Still homeless

It's now 10pm (Eastern-by the way, we don't like this time zone) and B and I are here ready to call it a night. We have to be at the airport for and early flight, and thankfully, both girls are down.

They've had it. I don't think they'd make it another day. Since last Tuesday, we've been on the go. Wed-Fri was spent in and out of numerous houses that were in no less than 6 or 7 (I too have lost count) different villages/towns/cities/townships/boroughs. The terms alone are enough to confuse you. And, just when you think you have it all together, you find out the house is in one township, but may have a different mailing address. My brain is still spinning. Abri now screams at the very site of the car seat, and if it weren't for a portable DVD player and the discovery of the automatic window control, Lise' would be doing much the same.

We did have the opportunity to take a small break. It wasn't a planned one, but a great one nonetheless. As I mentioned before, we had seen enough houses to make your head spin, so on Friday night at 5:30, B had the great idea to check in with friends in Pennsylvania to see if we could drive over for a day of watching football and good ole' lounging around. Thankfully, they welcomed us with open arms, so to PA we went. What a beautiful place. It was such a nice break. It was also disgusting to see what your dollar can buy in PA after real estate shopping in NJ. Oh well, maybe we'll have the opportunity to go there one day.

So after a fabulous 24 hr break, we headed back to the world of house hunting to look at "cottages" (read COZY-REAL COZY) in the Red Bank area. They were cute, but not sure it was what we want, so today we headed back west.

To make a long story short, I think we've ruled out the coast. As much fun as it would be to live out there, I think we'll wait until we can afford what we really want and not just the postage size house with one bathroom. That leaves the other area that is just a hop and a skip away from Princeton and one other area just west of where B will work. We didn't have time to see the houses in the second area. B will have to check that out without me next week.

On a bright note, we do have a house or two ear marked for the Princeton area. One of them has a garage/workshop that B could disappear into for days. But, until we get our appraisals back in AL, we can't make any type of offers on a house here. All that should be wrapped up by the end of the week.

Hopefully that wasn't too much info for you. We'll be on a plane home tomorrow. That's when we hope to kick it into high gear and get our house on the market.