Are You Looking for Something Nice?

Was what one real estate agent said to me today as we walked into the only house we got to see today. Umm - want to be honest yet not alienate the real estate agent. The entrance to the one we saw today was comprised of cracked tiles with scattered cockroaches. Looked like it hadn't been lived in for a while.

"how long has it been empty?" I asked.

"A week"

I tried to imagine it with our furniture. Nope .

"Yes, we're looking for something nice." I said.

"well, in that case - I just posted another one that is close to here, but is a completely different house."

After talking to her for a while, I decided that the nice one wouldn't work either.

I was glad this house didn't work - it seemed like a nice area except for the house that was directly across the street. Cars up on blocks in the dirt yard and a rather large dog watching our comings and goings.

The house was kinda cool - 80 years old so had some neat quirks and details, but needed some work.

Anyway Ellis wants a yellow house. Or a lemon one.

Monday is not a good day for seeing houses. Agents are busy submitting applications from showings on the weekends so that is all we saw today.

Stopped at Nandos on the way home. I think perhaps it may be cheaper here. Hooray - it was just as good.

The rest of the day was filled with fun outings - went to the waterpark and ran into Mireille and Helen (from the party yesterday - how funny is that!). We also went to Aldi (discount shopping) and picked up a fibre optic mini tree only to just now discover we are missing the cord. Dang!

Tomorrow we have a full day of house viewings. Not sure if any are what we will be looking for but.... Oh, the agent today gave us the address of a house that may come on the market it soon. It looks fabulous. I hope she calls me back!

Oh - I should mention that we went for another walk this evening (as we had such a nice night last night on our walk). As we were sitting on the pink bench Ellis said

"I'm Mr. Happy."

yup - today was a better day.