Thursday, June 10, 2010

¡Hogar dulce hogar! (Home sweet home!)

¡Compramos casa! Hace dos fines de semana atrás Dave, Bruno y yo teníamos planeado irnos de caminata. Teníamos la casa de acampar, todo el equipo listo, el camino elegido, dónde acampar cuantas millas caminar por día... pero los del tiempo se unieron todos para decir que iba a llover, tronar y relampagear todo el fin de semana. Con ese pronóstico decidimos mover la caminata para otro fin de semana y dedicarnos a mirar casas y empezar el proceso de buscar agentes de compra. Bueno para hacer la historia corta vimos tres casas ese fin de semana, incluyendo la finalmente elegimos (tercera casa que visitamos). Conocimos a nuestra representante de compras y al otro fin de semana, el sábado, posimos nuestra oferta y el domingo a las cuatro de la tarde ya teníamos contrato... yupi! Aquí está la foto de la casa, cerramos el 23 de julio así que en un mes pondremos más fotos de la casa, por ahora sólo fotos generales.

We bought a house! So two weekends ago, Dave, Bruno and I were ready to go backpacking. We had the tent, and all the equipment ready, the trail choosen and the stops along the way, but aparently all the weather people got together to say it was going to rain dogs and cats out there with T-storms all around us, so we decided to stay home. Since Dave got his fantastic job and we are now more permanent in the area buying a house is best as to give away the money in rent. We set out to search for houses and got to see 3 that first weekend, including the one we end up choosing. We also met our agent and she is great with what she does, so after visiting other houses we decided to put an offer on the one we liked a lot, that was Saturday June 5th, on Sunday our offer was accepted. The seller will take the playground, but what kind of monster will take kids playgrounds as bargaining... hehehe. Anyway above is a picture of what will be our future home. Plenty of room for all the family and friends that need a room to stay. But we close on July 23rd so not yet people, just a bit longer. Needless to say we are all very excited, Bruno specially... he gets the big yard to run around.

Hugs to all