Thank goodness I'm home....

For a while there I didn't think I'd make it back alive! What a horrible trip that was! LOL! I just can't make myself re-live the whole experience so I'll put it in a really quick nutshell for ya. Our flights were good, we stayed at a 5 star hotel that was beautiful but when we got to our room it looked like a crime scene ie: blood on the floor, bed, ect....I can't begin to tell you how horrified I was. Especially since Mike and I watched a really creepy hotel movie called vacancy the week before. Yes we did get another room immediately far away from that one. House hunting was horrible and depressing. The areas we could afford to live in weren't very good ones. We made an offer on something but had to withdraw it as it was fixing to go in to foreclosure and after we made the offer the bank said it would be 10-14 days before we'd get an answer. Back to square one we go. We had to have something before we left as it was only gonna be about 30 days until we needed to move. The day before we left our realtor showed us a house that had gone on the market the day we arrived. She didn't show it to us sooner because it was a bit more than what we had told her we wanted to pay. The people who owned it are going through a really nasty divorce and were hoping to get rid of it quick. We were the first people to look at it but there were a couple of more showings scheduled after ours. It was perfect so we bought it! 2 stories, 3 bedrooms, a fully finished basement, 2 full bathrooms, and it's nearly 1,800 square feet! The house we live in now is only 1,100 square feet so that gives us a lot of extra room to move around! It's got a beautiful deck in the back and you have to go down some stairs to get to the backyard. It has a privacy fence all around it that has a gate in the back that takes you in to the forest. Seriously...look on a map. The house is on Plantation Forest Dr. in Spotsylvania, Va. and the forest is called Plantation Forest. I LOVE the entire area!! And I love that we have a forest out back! It's so perfect! I can't wait to take the kids exploring! I got this pic off of my realtor's site. Our inspection is Tuesday morning and she'll be there for it. She's gonna take some better pics for me when she goes. That tree's covering up a nice portion of the house in this pic so hopefully she can get a better pic of it. I think they may have trimmed back that tree a bit after this pic was taken as I don't remember that tree covering up that much of the house. I'm so glad this is done and hope I never have another trip like that one again. It was SO stressful. I can't tell you how thrilled I am that we won't be living in a townhouse. And I tell ya, the D.C. area sure could use some more signs to tell ya where you're going! We spent a great deal of time being lost. We had our atlas but a map doesn't do you much good if there aren't any signs. I think I've about recovered from the trip. I guess I really should get to packing. It looks like we'll be moving on Oct. 8th.

P.S. If you ever go to D.C. don't rent a car..lol.