needed the rest! We went and had dinner and talked for a while.. now we are getting ready to head to bed and have a very very long day tomorrow. Adam will get home around 4 and I will get home around 10 (pm for both).
After that... we wait on news. News on the house, should get the final offer letter for Adam to sign all in the next few days. But while we wait, my life gets crazy....er! I have to make appointments for the kids, pack the house and make arrangements. Its going to be a while before I "rest" again!
We feel our trip was successful, I'm happy with the way it went. I won't feel comfortable and easy about it until we have signed papers from everyone, but that's just me!
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