Well our trip up to virginia was quite exciting. Of course it was like a week ago and now is the first time i'm actually able to write about it. The drive up was uneventful only long as noted in the previous blog. Since i was dissappointed with the gloomy weather outlook, i decided to leave my bike at home and forgo the idea of cycling skyline drive like i had planned. I was slightly disappointed at first but as it started raining, became windy and overcast, not to mention the cold, i'm glad i didn't have my bike. Of course on saturday, the day we left to come home, it cleared up and was quite nice. I guess i didn't bring the beautiful weather from florida with me. The cold and gloom didn't stop us from going out. Nope, instead we went shopping. There was a huge list of items that we could use, wanted to have, and of course needed. The first stop involved petsmart. We needed a crate to hold moby. After all, even if we acquired one of those signs that said service dog, it wouldn't do any good. I'm sure we would just be cleaning up excrement as our dog tries to poop and pee on everything he can find. It'll work out great exspecially if we continue to travel up to virginia like we plan to do. After all, we live in the vacation spot. When the beach is 30 minutes away, why would we vacation to the beach? Which brings me an interesting question where do park rangers go to get away from it all?
Anyways, the next stop was ikea to check out potential ideas and things for the new house. Ikea has some neat ideas, but only a few that we loved for our new house. We didn't spend too much there only like $150. We did however, walk away with some great ideas for a bookshelves that will fit in the corner of our house perfectly, so we shall return. From there, it was hitting the outlet mall potomac mills. Thats were all the fun began. All in all we probably spent close to $400 on things that we loved and needed. The majority of the items purchased were baby related. We managed to find quite a few good deals on the clothes that we purchased. Some for me, some for stacey, but most were for our lovely baby girl. We managed to get a few gifts as well. That night found us asleep rather soon. It's amazing how much shopping can drag the life out of you, not including your wallet as well.
The next day, we traveled to lowes and purchsed one of those tax rebate cards. After all it's like free money. 10% return on the amount put down, basically 100 dollars for every thousand. Of course they limited it to 4000 dollars/card but no limit on how many you bought. I wish i could say we took full advantage of those cards but we didn't. The card has already been put to good use as we purchased our refrigerator this past friday. It was the one thing that isn't included in the house that we would have to purchase. Speaking of the house, we were quite surprised at how little progress was made during the 4 work days we were gone. Not only was nothing really changed, they continued trimming out the windows that were wrong. Stacey was livid. What began as an irate call to our building contact person, ended when one of the upper management of adam homes called us. Rest assured things needed to be completed to move forward and get the inspections they needed instead of waiting to fix then getting the inspections. According to his estimate, 1 week to drywall, 10 days to complete drywall, and then 1 month to go. Which should put us into the house around the first week of may. I'm alittle more realistic and think it'll be closer to the end of may myself. But time will tell.
All in all a good trip. One thing that i'm very excited about that i acquired on my shopping trip was a kindle. Needless to say i totally love it, and the fact that i've picked up and have time to read again. I would love to say we purchased the ipad 2 that my wife wanted. But neither of use was willing to wait in line for 6 hours. There was a small line forming in best buy when we picked up my kindle. Needless to say now she has to wait until production catches up with the demand which should be about 5-6 weeks. But it'll come soon enough.
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