As you may guess from the title, we are HERE!
It has been a crazy several days. Travel back to Boise from Brisbane takes over 30 hours from start to finish. You would have laughed until you peed your pants to see us hauling our suitcases from the maxi taxi to the airport terminal! 10 checked bags and 2 wheeled carryons with a backpack for each person. When you have to live out of what you bring for up to three months, you pack it all with you.
We had a whirlwind time in Nampa. 2 cars and a mortgage dealt with (but more on that later!) in only 3 days and we are now in Carlsbad and have just put an offer down on a house we love. Have to see how that turns out! Now to wait until Thursday late afternoon to see if our offer is accepted or if we have much back and forth with it.
Lyle and I have the keys to our 3 bedroom, 2 bath bungalow. It is about the same square footage as the townhouse we lived in our first year in Australia, so this will work just fine! It's all on 1 floor, so no 3 flights of stairs to get into the house! The biggest drawback is that it is on the opposite side of town from where the kids will be going to school. Lots of driving in the meantime.
The cars have turned out to be a lot of "fun" to deal with. The dealer finance office seems to be having a problem with our not having a permanent address when we applied, but we have the cars in our possession. I feel kind of bad for the salesman as he is trying to get us to come in and re-sign our credit application with the New Mexico (temporary) address, but we are in New Mexico and can't just drop by to re-do the paperwork! We have some letters from the company regarding our living situation. It's hard for some to wrap their heads around! Heck, sometimes we just have to look at each other and laugh and laugh and laugh.
We still have a run to Oregon to do before we do the drive south and get going here. So, while we have done an incredible amount in the last week, we still have a lot to go!
Much love and hugs!!
It has been a crazy several days. Travel back to Boise from Brisbane takes over 30 hours from start to finish. You would have laughed until you peed your pants to see us hauling our suitcases from the maxi taxi to the airport terminal! 10 checked bags and 2 wheeled carryons with a backpack for each person. When you have to live out of what you bring for up to three months, you pack it all with you.
We had a whirlwind time in Nampa. 2 cars and a mortgage dealt with (but more on that later!) in only 3 days and we are now in Carlsbad and have just put an offer down on a house we love. Have to see how that turns out! Now to wait until Thursday late afternoon to see if our offer is accepted or if we have much back and forth with it.
Lyle and I have the keys to our 3 bedroom, 2 bath bungalow. It is about the same square footage as the townhouse we lived in our first year in Australia, so this will work just fine! It's all on 1 floor, so no 3 flights of stairs to get into the house! The biggest drawback is that it is on the opposite side of town from where the kids will be going to school. Lots of driving in the meantime.
The cars have turned out to be a lot of "fun" to deal with. The dealer finance office seems to be having a problem with our not having a permanent address when we applied, but we have the cars in our possession. I feel kind of bad for the salesman as he is trying to get us to come in and re-sign our credit application with the New Mexico (temporary) address, but we are in New Mexico and can't just drop by to re-do the paperwork! We have some letters from the company regarding our living situation. It's hard for some to wrap their heads around! Heck, sometimes we just have to look at each other and laugh and laugh and laugh.
We still have a run to Oregon to do before we do the drive south and get going here. So, while we have done an incredible amount in the last week, we still have a lot to go!
Much love and hugs!!
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